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Foreign State Immunity. By the Australian Law Reform Commission (Report No. 24). Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service, 1984. Pp. xxiv, 168. Index.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

H. Scott Fairley
H. Scott Fairley*
Affiliation:
University of Windsor
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 79 , Issue 4 , October 1985 , pp. 1100 - 1102
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1985

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References

1 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, 28 U.S.C. §§1330, 1602–1611 (1982); State Immunity Act 1978, ch. 33 (UK) [hereinafter cited as SI A (UK)]; State Immunity Act 1982, ch. 95 (Can.) [hereinafter cited as SIA (Can.)].

2 28 U.S.C. §1605(a)(2) (1982); SIA §5 (Can.).

3 SIA §§3, 4, 7, 8, 9 and 11 (UK).

4 Continued flexibility in the statutory scheme in the face of new international trends, together with the perceived impracticality of an exhaustive definition, influenced both the U.S. and the Canadian preferences for generality rather than specificity. See for the United States and Canada, respectively, H.R. Rep. No. 1487, 94th Cong., 2d Sess. (1976); H.C. Standing Comm. on Justice and Legal Affairs, Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence, 59:22 (Feb. 2, 1982).

5 28 U.S.C. § 1603(d) (1982).

6 See, e.g., Brower, Bistline, & Loomis, The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 in Practice, 73 AJIL 200, 204-05 (1979)Google Scholar.

7 28 U.S.C. § 1610(a)(2) (1982).

8 SIA §13(4) (UK); SIA §11 (Can.).