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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Ian Brownlie
- A Select Bibliography on Public International Law
- Contributors
- Table of Cases
- Table of Treaties
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 The Effective Enforcement of High Seas Fishing Regimes: The Case of the Convention for the Regulation of the Policing of the North Sea Fisheries of 6 May 1882
- Chapter 2 The Legal Premises for the International Protection of Human Rights
- Chapter 3 A Taste of Armageddon: The Law of Armed Conflict as Applied to Cyberwar
- Chapter 4 Rethinking Panama: International Law and the US Invasion of Panama, 1989
- Chapter 5 Israel (1948–1949) and Palestine (1998–1999): Two Studies in the Creation of States
- Chapter 6 The Place of Non-Forcible Counter-Measures in Contemporary International Law
- Chapter 7 Maritime Delimitation after <i>Denmark</i> v. <i>Norway</i>: Back to the Future?
- Chapter 8 The Utilization of International Groundwater in General International Law
- Chapter 9 Crime in International Law: Obligations <i>Erga Omnes</i> and the Duty to Prosecute
- Chapter 10 Adjudicatory Jurisdiction over Multilateral Enterprises: ‘Lifting the Veil’ in the EU and the USA
- Chapter 11 The Differing Concepts of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in International Criminal Law
- Chapter 12 State Responsibility and the 1948 Genocide Convention
- Chapter 13 The Quality of Justice: ‘<i>Excès de Pouvoir</i>’ in the Adjudication and Arbitration of Territorial and Boundary Disputes
- Chapter 14 Operational Policies of International Institutions as Part of the Law-Making Process: The World Bank and Indigenous Peoples
- Chapter 15 From Reform to Realism: The Council of Europe
- Chapter 16 Governance and Co-ordination in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations: Challenge or Maze?
- Chapter 17 Legal Limits to United Nations Security Council Powers
- Chapter 18 Defences in the Jurisprudence of International Tribunals
- Chapter 19 The Protection of Human Rights in Emergency Situations under Customary International Law
- Chapter 20 International Criminal Environmental Law
- Chapter 21 International Obligations <i>Erga Omnes</i>: Their Moral Foundation and Criteria of Identification in Light of Two Japanese Contributions
- Chapter 22 Habeas Corpus and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Chapter 23 Who is a Legitimate Government in Exile? Towards Normative Criteria for Governmental Legitimacy in International Law
- Chapter 24 Resource Entitlement in the Law of the Sea: Some Areas of Continuity and Change
- Chapter 25 <i>Forum Prorogatum</i> and the Indication of Provisional Measures in the International Court of Justice
- Index
Legal Limits to United Nations Security Council Powers
Legal Limits to United Nations Security Council Powers
- Chapter:
- (p.361) Chapter 17 Legal Limits to United Nations Security Council Powers
- Source:
- The Reality of International Law
- Author(s):
Susan Lamb
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198268376.003.0017
This chapter discusses the legal limits to the powers of the United Nations (UN) Security Council. It explains that the scope of the powers that subsidiary organs created by the Security Council under Chapter VII may exercise and the precise role of international judicial bodies in defining these limits are all at the frontiers of contemporary international law. It suggests that the Council's open-textured and discretionary powers could be inherently subject to abuse, which could have profound consequences for the fundamental rights of states and individuals.
Keywords: United Nations, legal authority, Security Council, judicial bodies, discretionary powers, international law
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Ian Brownlie
- A Select Bibliography on Public International Law
- Contributors
- Table of Cases
- Table of Treaties
- List of Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 The Effective Enforcement of High Seas Fishing Regimes: The Case of the Convention for the Regulation of the Policing of the North Sea Fisheries of 6 May 1882
- Chapter 2 The Legal Premises for the International Protection of Human Rights
- Chapter 3 A Taste of Armageddon: The Law of Armed Conflict as Applied to Cyberwar
- Chapter 4 Rethinking Panama: International Law and the US Invasion of Panama, 1989
- Chapter 5 Israel (1948–1949) and Palestine (1998–1999): Two Studies in the Creation of States
- Chapter 6 The Place of Non-Forcible Counter-Measures in Contemporary International Law
- Chapter 7 Maritime Delimitation after <i>Denmark</i> v. <i>Norway</i>: Back to the Future?
- Chapter 8 The Utilization of International Groundwater in General International Law
- Chapter 9 Crime in International Law: Obligations <i>Erga Omnes</i> and the Duty to Prosecute
- Chapter 10 Adjudicatory Jurisdiction over Multilateral Enterprises: ‘Lifting the Veil’ in the EU and the USA
- Chapter 11 The Differing Concepts of War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in International Criminal Law
- Chapter 12 State Responsibility and the 1948 Genocide Convention
- Chapter 13 The Quality of Justice: ‘<i>Excès de Pouvoir</i>’ in the Adjudication and Arbitration of Territorial and Boundary Disputes
- Chapter 14 Operational Policies of International Institutions as Part of the Law-Making Process: The World Bank and Indigenous Peoples
- Chapter 15 From Reform to Realism: The Council of Europe
- Chapter 16 Governance and Co-ordination in Conflict and Post-Conflict Situations: Challenge or Maze?
- Chapter 17 Legal Limits to United Nations Security Council Powers
- Chapter 18 Defences in the Jurisprudence of International Tribunals
- Chapter 19 The Protection of Human Rights in Emergency Situations under Customary International Law
- Chapter 20 International Criminal Environmental Law
- Chapter 21 International Obligations <i>Erga Omnes</i>: Their Moral Foundation and Criteria of Identification in Light of Two Japanese Contributions
- Chapter 22 Habeas Corpus and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- Chapter 23 Who is a Legitimate Government in Exile? Towards Normative Criteria for Governmental Legitimacy in International Law
- Chapter 24 Resource Entitlement in the Law of the Sea: Some Areas of Continuity and Change
- Chapter 25 <i>Forum Prorogatum</i> and the Indication of Provisional Measures in the International Court of Justice
- Index
