
Keitner and Wuerth opened with some history on sovereign immunity and the role it has played in international law and international relations. “ Taking China to Court Over the Coronavirus,” The Lawfare Podcast (Jpodcast appearance with Scott R.

Chimène Keitner and Allison Peters, “ Private Lawsuits Against Nation-States Are Not the Way to Deal with America’s Cyber Threats,” Lawfare (June 15, 2020) and.Criminal Proceedings,” Just Security (Dec. Chimène Keitner, “ Deciphering the Mystery Subpoena Case: Corporate Claims to Foreign Sovereign Immunity from U.S.Ingrid Wuerth, “ Does President Trump Control Head-of-State Immunity Determinations in U.S.Ingrid Wuerth, “ An Art Museum Amendment to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act,” Lawfare (Jan.Ingrid Wuerth, “ Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act: Initial Analysis,” Lawfare (Sept.Chimène Keitner, “ The Common Law of Foreign Official Immunity,” The Green Bag (Autumn 2010).Prior to the session, the outside experts and study group organizers recommended the following pieces of background reading: Department of State and Ingrid Wuerth, a professor of law at Vanderbilt Law School and one of the reporters on sovereign immunity issues for the American Law Institute’s Fourth Restatement of U.S. To discuss this topic, the study group was joined by two outside experts: Chimène Keitner, a professor of law at the University of California, Hastings College of Law and former Counselor on International Law at the U.S. But what might adjusting these immunities in these circumstances mean for U.S. Recent debates in Congress over the possibility of holding China civilly liable over the coronavirus, allowing people to sue state sponsors of cybercrime, and potential civil liability for acts of terrorism have all implicated core questions of sovereign immunity, meaning the set of key international legal protections that the United States largely, but not entirely, implements through the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (“FSIA”).

20, 2020, the Congressional Study Group on Foreign Relations and National Security convened online to discuss the past, present, and future of sovereign immunity.
