The theme of the Annual General Meeting of the Royal Netherlands Society of International Law (KNVIR) will be ‘State Immunity in Civil Proceedings. Comparative Notes and Critical Analysis’. Can immunity from jurisdiction of a foreign State regard private parties in civil proceedings in which the foreign State is not evenmentioned as a party to the proceedings? To what extent does customary international lawprovide for immunity of execution of assets belonging to a foreign State? And is the Netherlands in need of an immunity act?
Cathalijne van der Plas and Thom Dieben will present their paper ‘Immunity from jurisdiction in civil proceedings in which a foreign state is not named as a party’and Max van Leyenhorst will present his paper ‘Immunity from execution. A quest for the rule of (customary International) law’ followed by reflections by Jure Vidmar.