Jurisdictional Immunities of States and International Organizations

Edward Chukwuemeke Okeke is an international law scholar and practitioner, admitted to the Bar of the State of New York. He has extensive experience in international organizations, having served in the Institutional Administration Practice Group of the Legal Vice Presidency at the World Bank, the Office of Legal Affairs of UNESCO, and the Office of the Legal Counsel and the Administrative Law Unit of the United Nations. He is the recipient of the Otto L. Walter Distinguished Writing Award from New York Law School and the Albert S. Pergam International Law Writing Competition Award from the New York State Bar Association. He has been published in Arbitration International, and has contributed two chapters in The Conventions on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations and its Specialized Agencies: A Commentary (Oxford, Edited by August Reinisch 2016).

Foreword

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. State Immunity

Chapter 1. Historical Development and Rationale

Chapter 2. Overview of Sources of Law of State Immunity

Chapter 3. Scope of State Immunity

Chapter 4. Competing or Conflicting Norms, and Related but Different Doctrine

Part II. Immunity of International Organizations

Chapter 5. Nature of International Organizations and Purpose of their Immunity

Chapter 6. Legal Status of International Organizations

Chapter 7. Sources of the Law of Immunity of International Organizations

Chapter 8. Determination and Scope of Immunity of International Organizations

Part III. Cross-cutting and Confused Concepts

Chapter 9. Similarities and Differences between Immunities

Chapter 10. Conclusion

Index