The United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property
A Commentary
Edited by Roger O'Keefe and Christian J. Tams
Author Information
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.
Contributors:
Chester Brown, Associate Professor of Law, University of Sydney
Jean D'Aspremont, Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Amsterdam Centre for International Law, University of Amsterdam
Silvia Borelli, Director of Research, University of Bedfordshire
James Devaney, University of Glasgow
Andrew Dickinson, Professor in Private International Law, Sydney Law School
Joanne Foakes, Associate Fellow, International Law, Chatham House
Tarcisio Gazzini, University of Amsterdam
Tom Grant, Wolfson College, Cambridge University
Douglas Guilfoyle, Lecturer in Law, University College London
Gerhard Hafner, Professor of International Law and International Relations at the University of Vienna and Chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property
Simon Olleson, Thirteen Old Square Chambers, London
Kate Parlett, Freshfields, Paris
Jörg Philipp Terhechte, University of Hamburg
Tobias Thienel, Walther Schücking Institute of International Law, Christian Albrecht University of Kiel
Antonios Tzanakopoulos, Lecturer in International Law, University of Glasgow
Rosanne Van Alebeek, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Amsterdam
Stephan Wittich, Assistant Professor of International Law, University of Vienna