Topic
State Sovereign Immunity
27 published works
China Justice Observer
China Designates Beijing Court for ICSID Arbitral Awards
By Publisher
In a long-awaited procedural update, China has designated the Beijing No. 4 Intermediate People's Court as the competent domestic court for the recognition and enforcement of awards issued by the…
Conflict of Laws .net
Book Review: Andrew Dickinson and Alexander Thompson, The State Immunity Act 1978 (OUP, 2025)
This review concentrates principally on the private international law dimensions of Andrew Dickinson and Alexander Thompson’s The State Immunity Act 1978. Although state immunity is fundamentally a subject of public…
EJIL: Talk!
Location, Location, Location: The UK Supreme Court’s Judgment in Shehabi v. Bahrain
In August 2022, I co-authored a post on the English case of Al-Masarir v. Saudi Arabia [2022] EWHC 2199, where Knowles J held that Saudi Arabia had no immunity under…
UK Human Rights Blog
The Weekly Round Up: Afghan data breach, Palestine Action appeal, protest rights and state immunity
By Sascha Lavin
In the news Parliamentary report on the Afghan data breach On Thursday, the House of Commons Defence Select Committee (DSC) published a report which found that a serious data breach…
Undergraduate Laws Blog
Registration without execution: State immunity, ICSID awards and the UK Supreme Court
This blog has been contributed by Dr Manos Maganaris, Module Convenor for Conflict of laws. In The Kingdom of Spain v Infrastructure Services Luxembourg S.à.r.l. and another; Republic of Zimbabwe…
NUALS Law Journal
Emergency Arbitration and State Immunity in India – Evaluating DIAC’s Framework in Sovereign Disputes
By Nualslj
Ojas Sharma I. Introduction Delhi International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) has been an outcome of extensive experience within the Indian legal fraternity owing to the constant demand of an Indianized system…
China Justice Observer
China’s SPC Issues Foreign State Immunity Case Guidelines
By Publisher
On 26 Mar. 2025, China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) released the “Notice on Procedural Matters for Civil Cases Involving Foreign State Immunity” (hereinafter the “Notice”, 关于涉外国国家豁免民事案件相关程序事项的通知), which provides unified guidance…
Global Workplace Insider
Employment Tribunal claims and Sovereign Immunity
In The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia (Cultural Bureau) v Ms A Alhayali the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) considered the situations in which embassies and other diplomatic missions can claim…
ContractsProf Blog
Texas Supreme Court Addresses State Sovereign Immunity and Construction Contracts
In 2014, Texas Southern University (TSU) executed a contract with Pepper-Lawson/Horizon International Group (PLH) on a project to construct student housing. The contract required completion by August 31, 2015, subject…
Litigation Finance Journal
Correction Regarding LCM-Funded Claim Against Polish Government
By John Freund
A previous article covering mining company GreenX’s claim against the Polish government, funded by LCM, suggested that LCM and GreenX are to be awarded over €700MM from the Polish government.…