The article states that the JASTA was recently passed by the US Congress and became law, and that the United States has had a terrorism exception in the FSIA since 1996.
It also notes that section 1605A of the FSIA provides that foreign states are not immune from certain damages actions based on torture, extrajudicial killing, or material support for such acts, but that the exception is limited to countries designated by the US as state sponsors of terrorism.
The scope of foreign states’ sovereign immunity under JASTA and the FSIA terrorism exception in the United States, and its relation to territoriality
İstanbul Medeniyet Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, Vol. 2 No. 2 · 2016
