Research Handbook on Jurisdiction and Immunities in International Law

Edited by Alexander Orakhelashvili, Professor, School of Law, University of Birmingham, UK

• ContentsPreface viii1 State jurisdiction in international law: complexities of a basic concept 1Alexander Orakhelashvili2 The concept of jurisdiction in international law 37Cedric Ryngaert3 Universal jurisdiction: concept, logic and reality 53Sienho Yee4 State jurisdiction and the law of the sea 79Yoshifumi Tanaka5 State immunity from jurisdiction between law, comity and ideology 115Alexander Orakhelashvili6 Shared foundations and conceptual differentiation in immunities fromjurisdiction 141J. Craig Barker and Jenna R. Clift7 Immunity from the criminal jurisdiction of national courts 157Elizabeth Helen Franey and Emma J. Breeze8 The UK State Immunity Act 1978: history, scope and the relation tointernational law 193Alexander Orakhelashvili9 Treaties on State immunity: the 1972 and 2004 Conventions 211Alexander Orakhelashvili10 Foreign state immunity: a private international law analysis 229Richard Garnett11 The status of armed forces in public international law: jurisdiction andimmunity 245Aurel Sari12 Immunity from execution 295Xiaodong Yang13 Torture, jurisdiction and immunity: theories and practices in search of oneanother 337François Larocque14 Immunities and international criminal tribunals 371Robert Cryer and Albert Nell15 Jurisdictional immunity of international organizations: from abstractfunctionality to absolute immunity 403Alexander Orakhelashvili

‘There are few more fundamental, important, or pervasive topics in international law than jurisdiction and immunities. Clear, comprehensive, and balanced, this updated Research Handbook allows the reader to delve deeply into specific subjects and draw connections among seemingly disparate areas, providing the most up-to-date information regarding this active and constantly evolving field. There is no better survey of this critical subject.’