Re: NGO immunity from prosecution

[David Goodman <dgoodman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>]

I suspect that it would be relatively difficult to sucessfully sue or
force arbitration on any international organization, no matter what was in
a contract. (And analogously for any other governmental publication,
though there's always the Court of Claims or the state equivalent.)

On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Kimberly Parker wrote:

> I'm reviewing an IMF license and found a new wrinkle in immunity that I
> thought I'd share with this community.
>
> In this license (which is otherwise based on the Cox model license) the
> International Monetary Fund is claiming immunity from any judicial
> process.  I will quote the entire section below.
>
> I had to send this question up our review chain ladder as I'd never
> encountered this type of declaration before.  I can't imagine us ever
> suing IMF for breach of license, but it was still unusual.  The
> arbitration offerings are probably enough to keep us feeling sensible
> about this, but I thought I'd offer the statement here for discussion.
>
> --Kimberly Parker