Editorial: The UN, the EU and jus cogens

International Organizations Law Review

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-6

  Wessel, Ramses A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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EID: 72449206656     PISSN: 15723739     EISSN: 15718069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/157237406777880305     Document Type: Review

References (8)

1. CFI Case T-306/01, Ahmed Ali Yusuf and Al Barakaat International Foundation v. Council and Commission; CFI Case T-315/01, Yassin Abdullah Kadi v. Council and Com mission, 21 September 2005; see .
2. Official Journal L 67 (2001), at 1.
3. Paras. 190-191 of the Yusuf Judgment (references to other cases were left out in the quotation).
4. E. de Wet, 'The International Constitutional Order', 2006 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 51-76.
5. Although it has been argued that in the 1992 Lockerbie Case the International Court of Justice did review a Security Council resolution.
6. Thomas M. Franck, 'The "Powers of Appreciation": Who is the Ultimate Guardian of UN Legality?', 1992 Am. J. Int'l L. 519.
7. ECHR Case Waite & Kennedy, in which the European Court of Human Rights held that, even at a national level, courts could have a competence to judge the actions of international organizations, notwithstanding the latter's immunity from jurisdiction, once these organizations lack a certain standard of legal protection. See Waite & Kennedy, Decision of 18 February 1999, [1999] RJD, at 393.
8. A. Reinisch and U.A. Weber, 'In the Shadow of Waite and Kennedy-The Jurisdictional Immunity of International Organizations, the Individual's Right of Access to Courts and Administrative Tribunals as Alternative Means of Dispute Settlement', 2004 International Organizations Law Review 59 (providing an extensive analysis).