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State Immunity: An Analytical and Prognostic View. By Gamal Moursi Badr. The Hague, Boston, Lancaster: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1984. Pp. viii, 243. Appendixes. Index. Table of Cases. Dfl.120; £30.50; $46.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1986

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References

1 S.S. Lotus (Fr. v. Turk.), 1927 PCIJ, ser. A, No. 10 (Judgment of Sept. 7).

2 “[T]he first and foremost restriction imposed by international law upon a State is that. . . it may not exercise its power in any form in the territory of another State.” Id. at 18, quoted in the book under review at p. 159 n.43.

3 S.S. Lotus, 1927 PCIJ, ser. A, No. 10, at 23.

4 Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976, 28 U.S.C. §§1330, 1602–1611 (1982).

5 The Schooner Exchange v. M’Faddon, 11 U.S. (7 Cranch) 116 (1812).

6 Id. at 144.

7 See, e.g., de Vattel, E., The Law of Nations 38 (Fenwick, C. trans. 1916)Google Scholar.

8 Compare Restatement of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States (Revised) §403(3) (Tent. Draft No. 2, 1981) with id. §403(3) (Tent. Draft No. 7, 1986).