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Immunity For Foreign Officials: Possibly Too Much And Confusing As Well, Barry E. Carter
Immunity For Foreign Officials: Possibly Too Much And Confusing As Well, Barry E. Carter
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In his thoughtful presentation, David Stewart observes from his daily experience that the law of international immunities is a "rather complex body of rules." In analyzing immunity issues, one needs to take into account treaties, laws, and/or cases that include, among others, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, diplomatic and consular immunity, the case law regarding head of state immunity, and international organization law. In addition, there is pending the new UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and their Property. Mr. Stewart also posits a general conclusion that in recent decades the general trend has been to limit the scope …
Book Review Of Luc Reydams, Universal Jurisdiciton: International And Municipal Legal Perspectives (2003), David Luban
Book Review Of Luc Reydams, Universal Jurisdiciton: International And Municipal Legal Perspectives (2003), David Luban
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Some crimes are so odious that committing them makes one hostis generis humani (an enemy of all mankind). Intuitively, the idea of a universal enemy implies the possibility of universal criminal jurisdiction (UCJ). As Luc Reydams notes, the notion of UCJ originated in the 16th century with Covarruvias, although the idea is better known through Grotius's famous assertion that every state has jurisdiction over "gross violations of the law of nature and of nations, done to other states and subjects" (De Jure Belli ac Pacis, AC Campbell trans., II.20.VII). For many years piracy was the only recognized UCJ crime, not …