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Head of State Immunity Tag

27 Nov

[Miranda Lalla is a Canadian-Italian jurist and an Advanced LL.M. candidate at Leiden Law School’s Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies] In the 2002 Arrest Warrant case, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled in favor of upholding the immunity of the sitting Congolese Foreign Minister from the jurisdiction of Belgian Courts. The dissenting Judge Al-Khasawneh urged for an interpretation of the customary...

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19 Jul

[Atul Alexander is an Assistant Professor of Law at the The WB National University of Juridical Sciences.] The ILC Draft Article 7 on the Immunity of State Officials from foreign criminal jurisdiction was the source of controversy in the ILC in the context of the exception to the customary nature of ‘immunity’ rationae materia for the acts committed by State officials. The ILC’s approach to exempt six...

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14 Feb

[Dr Caroline Sweeney is a lecturer in International Human Rights Law with a particular research interest in the intersection between international law and international politics in Syria. She has published on accountability for international crimes committed in Syria since 2011.] On 13 January 2022, the Higher Regional Court in Koblenz, Germany convicted Anwar Raslan, a former Syrian intelligence officer, of the...

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01 Nov

Events Chile Eboe-Osuji on Immunity Before the ICC: Please join us for the third annual International Law and Global Justice Lecture at the Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario. Former President of the International Criminal Court, Chile Eboe-Osuji, will present ‘Immunity before International Courts: How There Never Was’ via Zoom webinar on November 9th from 12:30–2:00 pm. Dr. Eboe-Osuji will discuss the debate around whether heads of...

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