Tams: A Dangerous Last Line of Defence – Or: A Roman Court Goes Lutheran

Christian J. Tams (Univ. of Glasgow - Law) has posted A Dangerous Last Line of Defence – Or: A Roman Court Goes Lutheran. Here's the abstract:

The paper comments on Decision 238/2014 of the Italian Constitutional Court, in which the Italian Constitutional Court addressed the tension between human rights and State immunity. Its focus is on the reasoning adopted by the Italian Constitutional Court, which relied on Italian 'foreign relations law' to avoid giving effect to the international legal rules on State immunity.