Immunities in the Age of Global Constitutionalism

The law of immunity of states, of international organisations, and of public officials is one of the most important and most controversial topics of international law. The book takes up new trends and challenges in this field and assesses them within the framework of global constitutionalism and multilevel governance.Contains chapters in both English and French.

Anne Peters, (1964) Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg and Professor at the Universities of Heidelberg (Germany) and Basel (Switzerland). Member of the Venice Commission. Her main research topic is public international law, especially constitutionalisation, global governance, human rights and animal law.Evelyne Lagrange, Professor of Public Law at the University Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne. Her main field of research is international law and comparative law, with a special emphasis on the law of international organizations. She has been active in French-German academic encounters.Stefan Oeter, (1958) Professor for Public Law, European Community Law and Public International Law at the University of Hamburg. President of the Historical Commission of the International Society for Military Law and the Laws of War. His research covers especially minority rights and IHL.Christian Tomuschat, (1936) Professor emeritus of Public International Law and European Law at the Humboldt University in Berlin and a former member of the UN Human Rights Committee and the UN International Law Commission. He has published extensively in public international law.