Lump Sum Agreements

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020).

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1 Under a lump sum agreement, the respondent State pays the claimant State a fixed amount of money or provides reparations in kind in order to settle a number of outstanding international claims (Claims, International; Compensation; State Responsibility; Restitution). Usually, the allocation to individual claimants in the claimant State is carried out by a domestic claims authority or national claims commission (Individuals in International Law). Other terms are ‘en bloc’ or ‘global’ settlement agreements. In contrast to the settlement of disputes concerning.

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