The ultra vires character of legislative action by the security council

International Organizations Law Review

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 337-360

  Elberling, Björn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

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EID: 43849111265     PISSN: 15723739     EISSN: 15718069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157237405775093762     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Cf. Jochen Abr. Frowein and Nico Krisch, Article 39, mn. 16 et seq., in: Bruno Simma (ed.), The Charter of the United Nations: A Commentary (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2nd ed. 2002).
2. See, e.g., UN Doc Res. S/RES/662 (1990) on the Iraqi annexation of Kuwait or UN Doc Res. S/RES/940 (1994) on the military government in Haiti.
3. Catherine Denis, Le Pouvoir normatif du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies: Portée et limites (Brussels, Bruylant, 2004), Chapter 2, gives a detailed overview, concluding that in such instances the Counsel acts "tel un 'juge'" (para. 115).
4. See also José E. Alvarez, International Organizations as Law-makers (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005), at 173-6.
5. Whether this is indeed the case is, of course, beyond the scope of this paper. For the position that Res. 1422 and 1487 were not covered by the Rome Statute,
6. see Andreas Zimmermann, ""Acting under Chapter VII ( )"-Resolution 1422 and Possible Limits of the Powers of the Security Council", in: Jochen Abr. Frowein (ed.), Verhandeln für den Frieden: Liber Amicorum Tono Eitel (Berlin et al., Springer, 2003), 253 at 264;
7. Neha Jain, "A Separate Law for Peacekeepers: The Clash between the Security Council and the International Criminal Court", 16 European Journal of International Law (2005), 239 at 246-51.
8. For arguments more supportive of these resolutions, see, e.g., Ruth Wedgwood, "The International Criminal Court: An American View", (1999) 10 European Journal of International Law 93, at 97 et seq.
9. See also Bryan MacPherson, "Authority of the Security Council to Exempt Peacekeepers from International Criminal Court Proceedings", ASIL Insights (July 2002), available at: http://www.asil.org/insights/insigh89.htm.
10. See, e.g., Stefan Talmon, "The Security Council as World Legislature", (2005) 99 American Journal of International Law 175, as well as the statements by the representatives of Namibia, Nigeria, Kuwait, South Korea and Switzerland in UN Doc. S/PV.4950 and Resumption 1 (2004).
11. For a critique of these resolutions, see Martti Koskenniemi, "The Police in the Temple-Order, Justice and the UN: A Dialectal View", (1995) 6 European Journal of International Law 325, at 338; as well as the position of Mexico as stated, e.g., in UN Doc. A/55/PV.95 (2001), at 3 and A/55/PV.102 (2001), at 3.
12. Operative para. 2. See also UN Doc Res. S/RES/1333 (2000), para. 8.
13. On the later UN Doc Res. S/RES/1591 (2005) on Sudan, see Elizabeth Wilmshurst, "The Secu rity Council, sanctions and sanctions committees", in: International Institutional Reform, supra note *.
14. On problems arising out of the procedures that these Committees follow, especially regarding the listing and delisting of individuals, see Alvarez, supra note 2, at 202-3, especially fn. 58 and 59.
15. Wilmshurst, supra note fn. 9; Alvarez, supra note 2, at 173 et seq.
16. See, e.g., Erika de Wet and André Nollkaemper, "Review of Security Council Deci sions by National Courts", (2002) 45 German Yearbook of International Law 166, at 171 et seq.
17. 23 May 1969, 1155 UNTS 331.
18. Susan Lamb, "Legal Limits to United Nations Security Council Powers", in: Guy S. Goodwin-Gill et al. (eds.), The Reality of International Law-Essays in Honour of Ian Brownlie (Oxford, Clarendon, 1999)