Immunity from Suit for International Organizations: The Judiciary's New Que of Separating Lawsuit Sheep from Lawsuit Goats

I. Introduction II. Immunity from Suit in Public International Law (A) Sovereign Immunity (i) Sources of Sovereign Immunity (ii) Legal Theory on Sovereign Immunity (iii) Doctrinal Evolution of Sovereign Immunity (B) Jurisdictional Immunity for International Organizations (C) Sovereign Immunity and Immunity for International Organizations Domestically III. Jam v. Int'l Finance Corporation: A New Dawn for International Organizations in the United States (A) Jam v. Int'l Finance Corporation: Majority View (B) Jam v. Int'l Finance Corporation: Dissenting Opinion by Justice Breyer IV. The Exception that Proves but does not Swallow the rule on Virtually Absolute Immunity: Criticism of the Majority in the Jam Opinion from a Textualist Standpoint (A) A Conceptual Caveat: Jurisprudential Logic (i) Models of a Proper Jurisprudential Analysis (B) Text and Textual Consequences (C) Precedent and History (D) Structure (E) Concluding Remarks on Textualism V. Implications for the Court and International Organizations: Criticism of the Majority Opinion from a Purposivist Standpoint VI. Concluding Remarks