| Jurisdictional immunity of state and its property is a generally accepted principle of customary international law. According to this principle, a country and its property in another country enjoy immunity from the jurisdiction of the court. However with the ceaseless acceleration of globalization, the country frequently engaged in commercial activities, the principle of Jurisdictional Immunities of States and their property the existence of exceptions and exception scope question caused fierce controversy among a great many scholars and experts of the international field in the international society.State immunity is not only an important theoretical problem in the field of international law, but also the problem needed to solve urgently.According to traditional theories of international law, the nature of the nation act is divided into dominant behavior and administrative behavior, the paper then discusses the four main exceptions of jurisdictional immunity of state and its property, respectively, which are the commercial transaction, employment contract, tort and arbitration agreement. In addition, this paper tries to have an interpretation to the legislative provisions and analysis about the United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property concretely and elaborately. At the end of the paper briefly describes the other four exceptions. Comprehensive summary of exceptions of jurisdictional immunity of state and its property, which contributes to the scholars’ research on the issue of state immunity. Besides the introduction and the conclusion, this paper is divided into four chapters.The first chapter introduces basic theory of the jurisdictional immunity of state and its property, mainly include the definition of the jurisdictional immunity of state and its property, the nature of he jurisdictional immunity of state and its property and its characteristics.The second chapter focuses on basis of theories of the Jurisdictional Immunity of State and its property—absolute immunity and restrict immunity and historical reasons for absolute immunity transferred to restrict immunity as well.The third chapter is about the two main international conventions of jurisdictional immunity of state and its property, including "the European Convention on State Immunity" and "the United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property" and narrates their main content and brief evaluation from both the positive and negative sides.The fourth chapter puts emphasizes on commercial transactions, employment contract, tort and arbitration agreement of the exceptions of jurisdictional immunity of state and its property, do brief introduction to the remained other four exceptions, namely state-owned vessels, ownership, possession and use of property, intellectual and industrial property rights and participation in the company or other agency. |