Act of state doctrine

The Act- of- State Doctrine (English: Act of State doctrine ) is a recognized in the common law rule of international law. It says that acts of foreign states are excluded from judicial review. The doctrine is not a general rule of international law within the meaning of Article 25 of the Basic Law. Rather does it affect the interpretation of domestic law, namely the question of whether and to what extent is assumed that the effectiveness of the acts of foreign states. To German law, such a doctrine is not known. Here there is no mandatory rule that the validity of foreign sovereign acts was withdrawn when applying national law of judicial review. Especially not about acts that are attributable to the state activity of the GDR, to review by courts of the Federal Republic of Germany are withdrawn, as in particular from Article 18 and Article 19 gives the Unification Treaty.