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Immunities are procedural impediments to the exercise of jurisdiction by courts, ordinarily domestic courts. It is a mainstay of international law that states are entitled to immunity under customary international law (see for an attempt at codification: United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property (UN Convention Jurisdictional Immunities).1 This immunity finds its justification in the principle of the sovereign equality of states, according to which no state can sit on judgment of another state, which after all is formally its peer under international law.
Immunities have also been accorded to international organizations. This has happened on the basis of constituent documents rather than customary international law or general principles of law (League of Arab States, Ryngaert).2 The rationale for such immunities also differs: they do not serve to protect international organizations from interference by their peers—other international organizations—but rather by the domestic courts of states, including their member states. Therefore, international organization immunity is essentially geared to protecting the autonomy of the international organization vis-à-vis states.
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