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Archive: October 2016 (2 Posts)

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New Report on Laws of Foreign Governments Lifting Sovereign Immunity

Posted by: Kelly Buchanan

The following is a guest post by Luis Acosta, chief of one of the Law Library’s foreign, comparative, and international law divisions.  Luis also recently wrote a post about a report on education as a constitutional right in foreign countries. The doctrine of sovereign immunity, or state immunity, is an international law principle that limits …