- Collection:
- Dean Rusk International Law Center Collections
- Title:
- The Issue of the Legal Validity of using Economic Sanctions to Enforce Human Rights
- Creator:
- Hailu, Thomas
- Date of Original:
- 1997-01-01
- Subject:
- University of Georgia. School of Law
Law--Study and teaching
International law - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- dissertations
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Economic sanctions -- Theory of human rights -- Universalism -- Cultural relativism -- Article 2(4) of the UN Charter -- Forcible and non-forcible countermeasures -- Reprisal countermeasures -- State responsibility for human rights violations -- Peremptory and erga omnes character -- GATT -- Makio Miyagawa -- Universal economic sanctions -- Unilateral economic sanctions -- League of Nations -- Covenant of the League -- Article XXI of the Covenant of the League -- United Nations -- UN Security Council -- Rhodesia -- Article 41 of the UN Charter -- Boycott of Iranian oil 1951-1953 -- Mohammed Mossadeq -- Arab oil embargo of 1973-1974 -- Organization of American States and the European Union -- Trade sanctions -- Embargoes -- Import controls -- Financial sanctions -- IMF -- World Bank -- Foreign aid -- Development assistance -- 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights -- International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights -- Positivist jurisprudence -- Naturalist jurisprudence -- Banjul Charter -- Derek Bowett -- Hans Kelsen -- Myre McDougal -- Florentino Feliciano -- Dumbarton Oaks -- Use of force -- General Assembly -- UN General Assembly’s Declaration on the Inadmissibility of Intervention in the Domestic Affairs of States and the Protection of their Independence and Sovereignty -- General Assembly's Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation -- Obradivic -- International Law Commission -- ILC -- Vienna Conference on the Law of Treaties -- 1970 Declaration on Friendly Relations -- Retorsion -- Battle Act -- USSR -- Foreign Assistance Act -- United Nations Resolution 2625 -- 1974 Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States -- Riphagen -- Nicaragua Case -- Akehurst -- Tunkin -- Meron -- Comparative and Foreign Law -- Courts -- European Law -- Human rights law -- International Humanitarian Law -- International Law -- Jurisdiction -- Jurisprudence -- Law and Society -- Transnational Law
The international legal regime as it pertains to human rights is neither as established nor as definitive as it appears. It suffers from many disadvantages, the first and most important of which is the fact that the international legal regime has never been capable of effectively enforcing its rules or instituting appropriate remedies for its breaches. Some states have attempted to make up for this inability on behalf of international law by undertaking an enforcement mechanism either unilaterally or multilaterally; economic sanctions are often regarded as valuable tools of enforcement to be used against countries which are allegedly engaged in human rights violations. This paper examines the validity of the use of economic sanctions from the legal perspective, in light of existing rules of international law and potential effects of practical problems in using this remedy. The nature and types of economic sanctions will be discussed, as well as certain legal and theoretical considerations and problems underlying international human rights law. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/stu_llm/198
- Holding Institution:
- Alexander Campbell King Law Library
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