For all or for some? Functional immunity of State officials before the International Law Commission / Zoom Out
Functional immunity of State officials before the International Law Commission: The ‘who’ and the ‘what’
1. Introduction Riccardo Pisillo Mazzeschi offers an interesting proposal to merge ratione personae and ratione materiae immunity for current and former state officials from the jurisdiction of foreign states. He argues that the traditional distinction between these forms of immunity ‘demands a critical review’ because, in contemporary international practice, both types of immunity are rooted...