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Jus Cogens and Human Rights: Interactions Between Two Factors of Harmonization of International Law

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George Abi-Saab said that even if jus cogens were “an empty box, the category was still useful: for without the box, it cannot be filled.”

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Abi-Saab (1973), p. 53.

  2. 2.

    Article 53 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1969.

  3. 3.

    Orakhelashvili (2009), p. 1.

  4. 4.

    Peters (2012), p. 123.

  5. 5.

    Sudre (2011), p. 38, translation of the author.

  6. 6.

    Bianchi (2008), p. 491.

  7. 7.

    Barnidge (2008), p. 6.

  8. 8.

    Salmon (2001), p. 396, translation of the author.

  9. 9.

    Sudre (2011), p. 85.

  10. 10.

    Cassese (2012), p. 136.

  11. 11.

    Cohen-Jonathan (2008), p. 61.

  12. 12.

    Bianchi (2008), p. 495.

  13. 13.

    Bianchi (2008), p. 495.

  14. 14.

    Bianchi (2008), p. 495.

  15. 15.

    Bianchi (2008), p. 497.

  16. 16.

    De Londras (2007), p. 250.

  17. 17.

    Orakhelashvili (2009), p. 2.

  18. 18.

    Klein (2008), p. 479.

  19. 19.

    ICTY, Prosecutor v. Anton Furundzija, 10 December 1998, IT-95-17/1-T.

  20. 20.

    Article 53 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1969.

  21. 21.

    ICTY, Prosecutor v. Anton Furundzija, 10 December 1998, IT-95-17/1-T, para. 153.

  22. 22.

    IACHR, Goiburú et al. v. Paraguay, Judgment, 22 September 2006.

  23. 23.

    IACHR, Goiburú et al. v. Paraguay, Judgment, 22 September 2006, para. 84.

  24. 24.

    IACHR, La Cantuta v. Peru, Judgment, 29 November 2006, §157, emphasis on “all the more” added.

  25. 25.

    Peters (2006), p. 579.

  26. 26.

    Peters (2006), p. 598.

  27. 27.

    Peters (2006), p. 599.

  28. 28.

    Virally (1966), p. 19.

  29. 29.

    Bianchi (2008), p. 496.

  30. 30.

    ICTY, Prosecutor v. Anton Furundzija, 10 December 1998, IT-95-17/1-T, para. 157.

  31. 31.

    IACHR, Goiburú et al. v. Paraguay, Judgment, 22 September 2006, para. 84; IACHR, La Cantuta v. Peru, Judgment, 29 November 2006, para. 157.

  32. 32.

    Article 1 of the IACHR.

  33. 33.

    Ferrini v. Federal Republic of Germany, Decision No. 5044/2004, in, ICJ, Jurisdictional immunities of the state (Germany v. Italy: Greece intervening), judgment, 3 February 2012, para. 27.

  34. 34.

    Articles 53 and 64 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1969.

  35. 35.

    Articles 40 and 41 of the ILC Draft articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (2001) and articles 41 and 42 of the ILC Draft articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations.

  36. 36.

    “Du point de vue du droit des traités, le jus cogens est simplement la caractéristique propre à certaines normes juridiques de ne pas être susceptibles de dérogation par voie conventionnelle.” Para. 41, Case concerning the delimitation of maritime boundary between Guinea-Bissau and Senegal, 31 juillet 1989, Recueil des sentences arbitrales, Volume XX, p. 208.

  37. 37.

    Articles 40 and 41 of the ILC Draft articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (2001) and articles 41 and 42 of the ILC Draft articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations.

  38. 38.

    Cohen-Jonathan (2008), p. 63.

  39. 39.

    Al-Adsani v. United Kingdom [GC], Application No. 35763/97, Judgment, 21 November 2001, ECHR Reports 2001-XI, p. 101, para. 61.

  40. 40.

    ICJ, Jurisdictional immunities of the state (Germany v. Italy: Greece intervening), judgment, 3 February 2012, para. 92.

  41. 41.

    ICJ, Jurisdictional immunities of the state (Germany v. Italy: Greece intervening), judgment, 3 February 2012, para. 93.

  42. 42.

    ICJ, Jurisdictional immunities of the state (Germany v. Italy: Greece intervening), judgment, 3 February 2012, para. 95.

  43. 43.

    Article 53 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1969.

  44. 44.

    Kadi, Case T-315/01, Yassin Abdullah Kadi v. Council of the European Union and Commission of the European Communities, Judgment of the CFI, 21 September 2005.

  45. 45.

    “With more particular regard to a Community act which, like the contested regulation, is intended to give effect to a resolution adopted by the Security Council under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, it is not, therefore, for the Community judicature, under the exclusive jurisdiction provided for by Article 220 EC, to review the lawfulness of such a resolution adopted by an international body, even if that review were to be limited to examination of the compatibility of that resolution with jus cogens.” Para. 287, Joined cases C-402/05 P and C-415/05 P, Yassin Abdullah Kadi and Al Barakaat International Foundation v. Council of the European Union and Commission of the European Communities.

  46. 46.

    ICJ, Case concerning armed activities on the territory of the Congo (New application: 2002) (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Rwanda), jurisdiction of the Court and admissibility of the application, judgment, 3 February 2006, para. 125.

  47. 47.

    Cohen-Jonathan (2008), p. 67, translation of the author.

  48. 48.

    ICTY, Prosecutor v. Anton Furundzija, 10 December 1998, IT-95-17/1-T.

  49. 49.

    Sudre (2011), p. 85.

  50. 50.

    Cohen-Jonathan (2008), p. 69.

  51. 51.

    UN Conference on the Law of Treaties, First session (1968), Official Record, p. 303, para. 48.

  52. 52.

    ECtHR, Tyrer v. UK (Appl No. 5856/72), Judgment, 25 April 1978, Series A no 26, §31.

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Hennequet, E. (2015). Jus Cogens and Human Rights: Interactions Between Two Factors of Harmonization of International Law. In: Weiß, N., Thouvenin, JM. (eds) The Influence of Human Rights on International Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12021-8_2

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