Abstract
This chapter provides a list of the sources, both international and national, of the law of State immunity and a brief survey of relevant treaties and projects for codification in existence prior to the adoption in 2004 of the UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and their Property (UNCSI). Accepting the sources of international law to be as summarized in Article 38(1) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), law-making international conventions are clearly the best source of the principles and rules relating to State immunity. Not until the twenty-first century was the law of State immunity accorded sufficient relevance for States to adopt an international convention dealing with the topic and for the issues which it raised to come before the ICJ.
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