Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Orakhelashvili: Research Handbook on Jurisdiction and Immunities in International Law

Alexander Orakhelashvili (Univ. of Birmingham - Law) has published Research Handbook on Jurisdiction and Immunities in International Law (Edward Elgar Publishing 2015). Contents include:
  • Alexander Orakhelashvili, State Jurisdiction in International Law: Complexities of a Basic Concept
  • Cedric Ryngaert, The Concept of Jurisdiction in International Law
  • Sienho Yee, Universal Jurisdiction: Concept, Logic and Reality
  • Yoshifumi Tanaka, Jurisdiction of States and the Law of the Sea
  • Alexander Orakhelashvili, State Immunity from Jurisdiction between Law, Comity, and Ideology
  • J Craig Barker, Shared Foundations and Conceptual Differentiation in Immunities from Jurisdiction
  • Elizabeth Franey, Immunity from the Criminal Jurisdiction of National Courts
  • Alexander Orakhelashvili, The UK State Immunity Act 1978: History, Scope and Relation to International Law
  • Alexander Orakhelashvili, Treaties on State Immunity: the 1972 and 2004 Conventions
  • Richard Garnett, Foreign State Immunity: A Private International Law Analysis
  • Aurel Sari, The Status of Armed Forces in Public International Law: Jurisdiction and Immunity
  • Xiaodong Yang, Immunity from Execution
  • Francois Larocque, Torture, Jurisdiction and Immunity: Theories and Practices in Search of One Another
  • Robert Cryer, Immunities and International Criminal Tribunals
  • Alexander Orakhelashvili, Jurisdictional Immunity of International Organisations: from Abstract Functionality to Absolute Immunity