Tort Law- Pennsylvania Abrogates Governmental Immunity, But Refuses to Abolish Sovereign Immunity

Constitutional mass torts: sovereign immunity and the human radiation experiments.

Sovereign immunity and health care: can government be trusted?

When government provides or arranges for health care, it is held to lower legal standards than private parties are, especially when liability is barred by "sovereign immunity". This paper examines sovereign immunity and its implications for health care quality by comparing private-sector and government accountability in several legal contexts. It then considers whether the law should be changed...

Immunity for immunizations: tort liability, biodefense, and Bioshield II.

Mandatory School Vaccinations: The Role of Tort Law

The United States is on the verge of a public health crisis. For decades, all 50 states have required that parents vaccinate their children against various diseases, including polio and measles, as a prerequisite to enrolling them in public schools [1]. While virtually all states have tailored their immunization statutes to exempt those with religious (and sometimes philosophical) objections to...

حق دادخواهی و مصونیت قضایی دولت ها: رأی دیوان بین المللی دادگستری در اختلاف آلمان و ایتالیا

The conflict between the rights of States as the primary subjects of international law on the one hand and the rights of individuals as the subsidiary subjects of this legal corpus on the other hand is crystallized in the twenty-first century. Among others, the conflict between the right of individuals to have access to judicial remedies and States immunity from national judicial jurisdiction i...