The United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property

Roger O'Keefe is a Senior Lecturer in Law and the Deputy Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge, as well as a Fellow and College Lecturer in Law at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is the author of The Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict (CUP, 2006) as well as of several articles on the immunities of states.Christian J. Tams is Professor of International Law at the University of Glasgow (U.K.). He is a qualified lawyer in Germany (admitted 2005) and holds LL.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cambridge. His research in international law focuses on investment protection, the role of international courts and tribunals, and the law of State responsibility. In addition to his academic work, he has advised states in proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). He is a member of the German Court of Arbitration for Sports and of the ILA Committee on the Use of Force, and has held visiting appointments at universities in China, France and Lithuania. He is an editor of, inter alia, The Convention on the Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property: A Commentary and The Development of International Law by the International Court of Justice. Antonios Tzanakopoulos is a University Lecturer in Public International Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Anne's College. Prior to that he was a Lecturer in Public International Law at University College London. He has taught at the Universities of Oxford and Glasgow. He studied law in Athens, New York, and Oxford. Antonios is a qualified lawyer with the Athens Bar in Greece, Associate Editor for the Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts, and collaborateur scientifique of the Hellenic Institute for International and Foreign Law.

The Commentary edited by O'Keefe and Tams represents a useful tool in offering a quick response to the queries that an interpretation of the provisions might raise. The propos that The Commentary aims to clarify and not complicate the issues is maintained and the book constitutes a valuable contribution for scholars and practitioners.

• General introduction ; Historical Introduction ; Preamble ; Article 1 ; Article 2(1)(a) and (b) ; Article 2(1)(c), (2) and (3) ; Article 3 ; Article 4 ; Article 5 ; Article 6 ; Article 7 ; Article 8 ; Article 9 ; Introduction to Part III ; Article 10 ; Article 11 ; Article 12 ; Article 13 ; Article 14 ; Article 15 ; Article 16 ; Article 17 ; Article 18 ; Article 19 ; Article 20 ; Article 21 ; Article 22 ; Article 23 ; Article 24 ; Article 25 ; Article 26 ; Article 27 ; Article 28 ; Article 29 ; Article 30 ; Article 31 ; Article 32 ; Article 33