Introduction

• Author: Ernesto Sanchez
• Pages: 43-43

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THE F SIA’S TE R R IT O RI A L I T Y A ND SCOPE

INTRODUCTION

e next ve chapters describe where and to whom the FSIA applies. Chapter 3 discusses the

FSIA’s denition of the “United States,” which is relevant because of how legal actions under

the statute inevitably have a foreign nexus.1 Chapter 4 addresses which persons, natural or jurid-

ical, can sue or be sued under the FSIA. Chapters 5, 6, and 7 then further examine the requisites

a prospective defendant must satisfy—status as a foreign state proper, political subdivision of a

foreign state proper, or an agency or instrumentality of a foreign state or foreign state political

subdivision—in order for an FSIA action to proceed.

1. See, e.g., 28 U.S.C. § 1605(a)(2) (commercial activity exception to immunity allows for actions based upon “an act

outside the territory of the United States in connection with a commercial activity of the foreign state elsewhere and that act

causes a direct eect in the United States”).

PART II

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