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Immunity and Human Rights? A Bifurcated Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Rosanne van Alebeek
Rosanne van Alebeek*
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University of Amsterdam, Department of International Law
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International Human Rights Law, Foreign Sovereign Immunity, and National Courts
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 104 , 2010 , pp. 67 - 72
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2010

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3 Ferrini v. Germany, Case No. 5044/4, IDLC 19 (IT 2004), Appeal Decision, para. 58 (Mar. 11, 2004). See also Germany v. Mantelli and Others, Cass., May 29, 2008, n.14201, ILDC 1037. But see U.S. v. Tissino and Others, Cass., Feb. 25, 2009, n. 4461, ILDC 1262, for a possible change in approach.

4 Supra note 3.

5 Ferrini, supra note 3, at para. 9.1.

6 Siderman de Blake v. Republic of Argentina, 965 F.2d 699, 718 (9th Cir. 1992).

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15 Yousuf, 552 F.3d at 371.

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18 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg Judgment (1946), reprinted in 41 AJIL 172, 221 (1947).

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21 Jones v. Saudi Arabia, [2006] 1 AC 270 (H.L.) (appeal taken from EWCA Civ 1394).