FOREIGN SOVEREIGN IMMUNITIES ACT OF 1976 WITH AMENDMENTS: A LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF PUB. L. NO. 94-583.Manz, William H.Item #: 4960 Pages: 2v. Published: Getzville; William S. Hein & Co., Inc.; 2000. Subjects: CRIMINAL JUSTICE, FOREIGN POLICY, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, LEGISLATIVE HISTORY This Act was designed to provide comprehensive clarificationas to when parties had recourse to the courts when asserting claims against foreign states. Additional amendments since the 1976 Act have been included,such as the 1988 amendment which extended to commercial arbitration, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, and an Act to make technical corrections to the U.S. Code relating to lawsuits against terrorist states.
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