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Student Project: Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act: Secondary Sources

A research guide on the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, focusing on its creation and legal implication.

Books

Foreign Affairs Litigation in United States Courts

ISBN: 9789004257276-9004257276

Civil Litigation Against Terrorism

ISBN: 978-0-89089-451-4

Legal Issues in the Struggle Against Terror

ISBN-13: 978-1594608308

The 9/11 Terror Cases: Constitutional Challenges in the War against Al Qaeda (Landmark Law Cases and American Society)

ISBN-13: 978-0700621705

Law Review Articles

Mona Conway, Terrorism, the Law and Politics As Usual: A Comparison of Anti-Terrorism Legislation Before and After 9/11, 18 TOURO L. REV. 735 (2002)
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Compares anti-terrorism legislation before and after 9/11. Examining the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and its legal and political ramifications.
Daphne Barak-Erez, David Scharia, Freedom of Speech, Support for Terrorism, and the Challenge of Global Constitutional Law, HARV. NAT'L J., 1 (2011).
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Examines the case's holding, and its global implications on the the limits of free speech as it relates to the support of terrorism.
Erwin Chemerinsky, Against Sovereign Immunity, 53 DUKE L. REV. 1202 (2001)
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Reconsiders sovereign immunity in its entirety, and argues that it is an archaic concept deriving from a long discredited royal prerogative that is inconsistent with today's democratic principles.
Victoria Valentine, Shelli Feinberg, Simone Fabiilli, The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act’s Crippling Effect On United States Businesses, 24 MICH. ST. INT'L L. REV. 638 (2015).
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Explores the relationship U.S. businesses engage in with entities owned by foreign governments, and the issues that can result in the litigation between the foreign governments and their state-owned businesses. This article also examines the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act and how it is the sole basis for bringing suit against these types of state-owned businesses.

CRS Reports

In Re Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001: Claims Against Saudi Defendants Under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA)

RL34726 (January 22, 2015 – May 17, 2016)

Suits Against Terrorist States by Victims of Terrorism

RL31258 (August 8, 2008)

Samantar v. Yousef: The Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) and Foreign Officials

R41379 (December 16, 2013)

When Does Sovereign Immunity Protect Property Owned by State Sponsors of Terrorism?

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service (November 11, 2016)

Google Scholar

Government Report

Next Terrorist Financiers: Stopping Them Before They Start

United States House of Representatives, Committee on Financial Services Subcommitte on Task Force to Investigate Terrorism Financing

Library of Congress Subject Headings

International Periodicals

Wait, JASTA Second... What About Sovereign Immunity? An Overview of the Controversial Justice Against Sponsors of Terror Act ("JASTA") from a Middle East Perspective

Al Tamimi & Company, 2017

BRIEF: IAF Declares Support for Saudi Arabia Against JASTA Bill

Jordan Times, 2017

Pakistan expresses concern over JASTA to target sovereign states

Daily Pakistan, 2016

US 'vulnerable to JASTA because of global operations'

Arab News, 2016