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Should Sovereign Immunity be Governed by Reciprocity?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Alona E. Evans*
Affiliation:
Wellesley College

Abstract

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Third Session
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1958

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References

1 National City Bank of New York v. Republic of China, 348 U. S. 356 (1955); digested in 49 A.J.I.L. 405 (1955).

2 15 Stat. 243; see also 36 Stat. 1135, 62 Stat. 976.

3 Swiss Federal Railways v. U. S., 112 F. Supp. 357(1953); Marcos v. U. S., 102 F. Supp. 547 (1952); of. Johnson v. Turner, 19 Lawyers Journal 284 (1954); 1954 Int. Law Rep. 103.

4 43 Stat. 1113.

5 Lopez v. U. S., 102 F. Supp. 870 (1952); Maiorano v. U. S., 111 F. Supp. 817 (1952); of. U. S. v. The Australia Star, 172 F. 2d 472 (1949).

6 Lauterpacht, Hersch, “The Problem of Jurisdictional Immunities of Foreign States,” 28 Brit. Year Book of Int. Law 220 (1951)Google Scholar; Garcia-Mora, M. R., “The Doctrine of Sovereign Immunity of Foreign States and Its Recent Modifications,” 42 Va. Law Q. 335 (1955)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 3-4 Elizabeth II, ch. 21.

8 Lauro v. U. S., 162 F. 2d 32 (1947); Eustathiou and Co. v. U. S., 154 F. Supp. 515 (1957).

9 U. S. and France v. Dollfus Mieg et Cie., S.A., and Bank of England, [1952] A.C. 582; 1952 Int. Law Rep. 163; digested in 46 A.J.I.L. 576 (1952).

10 Investigation of World Arrangements with Relation to the Production, Transformation, Refining and Distribution of Petroleum, 13 F.R.D. 280; 1952 Int. Law Rep. 197; of. U. S. v. Deutsches Kalisyndikat Gesellschaft, 31 F. 2d 199 (1929).

11 Floridi v. Sovexportfilm, 1 Foro Italiano 796 (1952); 49 A.J.I.L. 98 (1955); Tani v. Russian Trade Delegation in Italy, 1 Foro Italiano 71 (1958), I, 855; 1948 Annual Digest and Reports of Public International Law Cases 141. of. Dralle v. Republic of Czechoslovakia, OJZ, 5 (1950), 341; 1950 Int. Law Rep. 155.

12 Lauterpacht, loc. cit. note 6 above. This view seems to be implicit in the original opinion in The Pesaro, 277 Fed. 473 (1921).

13 Bolivia v. Italian Association for Aeronautical Exports, Foro Italiano 72 (1949), I, 460; 1948 Annual Digest 133; Castigilioni v. Yugoslavia, 1 Foro Italiano 796 (1952); 1952 Int. Law Rep. 203; “Socobel” v. Greek State, Rev. Critique de Droit Int. Privé 111 (1952); 1951 Int. Law Rep. 3.