Sovereign Immunity, Islamic Law and Morsi’s Decrees
Nov 28
Does Islamic law have a conception of sovereign immunity? Yes, and it is derived from the notion of the public official as a public agent. This relationship defines both why it is obligatory to obey lawful acts of a public agent.– because one is always bound by the lawful acts taken by one’s own agent — and why one is not bound by the ruler’s unlawful acts — because an agent’s unlawful acts are beyond the scope of his agency and are thus that of a private person and not of an agent.
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