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

Forgetting Article 103 of the UN Charter? Some perplexities on ‘equivalent protection’ after Al-Dulimi

1. Introduction While approaching the question from different perspectives, both the papers of Maura Marchegiani and Luigi Palombella converge in praising the judgment rendered by the second section of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the Al-Dulimi case.[1] Their assessment is of course justified, if not only for the basic fact that the...

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...