Session 14: The territorial scope of human rights obligations: do states owe human rights obligations beyond their borders?
21 February 2013
Preparation:
- Canadian Supreme Court,Canada (Justice) v. Khadr, 2008 SCC 28
- ECHR, Soering v. the UK (§ 11-26 and 80-91)
- ECHR, Case of Bankovic, Grand Chamber, Decision on the Admissibility, 12 December 2001 (paras. 4-13 and 59-82)
- ECHR, Al Skeini v United Kingdom, Judgment, 7 July 2011 – read only paras. 109-150 and Judge Bonello’s Concurring Opinion at p. 78
- ECHR, Loizidou v Turkey, paras. 56-64 (Application no. 40/1993/435/514)
- ICJ, Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (9 July 2004), at paras. 107-113
- Skim the Maastricht ETO Principles 2011
Further readings:
- T. Abdel-Monem, “How Far Do the Lawless Areas of Europe Extend? Extraterritorial Application of the European Convention on Human Rights” (2004) 14 Journal of Transnational Law & Policy 159
- O. Ben-Naftali & Y. Shany, “Living in Denial: The Application of Human Rights in the Occupied Territories” (2003) 37 Isr. L. Rev. 17-622
- M. J. Dennis, “Application of Human Rights Treaties Extraterritorially in Times of Armed Conflict and Military Occupation” (2005) 99:1 The American Journal of International Law 119-141
- S. Deva, “Acting Extraterritorially to Tame Multinational Corporations for Human Rights Violations: Who Should ‘Bell the Cat’?” (2004) 5 Melbourne Journal of International Law 37-65
- M. Happold, “Bankovic v. Belgium and the Territorial Scope of the European Convention on Human Rights” (2003) 3:1 Human Rights Law Review 77-90
- D. Kamchibekova, “State Responsibility for Extraterritorial Human Rights Violations” (2007) 13 Buff. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 87
- Robert McCorquodale and Penelope Simons, “Responsibility beyond borders: state responsibility for extraterritorial violations by corporations of international human rights law” (2007) 70:4 The Modern Law Review 598-625
- T. Meron, “Extraterritoriality of Human Rights Treaties” (1995) 89:1 American Journal of International Law 78-82
- Ralph Wilde “Triggering State Obligations Extraterritorially: The Spatial Test in Certain Human Rights Treaties” (2007) 40:2 Israel Law Review 503-526