Jun 25, 2012The Immunity of State Officials Under The UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and TThe U.S. Supreme Court decided in Samantar v. Yousuf that claims of immunity by individual foreign officials in U.S. courts will be...
Jun 25, 2012The Dog that Caught the Car: Observations on the Past, Present, and Future Approaches of theThe Supreme Court’s decision in Samantar v. Yousuf vindicated the position of the State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser, which...
Jun 25, 2012Foreign Official Immunity After SamantarIn Samantar v. Yousuf, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) does not govern the...
Jun 25, 2012The “Common Law Regime” of Foreign Sovereign Immunity: The Actual Possession Rule in AdmIt has been a long-standing rule in admiralty that in order for a foreign sovereign to assert immunity in U.S. courts, the res that is...