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Relationalizing the EU’s Fundamental Rights Responsibility

Human rights law traditionally governs a three-part relationship which connects the individual, the state, and its territory. The design of the EU’s Integrated Border Management (IBM) governance model eschews the applicability and enforceability of international and European human (fundamental) rights law by significantly reconfiguring the relationship between each of these three prongs. This contribution maps how these three traditional triggers for the applicability of human rights law are increasingly evaded in EU IBM policies, the responses to these evasion techniques and how a relational turn in the determination of human rights responsibility may be inevitable. 

Beyond Borders

The question of extraterritoriality has found a very particular application in contexts of migration. This renders the questions of which state has to fulfill human rights obligations while a migrant is on the move and to what extent very pressing ones. This symposium examines what the existing criteria for attribution exactly mean for states’ extraterritorial obligations and responsibility in a migration context and whether arguments from other fields of law could either inspire or be implemented beyond their respective borders.

Balancing Accountability and Legitimacy

As they have installed themselves as the de facto government of Afghanistan, the Taliban could theoretically be held accountable for potential crimes via inter-state proceedings. In practice however, that would run the risk of increasing the perceived legitimacy of the Taliban as the Afghan government. The announcement of Prosecutor Karim Ahmad Khan of the International Criminal Court on September 27 to resume investigations in Afghanistan in the form of criminal prosecution – and thus not as inter-state litigation – therefore deserves support.

Die Grenzen der Menschenrechte: Venice Academy of Human Rights 2012

Vom 9. bis 18. Juli wurde im alten Kloster San Nicolò auf dem Lido in Venedig über Menschenrechte und ihre Grenzen diskutiert. Die Organisatoren der Sommerakademie hatten hierfür einige große Namen des Völkerrechts und der Politischen Theorie  sowie Praktiker im Bereich des internationalen Menschenrechts- bzw. Flüchtlingsschutzes eingeladen – ein Wermutstropfen war die kurzfristige Absage von Seyla Benhabib. Auf die Vorlesungen und Seminare von vier der Vortragenden wird im Folgenden näher eingegangen werden. Die Kritik: Martti Koskenniemi Den Auftakt machte Martti Koskenniemi mit einer Vorlesung über Völkerrechtsgeschichtsschreibung und Eurozentrismus – und verschiedene Ansätze, diesem Problem zu begegnen. Damit war bereits der ... continue reading