Intro -- Immunity of International Organizations -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- List of Contributors -- 1 International Organizations: The Untouchables? -- 2 Immunity of International Organizations: The Work of the International Law Commission -- 3 Do International Organizations Enjoy Immunityunder Customary International Law? -- 4 Should the 2004 UN State Immunity Convention Serve as a Model/Starting Point for a Future UN Convention on the Immunity of InternationalOrganizations? -- 5 Immunity of the United Nations: Practice and Challenges -- 6 Privileges and Immunities of the World Health Organization: Practice and Challenges -- 7 The Privileges and Immunities of the World Intellectual Property Organization: Practice and Challenges -- 8 Immunities of the European Union -- 9 Immunities of International Organizations: A NATO View -- 10 The Immunity of International Organizations in the United Kingdom -- 11 Austrian Courts and the Immunity of International Organizations -- 12 Belgian Courts and the Immunity of International Organizations -- 13 Italian Courts and the Immunity of International Organizations -- 14 The Jurisdictional Immunity of International Organizations in the Netherlands and the View from Strasbourg -- 15 To What Extent Can and Should National Courts’ Fill the Accountability Gap’? -- 16 Beyond Srebrenica and Haiti: Exploring Alternative Remedies against the United Nations -- Afterwords -- Index.
Immunity for international organizations and their staff, while long considered necessary to their functioning, has fallen under scrutiny and criticism in practice. These contributions, originally prepared for a conference held at Leiden University in June 2013, are re-published here in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the International Organizations Law Review..