Monthly archive July, 2014

Le principe de la protection équivalente dans l’articulation des rapports entre ordre juridique des NU et CEDH après l’arrêt Al-Dulimi

1. Introduction Dans son arrêt Al-Dulimi et Montana Management Inc. c Suisse,[1] la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme (Deuxième Chambre) a pour la première fois appliqué le principe de la protection équivalente au système des Nations Unies. Ce mécanisme a fréquemment été utilisé dans le système de la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme...

The principled, and winding, road to Al-Dulimi. Interpreting the interpreters

1. A further shade of principle (Premise one) In the famous Kadi case, the European Court of First Instance (CFI)[1] held  that ‘the resolutions of the Security Council […] fall, in principle, outside the ambit of the Court’s judicial review and […] the Court has no authority to call in question, even indirectly, their lawfulness...

Shifting from Article 103 to ‘equivalent protection’. The Al-Dulimi case before the European Court of Human Rights

Introduced by Antonello Tancredi   In its recent case law, from Al-Jedda to Al-Dulimi, the European Court of Human Rights has demonstrated a particular inclination in solving issues of conflict between international obligations arising from different conventional systems (such as the ECHR and the UN) not in terms of hierarchy or supremacy (following, for example,...

The protection from removal to unsafe countries under the ECHR: not all that glitters is gold

1. From ‘nothing to Soering’: the smart idea of the so called ‘protection par ricochet’ and the judicial dynamism of the Strasbourg Court inimmigration and asylum matters It is well-known that, unlike the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter ‘ECHR’) does not contain an express provision on the right...

Massive immigration flows management in Italy between the fight against illegal immigration and human rights protection

1. The context As is well known, in the last few years – and especially as from 2011, in the aftermath of the so-called Arab Spring – Italy’s southern shores have been hit by a massive and seemingly never-ending immigration flow coming from Northern and Central Africa and from the Middle East through the Mediterranean...

Is there a gap between principles and practices in using the ECHR to set limits to States’ discretion in the management of migration flows?

Introduced by Francesca De Vittor and Cesare Pitea   In the last few years Italy, in common with other southern European countries, has been concerned by a large flow of migrants attempting to reach European Union countries across the Mediterranean Sea. This situation raises several questions of international law (as shown by the zoom-in concerning...