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The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act: 'Bedlam' Redux

By Robert W. Ludwig (September 22, 2017, 10:55 AM EDT) -- After four decades attempting to apply the commercial-activity exception of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 ("FSIA"), the "most significant" exception to sovereign immunity, Republic of Argentina v. Weltover Inc., 504 U.S. 607 (1992), indeed the ratio legis of the act, no court has ever decided the meaning of the heart of the exception, and with it the FSIA....

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