Messineo, Francesco (2011) Things Could Only Get Better: Al-Jedda beyond Behrami. Military Law and the Law of War Review (Revue de Droit Militaire et de Droit de la Guerre), 50 (3-4). pp. 321-346. ISSN 0556-7394.
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Abstract
In July 2011, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) held in Al-Jedda v. United Kingdom that the UK was responsible for the misconduct of its troops deployed as part of the UN-authorized Multinational Force in Iraq. Together with two other recent cases, Al-Saadoon and Al-Skeini, this may be the start of a trend in the ECtHR directed at clarifying and expanding the scope of the European Convention by partially overcoming two notorious sets of precedents: the Behrami jurisprudence on the attribution of conduct of military personnel involved in operations under UN auspices; and the particularly ambiguous Banković jurisprudence on the extraterritorial scope of human rights protection. This article focuses on the Behrami side of Al-Jedda’s story: the question of attribution of conduct. Despite the attempts by the ECtHR to pay lip-service to Behrami by distinguishing it on the facts, the practical result of Al-Jedda is that Behrami should no longer be considered ‘good law’ when it comes to attribution of conduct during UN-authorized peace support operations. This is a major development, given that Behrami was almost universally criticised by legal commentators for being wrong both as a matter of law and as a matter of policy.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled keywords: | Al-Jedda, Behrami, attribution of conduct, international responsibility, peacekeeping, peace support operations, European Court of Human Rights |
| Subjects: | K Law |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Social Sciences > Kent Law School |
| Depositing User: | Jenny Harmer |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Jul 2012 08:33 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jul 2012 08:51 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/29863 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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