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44 Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 1141 (2011)
Foreign Official Immunity after Samantar: A United States Government Perspective

handle is hein.journals/vantl44 and id is 1157 raw text is: VANDERBILT JOURNAL of TRANSNATIONAL LAW VOLUME 44 NOVEMBER2011 NUMBER 5 Foreign Official Immunity After Samantar: A United States Government Perspective Harold Hongju Koh* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. THE WORLD BEFORE SAMANTAR......................... 1142 II. SAMANTAR AND ITS IMPLICATIONS .................. 1146 III. THE EMERGING POST-SAMANTAR PROCESS ............ 1149 A. Five Tenets of Official Immunity Practice......... 1152 B. Non-Samantar Status Issues .... ............ 1155 C. Non-Samantar Procedural Issues............ 1158 D. The Sound of Silence ........ ............. 1159 I am delighted to speak here at Vanderbilt regarding the U.S. Government's perspective on Foreign Official Immunity after Samantar v. Yousuf.' In the Samantar case, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that the immunity of foreign government officials Legal Adviser, United States Department of State; Martin R. Flug '55 Professor of International Law, Yale Law School (on leave). This is a lightly edited and footnoted version of a keynote speech delivered on February 4, 2011 at the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law Symposium on the Samantar case. I am grateful to Professors Ingrid Wuerth and Michael Newton and the Journal's editors for their kind hospitality during my visit to Nashville, and to my Counselors on International Law Professors Sarah Cleveland and Bill Dodge and to my colleagues at the Legal Adviser's Office- Kimberly Gahan, Mary Catherine Malin, David Pozen, Jonathan Schwartz, Aaron Zelinsky, David Zionts, and especially Paige Chabora-for their outstanding support. 1. 130 S. Ct. 2278 (2010). 1141

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