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State Immunity: Austria*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

I. Seidl-Hohenveldern
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Like all other international customary law, international customary law on state immunity is adopted into Austrian domestic law in virtue of Article 9 of the Austrian Federal Constitution, which reads: “The generally recognized rules of International Law are held to be component parts of the Federal Law”.

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Netherlands Yearbook of International Law , Volume 10 , December 1979 , pp. 97 - 109
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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press 1979

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References

1. Seidl-Hohenveldern, I., “Relation of International Law to Internal Law in Austria”, 49 AJIL (1955) p. 451 et seq.CrossRefGoogle Scholar, idem, “Transformation or Adoption of International Law into Municipal Law”, 12 ICLQ (1963) pp. 88–124, at p. 93 et seq.Google Scholar

2. Peaslee, A.S., Constitutions of Nations, vol. 1, 2nd ed. (The Hague: Nijhoff 1956) p. 108.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3. Austrian Reichsgesetzblatt No. 110/1895, Michlmayr, E. and Stohanzl, R., Jurisdiktionsnorm und Zivilprozessordnung, 3rd ed. (Vienna: Manz 1973) p. 5Google Scholar. See also Seidl-Hohenveldern, , Austrian-American Private International Law (Dobbs Ferry N.Y.: Oceana 1963) p. 98Google Scholar and text at n. 13 infra.

4. Law of 1 August 1895, Austrian Reichsgesetzblatt No. 111/1895, Michlmayr and Stohanzl, op.cit., p. 186, Seidl-Hohenveldern, op.cit., in n. 3 pp. 100–101.

5. Michlmayr and Stohanzl, op.cit., p. 188. See Supreme Court, 6 August 1958, Neustein v. Republic of Indonesia infra n. 29.

6. Supreme Court, 15 March 1921 infra n. 19.

7. Austrian Bundesgesetzblatt No. 432/1976, 11 ILM (1972) p. 470.

8. 240 UNTS p. 314.

9. Supreme Court, 10 May 1950, Dralle v. Republic of Czechoslovakia, 17 ILR p. 155, Official Collection SZ XXIII, No. 143.

10. Supreme Court, 10 February 1961, 40 ILR p. 73, at p. 78, 84 Juristische Blätter (1962) p. 43.Google Scholar

11. Supreme Court, 19 January 1962, 38 ILR p. 160, 84 Juristische Blätter (1962) p. 271.Google Scholar

12. Administrative Court, 27 March 1958, 86 Clunet (1959) p. 834, Official Collection No. 4615(A). On these problems see further Seidl-Hohenveldern, , “Austria” in Lauterpacht, E. and Collier, J.G. eds., Individual Rights and the State in Foreign Affairs, an International Compendium. (New York: Praeger Publishers 1977) p. 43.Google Scholar

13. Constitutional Court, 14 October 1970, 99 Clunet (1972) p. 650, 94 Juristische Blätter (1972) p. 37.Google Scholar

14. Austrian Bundesgesetzblatt No. 217/1971.

15. Supreme Court, 28 April 1971, 101 Clunet (1974) p. 630, Official Collection SZ XLIV, No. 56.

16. See supra n. 9, but see also n. 25.

17. Supreme Court, 10 May 1950, 17 ILR p. 155, at p. 156.

18. E.g., Supreme Court, 2 June 1958, Koh-i-Noor L. & C. Hardtmuth v. Koh-i-Noor Tuzkarna L. & C. Hardtmuth, Official Collection SZ XXXI No. 83, 26 ILR p. 40.

19. Supreme Court, 15 March 1921, 1 AD (1919–1921) p. 291, Official Collection SZ III No. 32.

20. Supreme Court, 11 September 1928, 4 AD (1927–1928) p. 178, Official Collection SZ X, No. 177.

21. See supra n. 9.

22. 17 ILR p. 155, at p. 163.

23. See Seidl-Hohenveldern, op.cit., in n. 3 p. 112.

24. 17 ILR p. 155, at p. 166.

25. Official Collection SZ II, No. 1, reported also in the Dralle case report in 17 ILR pp. 156–157.

26. Supreme Court, 10 February 1961, 84 Juristische Blätter (1962) p. 63Google Scholar, 91 Clunet (1964) p. 142, 40 ILR p. 73 et seq. See Herndl, K., “Zur Frage der Staatenimmunität” (The Problem of State Immunity) 84 Juristische Blätter (1962) p. 15–25.Google Scholar

27. See supra n. 11.

28. Supreme Court, 25 June 1964, 86 Juristische Blätter (1964) pp. 5–7Google Scholar, 94 Clunet (1967) p. 914, Official Collection SZ XXXVII, No. 94.

29. Supreme Court, 6 August 1958, Case No. 6 Ob 126/58. commented on by Seidl-Hohenveldern, “Neue Entwicklungen im Rechte der Staatenimmunität” (New Developments in the Law of State Immunities) in Festschrift G. Beitzke, ed., Sandrock, O. (Berlin-New York: W. de Gruyter 1979) p. 1098.Google Scholar

30. Supreme Court, 29 April 1970, Steinmetz v. Hungarian People's Republic, decision No. 5 Ob 56/70 commented on by Seidl-Hohcnveldern, loc.cit, in n. 29 p. 1092 et seq.

31. Treaty of 31 October 1964, Austrian Bundesgesetzblatt No. 293/1967, 605 UNTS p. 3, Lillich, R. and Weston, B., International Claims, Their Settlement by Lump Sum Agreements, vol. 2 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia 1975) p. 305Google Scholar, on this treaty see also Seidl-Hohenveldern, , “The Valuation of Nationalized Property in Austria” in Lillich, R. ed., Valuation of Nationalized Property, (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia 1972), vol. I pp. 80, 83.Google Scholar

32. Seidl-Hohenveldern, , “The Impact of Public International Law on Conflict of Law Rules on Corporations”, 123 Hague Recueil (1968 I) pp. 1–116, at p. 70Google Scholar. See also Supreme Court, 3 February 1954, Danuvia Feinmechanische und Werkzeugfabrik Nationalunternehmen v. Seiberth, 21 ILR p. 38 and comments thereon by Seidl-Hohenveldern, , 4 AJCL (1955) pp. 242–245.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

33. Supreme Court, 14 February 1963, 15 Österreichische Juristenzeitung (1963) p. 295Google Scholar, No. 210; 94 Clunet (1967) p. 915.

34. Globocnik-Vojka v. Republic of Austria, Supreme Court, 14 May 1958, Case No. 1 Ob. 197/58.

35. See supra n. 28.

36. Supreme Court, 21 January 1965, Official Collection SZ XXXVIII, No. 10, 94 Clunet (1967) p. 916.

37. See supra n. 25.

38. See supra n. 19.

39. Administrative Court, 13 January 1954, 83 Clunet (1956) p. 86, 21 ILR p. 101, Official Collection No. 869 (F).

40. Vienna Court of Appeals, 6 November 1952, 8 Österreichische Juristenzeitung (1953) p. 21, 19 ILR p. 211.Google Scholar

41. See infra n. 43.

42. Spruth, B., Gerichtsbarkeit über fremde Staaten (Jena: G. Fischer 1929), at p. 94.Google Scholar

43. 40 ILR p. 78, see also supra n. 26.

44. See supra n. 29.

45. Transcript of the judgment p. 8.

46. Ibid., p. 10.