The Issue of Immunity of Private Actors Exercising Public Authority and the New Paradigm of International Law

Abstract

Summary 1. The changing image and structure of international law – 2. The exercise of public authority through delegation – 3. The question of state immunity in the context of hybridisation between public and private – 4. The content of the activity as a paradigm to guide the extension of state immunity – 5. The issue of limiting the immunity of delegated non state actors – 6. Conclusions