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Remarks by Michael J. Edney

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Michael J. Edney
Michael J. Edney*
Affiliation:
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Washington, D.C
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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. 64 - 67
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2010

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References

1 Verlinden B.V. v. Cent. Bank of Nigeria, 461 U.S. 480, 487-88 (1983).

2 Id. at 488.

3 See, e.g., Nat’l City Bank of New York v. Republic of China, 348 U.S. 356 (1955).

4 See Republic of Austria v. Altmann, 541 U.S. 677, 690 (2004).

5 Verlinden, 461 U.S. at 488.

6 See Schooner Exchange v. McFaddon, 11 U.S. 116, 137 (1812).

7 State Immunity Act, 1978, c. 33, § 15.

8 See State Immunity Act, R.S.C., ch. S-18, § 15 (1985) (Canada); State Immunity Act § 17 (1979) (Singapore); State Immunity Ordinance § 16 (1981) (Pakistan); Foreign States Immunities Act § 16 (1981) (South Africa).

9 See generally Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain, 542 U.S. 692 (2004).

10 Tenney v. Brandhove, 341 U.S. 367, 373-74 (1951).

11 Dole Food Co. v. Patrickson, 538 U.S. 468, 479 (2003); see also Altmann, 541 U.S. at 696.

12 Nat’l City Bank of New York, 348 U.S. at 362.

13 See Altmann, 541 U.S. at 729-30 (Kennedy, J., dissenting) (immunity principles should account for how foreign states “shape their conduct” through diplomatic exchanges).