International organizations rely on arbitration to resolve disputes with the contractors, suppliers, and vendors that keep them running.
Defense procurement disputes raise a problem most commercial arbitrations never have to face: some of the evidence that matters most may be legally off-limits to the people deciding the case.
Jurisdictional immunity is often treated as a fixed asset that an international organization acquires as soon as it is written into a headquarters agreement or a constituent treaty. In practice, jurisdictional immunity is vulnerable.