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Foreign Sovereign Immunity During the New Nationalisation Wave (BLI Jan 10) |
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| Abstract The global financial crisis of 2008?2009 greatly increased economic intervention by both industrialised and non-industrialised states. States took partial or total public ownership of many formerly private enterprises, particularly in the financial, insurance and automobile sectors, through nationalisations, expropriations, bailouts, recapitalisations, investments and asset protection schemes. These changes have resulted in the creation of many new state enterprises. This article focuses on foreign sovereign immunity considerations with respect to recent state economic intervention. The author traces the historical development of state immunity law and analyses the scope of the US Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, state immunity approaches in other jurisdictions and multilateral state immunities treaties. The author posits that recent state economic intervention is likely to result in more foreign sovereign immunity issues surfacing in international transactions and litigation. The article describes some of the legal implications |
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