2015 | Foreign Official Immunity Under Domestic and International Law

Event Title

On the Existence of a Customary Rule Granting Functional Immunity to State Officials and Its Exceptions: Back to Square One

Presenter Information

Micaela Frulli
Mark Weisburd

Location

Duke Law School, Room 3043

Start Date

13-11-2015 9:10 AM

End Date

13-11-2015 9:55 AM

Description

Micaela Frulli is currently Aggregate Professor of International Law at the University of Florence, Italy. After receiving her Ph.D. in International Law at the University “Federico II” of Naples (2000), she was Jean Monnet Fellow in the Law Department of the European University Institute (2001-2002).

She has carried out extensive research in public international law, international criminal law, the law of international organizations, human rights law. In recent years she has focused on the following topics: Immunities of State officials suspected of International Crimes, State Immunity and Human Rights, Private Military Companies: Issues of Accountability.

Mark Weisburd, a native Arkansan, joined the Foreign Service after earning his undergraduate degree, and he served in East Pakistan/Bangladesh from 1971 to 1973. He resigned in 1973 to enter law school at Michigan, where he was a notes editor on the Michigan Law Review. From 1976 to 1981, he was an associate with the Washington, D.C., law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, his practice ranging from participation in the legal advisory team of the Constitutional Convention of the Northern Mariana Islands to pro bono first amendment work to defendants' securities and antitrust litigation. He teaches civil procedure, international law and a course on international human rights. He writes mainly in the area of international law.

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Nov 13th, 9:10 AM Nov 13th, 9:55 AM

On the Existence of a Customary Rule Granting Functional Immunity to State Officials and Its Exceptions: Back to Square One

Duke Law School, Room 3043

Micaela Frulli is currently Aggregate Professor of International Law at the University of Florence, Italy. After receiving her Ph.D. in International Law at the University “Federico II” of Naples (2000), she was Jean Monnet Fellow in the Law Department of the European University Institute (2001-2002).

She has carried out extensive research in public international law, international criminal law, the law of international organizations, human rights law. In recent years she has focused on the following topics: Immunities of State officials suspected of International Crimes, State Immunity and Human Rights, Private Military Companies: Issues of Accountability.

Mark Weisburd, a native Arkansan, joined the Foreign Service after earning his undergraduate degree, and he served in East Pakistan/Bangladesh from 1971 to 1973. He resigned in 1973 to enter law school at Michigan, where he was a notes editor on the Michigan Law Review. From 1976 to 1981, he was an associate with the Washington, D.C., law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, his practice ranging from participation in the legal advisory team of the Constitutional Convention of the Northern Mariana Islands to pro bono first amendment work to defendants' securities and antitrust litigation. He teaches civil procedure, international law and a course on international human rights. He writes mainly in the area of international law.