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Extraterritorial Application of Human Rights Treaties : Law, Principles, and Policy.
States' human rights obligations under international treaties often extend beyond their borders and cases are increasingly being brought for violations which took place outside of a state's territory. This book makes sense of the often confusing case law on this issue and proposes a new wa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
OUP Oxford,
2014.
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| Colección: | Oxford monographs in international law.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Table of Cases; Table of Treaties; I. Introduction; 1. Outline and Scope of the Study; 2. Defining Extraterritorial Application; 3. The Law of Treaties Provides No General Answer; 4. Basic Normative Framework; A. Jurisdiction clauses; B. Treaties with dedicated provisions on territorial application; C. Treaties with no provisions on territorial application; D. Concluding remarks; II. From Compromise to Principle; 1. A Threshold Criterion: Jurisdiction of a State, Not the Jurisdiction of a Court; 2. Jurisdiction's Many Meanings; A.A spurious assumption.
- B. Jurisdiction in general international lawC. Jurisdiction: an absurdity; D. Jurisdiction: a homonym; E. Origins of jurisdiction clauses; F. Jurisdiction as power; 3. State Jurisdiction Is Not State Responsibility; A. Loizidou: a test of attribution?; B. The first possible reading of Loizidou; C. The second possible reading of Loizidou; D. Attribution as a prerequisite for jurisdiction; 4. Conclusion; III. Policy Behind the Rule; 1. Introduction; 2. Universality and Human Dignity; 3. Sovereignty and Territory; 4. Sovereignty and Comity to the Territorial State.
- A. The sovereignty of Iraq in Al-SkeiniB. Canadian case law on sovereignty and comity; C. Comity as a distraction from effectiveness; 5. Sovereignty, Citizenship, and the Social Contract; A. US case law on citizenship and extraterritoriality; B. The Guantanamo cases; C. Evaluating citizenship as a ground for extraterritoriality of individual rights; 6. Relativism and Regionalism; A. Relativism and regionalism before the European Court; B. Relativism and regionalism in Al-Skeini; C. Relativism and regionalism evaluated: another face of effectiveness.
- 7. Preventing Arbitrary Distinctions and Results and the Abuse of Law8. Political Questions, Deference, and Institutional Incompetence; 9. Effectiveness and Norm Confiict; 10. Between Universality and Effectiveness; A. What does and what should matter; B. Effectiveness: flexibility; C. Effectiveness: impact; D. Effectiveness: regime integrity; E. Effectivness: clarity and predictability; F. Conclusion; IV. Models of Extraterritorial Application; 1. Basic Models and Scenarios; A. Introduction; B. Extraterritorial deprivation of life; C. Extraterritorial deprivation of liberty.
- D. Complicity scenariosE. Extraterritorial law enforcement; F. Transboundary environmental harm; 2. The Spatial Model: Jurisdiction as Control of an Area; A. Introduction; B. What is an 'area'?; C. What amounts to 'control'?; D. Control over places and objects; E. Outlook; 3. The Personal Model: Jurisdiction as Authority and Control over Individuals; A. Introduction; B. Case law; C. What amounts to authority and control? Can the personal model be limited?; D. The personal model collapses; 4. A Third Model: Territorial Jurisdiction and the Distinction Between Positive and Negative Obligations.