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4 - Fundamental Change in International Law

State Immunity and State-Owned Entities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2021

Mihaela Maria Barnes
Affiliation:
Lauterpacht Centre for International Law
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Chapter four has a dual purpose: it firstly demonstrates how the increased participation of States in economic activities through their SOEs, has fundamentally changed international law; and secondly, it analyses some of the unique challenges posed by the doctrine of sovereign immunity to the regulation of SOEs. In this context, sovereign immunity is viewed as a unique challenge because if a SOE pleads immunity, a domestic court could be barred from either adjudicating the dispute in question, or from enforcing a judgment that has been obtained against a SOE. A plea of immunity could thus leave victims without a method to access justice, or without an effective remedy if the judgment that has been obtained cannot be enforced. With a focus on immunity from adjudication, the chapter looks into key issues such as the difference between acts jure imperii and acts jure gestionis, the process of assimilating SOEs into the State and some of the key exceptions to State immunity applicable to SOE such as the commercial transaction exception; the non-commercial tort exception and asks next whether there is a human rights exception to State immunity.

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State-Owned Entities and Human Rights
The Role of International Law
, pp. 152 - 201
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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