Thank you so much, Melissa! Can’t wait to descend on Hawaii with all the international law folks in January!

For more info, including more publications, teaching interests, and materials, see my FAR form and/or website: www.haleysanderson.com

I’m looking forward to discussing “The Sovereignty of Personal Jurisdiction” and much more in the coming months!

I’m a proceduralist and political theorist, and I’m currently an Academic Fellow at Columbia Law. My scholarship primarily examines the concept of sovereignty—where it came from, how it shapes legal doctrine today, and what role it ought to play in law.

(Also so sorry to everyone for the random screenshots as I read for a project on the development of sovereign immunity...)

I tend to conceptually prefer the bifurcated approach myself because it allows us to reason about if and when immunity might be appropriate, but that's a topic for another paper!

It's also especially enlightening to see that the unified model—which renders immunity analytically inert—is the one preferred by this important figure in international criminal law.

I describe that as a unified approach, and I map these onto Ann Woolhandler's discretion and legality models of US executive immunity.

I've found the legality/unified model puzzling, so it's helpful to see it adopted in book-length treatment.

Perhaps most importantly though, the book illustrates a particular understanding of immunity that's relevant to both international and domestic law. Rather than treating responsibility and immunity as separate questions (a bifurcated approach), the book essentially says: if responsible, no immunity.

I applaud the book for tackling the urgent question of accountability. I also raise questions about whether it can live up to its aims, given the absence of central legal questions and the sometimes superficial treatment of history.

"End of Immunity" by Judge Eboe-Osuji (former ICC President) is an interesting, provocative, and at-times frustrating work advancing his longstanding view that customary international law doesn't recognize immunity for heads of State charged by international courts with international crimes.