The Privileges and Immunities of International Organizations in Domestic Courts
August Reinisch
Abstract
International organizations have increasingly been involved in litigation before domestic courts. In this context, a host of legal issues has become relevant, including the domestic legal personality and the privileges and immunities of international organizations. Due to the variety of relevant legal sources applicable and legal cultures prevailing, domestic courts have dealt with these issues in different ways. At the same time, some of them have engaged in transnational judicial ‘dialogue’ with other domestic courts and with international courts on these questions. The contributions to this ... More
International organizations have increasingly been involved in litigation before domestic courts. In this context, a host of legal issues has become relevant, including the domestic legal personality and the privileges and immunities of international organizations. Due to the variety of relevant legal sources applicable and legal cultures prevailing, domestic courts have dealt with these issues in different ways. At the same time, some of them have engaged in transnational judicial ‘dialogue’ with other domestic courts and with international courts on these questions. The contributions to this book analyse the relevant domestic case-law from a comparative perspective. The contributors, who are leading experts familiar with legal systems in North America, Latin America, East Asia, South Asia, and Europe, have provided a wide range of jurisdictions and try to uncover to what extent they engage on a transnational judicial dialogue on international organizations.
Keywords:
international organizations,
privileges and immunities,
legal personality,
transnational judicial dialogue,
domestic courts,
international legal system,
international institutions
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199679409 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2013 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199679409.001.0001 |
