Table Of ContentResponsibility of International Organizations
Responsibility of International
Organizations
Essays in Memory of Sir Ian Brownlie
Edited by
Maurizio Ragazzi
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2013
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Responsibility of international organizations : essays in memory of Sir Ian Brownlie / edited by
Maurizio Ragazzi.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-90-04-25607-1 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-90-04-25608-8 (e-book)
1. Tort liability of international agencies. 2. Government liability (International law) I. Brownlie,
Ian. II. Ragazzi, Maurizio.
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CONTENTS
Editor’s Preface ............................................................................................................. xi
Sir Ian Brownlie—Summary Biography and Select Bibliography ................ xv
Contributors .................................................................................................................. xix
Table of Cases ............................................................................................................... xxv
Table of Documents .................................................................................................... xxxi
List of Abbreviations ................................................................................................... xliii
PART ONE
SETTING THE STAGE
International Organizations’ Responsibility between
Codification and Progressive Development
1. Some Reflections on Basic Issues Concerning the Responsibility of
International Organizations ............................................................................... 3
Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade
2. The Processes of Law-Making: Τhe Law Relating to International
Organizations as an Example ............................................................................. 15
Kenneth Keith
3. Codification, Progressive Development, or Scholarly Analysis?
The Art of Packaging the ILC’s Work Product .............................................. 29
Sean D. Murphy
4. International Organizations Are Definitely Not States.
Cursory Remarks on the ILC Articles on the Responsibility of
International Organizations ............................................................................... 41
Alain Pellet
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5. ‘Weighing’ the Articles on Responsibility of International
Organizations ......................................................................................................... 55
Michael Wood
PART TWO
ASSESSING THE COMMISSION’S APPROACH
State Responsibility and Responsibility of International Organizations
(i) General Considerations
6. An Assessment of the ILC’s Articles on the Responsibility of
International Organizations .............................................................................. 71
C.F. Amerasinghe
7. International Organizations and State Responsibility .............................. 79
Dan Sarooshi
8. Viability of the ILC’s Articles Formulated on the Basis of the Articles
on State Responsibility ........................................................................................ 89
Chusei Yamada
(ii) Comparing the Two Sets of Articles
9. Parallel Worlds, Parallel Clauses: Remarks on the Relationship
between the Two Sets of ILC Articles on International Responsibility
and the UN Charter .............................................................................................. 97
Maurizio Arcari
10. An Uneasy Transition? Linkages between the Law of State
Responsibility and the Law Governing the Responsibility of
International Organizations .............................................................................. 109
Vincent-Joël Proulx
11. Within and Beyond Mutatis Mutandis ........................................................... 121
Tullio Scovazzi
(iii) Lex Specialis/Rules of the Organization
12. The Role of Lex Specialis in the Articles on the Responsibility of
International Organizations .............................................................................. 135
Kristen E. Boon
contents vii
13. Reflections on the Scope of Application of the Articles on the
Responsibility of International Organizations ........................................... 147
Arnold N. Pronto
14. Practice as a Relevant Factor for the Responsibility of International
Organizations ........................................................................................................ 159
Emmanuel Roucounas
PART THREE
PARTICULAR PERSPECTIVES
International Organizations and Other Entities
(i) United Nations and Other International Organizations
15. The ILC’s Articles Seen from a WHO Perspective .................................... 177
Gian Luca Burci and Clemens Feinäugle
16. European Exceptionalism in International Law? The European
Union and the System of International Responsibility ........................... 189
José Manuel Cortés Martín
17. ILC Articles on Responsibility of International Organizations:
Τhe Interplay between the Practice and the Rule
(A View from the United Nations) ................................................................. 201
Daphna Shraga
(ii) International Financial Institutions
18. United in Joy and Sorrow: Some Considerations on
Responsibility Issues under Partnerships among International
Financial Institutions ......................................................................................... 213
Laurence Boisson de Chazournes
19. Codification, Progressive Development or Innovation?
Some Reflections on the ILC Articles on the Responsibility of
International Organizations ............................................................................. 225
Ross Leckow and Erik Plith
20. The World Bank and the ILC’s Project on the Responsibility of
International Organizations ............................................................................. 235
Maurizio Ragazzi
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(iii) Other Entities
21. The Responsibility of International Organizations: Selected
Reflections from the Perspective of a Former Legal Counsel to the
Holy See .................................................................................................................. 251
Robert John Araujo
22. The Elusive Allocation of Responsibility to Informal Organizations:
Τhe Case of the Quartet on the Middle East .............................................. 261
John Dugard and Annemarieke Vermeer-Künzli
23. Attribution of Conduct after the Advisory Opinion on the
Global Mechanism ............................................................................................... 275
Rutsel Silvestre J. Martha
PART FOUR
SPECIAL CONCERNS
Selected Issues Regarding the Articles
(i) Responsibility and Member States
24. Responsibility of Member States towards Third Parties for an
Internationally Wrongful Act of the Organization .................................... 293
Kazuhiro Nakatani
25. Exploring Alternative Routes: Τhe Obligation of Members to Enable
the Organization to Make Reparation ........................................................... 303
Paolo Palchetti
26. The Responsibility of International Organizations and Τheir
Member States ...................................................................................................... 313
Pavel Šturma
27. ‘Member Responsibility’ and the ILC Articles on the Responsibility
of International Organizations: Some Observations ................................. 325
Sienho Yee
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(ii) Responsibility and the Courts/Countermeasures
28. Responsibility of International Organizations and Justiciability of
Disputes .................................................................................................................. 339
Sergio Puig
29. Responsibility of International Organizations: What Role for the
International Court of Justice? ........................................................................ 351
Hugh Thirlway
30. The Countermeasure of Disobedience: Implementing the
Responsibility of International Organizations ............................................ 361
Antonios Tzanakopoulos
31. Countermeasures by Member States Αgainst International
Organizations ........................................................................................................ 373
Simone Vezzani
(iii) Use of Force/Peacekeeping Operations
32. The Notion of ‘Effective Control’ under the Articles on the
Responsibility of International Organizations ............................................ 389
Blanca Montejo
33. United Nations Responsibility from Authorizing the Use of Force ..... 405
P.S. Rao
34. International Responsibility for the Conduct of ‘Blue Helmets’:
Exploring the Organic Link .............................................................................. 415
Francesco Salerno
Appendix 1 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 66/100,
Responsibility of International Organizations
(Adopted on December 9, 2011) ................................................... 429
Appendix 2 International Law Commission’s General Commentary on
the Articles .......................................................................................... 449
Bibliography ................................................................................................................... 453
Index ................................................................................................................................ 467
