The primary aim of this research is to investigate whether the Draft Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations (ARIO) which were completed in 2011 are an effective means of making IOs accountable for international wrongdoing. In order to determine this a hypothetical case was created based on the imaginary scenario that the IMF required its member states to eliminate capital controls as a condition for obtaining loans from the organization. This hypothetical case is argued on behalf of the borrowing states and thus the thesis in part has the form of a legal pleading. This approach was deliberately taken in order to provide a practical example of how the ARIO could be applied to any case related to the responsibility of IOs, not just the one under consideration here. The case is first used to illustrate how the ARIO might be applied in order to determine whether an IO’s conduct amounts to international wrongdoing and results in international responsibility. Secondly, the case is employed to demonstrate whether the ARIO provide remedies for parties injured as a result of international wrongdoing committed by IOs thereby bringing the latter to accountability. At the end of the investigation it is apparent that conduct such as the IMF’s fictional conduct in relation to its policy would amount to international wrongdoing by an IO in light of the ARIO and would incur international responsibility. However, in the course of applying the ARIO to this fictional case, it becomes evident that although the ARIO are effective for establishing the international responsibility of IOs, they are ineffective as a means of making them accountable for any responsibility they incur because they provide various escapes from the legal consequences for international responsibility. It is therefore concluded that IOs are free to continue to engage in international wrongdoing with impunity despite the creation of the ARIO.

The Legality of Unilateral Countermeasures in International Law Abstract The aim of this thesis is to examine the legality of unilateral countermeasures in international law. The term refers to measures adopted by a State in response to a wrongful act committed by another State in order to induce the wrongdoing State to comply with its obligations of cessation and / or reparation. Given the decentralized character of contemporary international law, countermeasures represent the effective mechanism of enforcement equally available (at least formally) to all States to seek the restoration of the legal relationship with the responsible State. Nevertheless, like other forms of self-help, countermeasures are liable to abuse, which is only aggravated by the controversial history of reprisals and factual inequalities between States. For this reason, countermeasures are lawful only if certain conditions are met. These conditions, nowadays codified in Draft Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, are the main subject of interest of this thesis, which is divided into four chapters. Chapter One deals with the concept of State responsibility and the enforcement of international law. Chapter Two is concerned with the role of countermeasures in international law, the International Law...

La notion de « juridiction » au sens de l'art. 1 de la Convention européenne de sauvegarde des droits de l'homme et des libertés fondamentales est directement liée au problème plus ample de la mise en cause de la responsabilité des Etats contractants et, implicitement, au problème d'ordre procédural de la compétence de la Cour de Strasbourg. L'interdépendance de ces trois éléments a mené à une interprétation jurisprudentielle autonome du concept de «juridiction», qui reflète les efforts de la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme de concilier les différents rôles dans lesquelles l'Etat évolue sur la scène internationale. Vu que la mission de la Cour est celle de protéger les droits individuels, le défit auquel l'instance de Strasbourg doit répondre est celui de privilégier le rôle de « garant des droits de l'homme » de l'Etat, sans provoquer un déséquilibre fonctionnel ou relationnel des Etats parties à la Convention. La frontière entre équilibre et déséquilibre n'étant pas fixe, le concept de « juridiction » fonctionne en tant qu'axe élastique d'orientation du comportement des Etats, théoriquement gouverné par le principe de la liberté d'action, mais pratiquement encadré par l'obligation de garantir les droits consacrés par la Convention. / The « jurisdiction » concept as provided by Art. 1 of the European convention for human rights is directly connected to the more complex topic of attracting the responsibility of the States - party to such Convention and, implicitly, to the procedural matter of Strasbourg Court's competence. The interconnection between these elements has lead to an autonomous case-law interpretation of the « jurisdiction » concept, evidencing the efforts of the European court for human rights to conciliate the various roles played by the States on the international scene. Taking into account that the mission of the Court is to protect individual rights, the challenge that the Strasbourg court is facing consists in emphasizing the State's role of « human rights guarantor » without creating functional or relational misbalances for the States – party to the Convention. Since the borderline between balance and misbalance is not a fix one, the « jurisdiction » concept functions as a variable orientation axis for the State's conduct, theoretically governed by the freedom of action principle, which in practice is bordered by the general obligation to guarantee the rights established in the Convention.

The Responsiblity of International Organizations - Abstract The subject of this thesis is the responsibility of international organizations as a consequence of internationally wrongful acts, as a manifestation of international personality, and as the subject-matter of official and unofficial codification. This thesis defines the international organization as an intergovernmental organization, discusses the character of its international personality (universal and particular) and explains the legal nature of international responsibility, including the main differences between the responsibility of States and international organizations. The thesis then focuses on responsibility of international organizations in various branches of international public law - it discusses questions of contractual and tort liability, of attribution in UN peacekeeping missions, and of the rights of individuals to due process when dealing with responsibility of international organizations. The following is an analysis of the importance of codification of international law and the contribution of non-official codification activities for the work of the International Law Commission as the main codification organ of the United Nations. Draft articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations, which was, together with the...

Title of the thesis in English Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty and its implementation in Czech Republic Abstract This thesis deals with the international responsibility of the state for national activities in outer space, and more specifically with issues related to such responsibility as the interpretation of Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty and its implementation in national legislation, especially in the Czech Republic. The aim of this work is to comprehensively describe and then analyse the legal regime of space law, focusing on Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty and its effects on legal regulation in the Czech Republic. The first and second parts of the thesis present the general theory and development of space law, together with the presentation of the responsibility of the state under international public law, and in this case also subsequently described with reference to space law. The third part of the thesis focuses on the creation of Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty and analyses its provisions. It raises its issue, in particular, the vagueness of the terms contained in the article and this, consequently, constitutes a difference of interpretation of that article. This part also addresses the links of Article VI to Articles VII and VIII of the Outer Space Treaty. The fourth part...

Analisa a figura jurídica da Responsabilidade Internacional Estatal por violações aos direitos humanos, na teoria e na prática, com ênfase no Sistema Interamericano de Direitos Humanos. Para tanto, relata a evolução histórica do conceito de responsabilidade internacional e sua interação atual com os direitos humanos, assim como os elementos característicos, natureza jurídica e exceções destas possíveis violações por parte dos órgãos ou funcionários do Estado ao qual pertence à suposta vítima, seja nacional ou estrangeiro. Alega que no sistema Interamericano, existe uma desigualdade de legislações e falta de conscientização por parte dos Estados da importância que tem o respeito ao sistema regional de proteção dos direitos humanos ao qual voluntariamente se têm submetido. / It analyses the legal figure of the State International Responsibility for violations to the human rights, in the theory and in practice, with emphasis in the Inter-American System of Human Rights. In such a way, it tells the historical evolution of the concept of international responsibility and its current interaction with the human rights. Also, the characteristic elements, legal nature and exceptions for possible violations of the institutions or employees of the State witch belongs the supposed victim, either national or foreign. It claims that in Inter-American system an inequality of legislations exist, also, and awareness of the States about the importance that must be the respect to the regional system of protection of the human rights, witch voluntarily has been submitted.

Analisa a figura jurídica da Responsabilidade Internacional Estatal por violações aos direitos humanos, na teoria e na prática, com ênfase no Sistema Interamericano de Direitos Humanos. Para tanto, relata a evolução histórica do conceito de responsabilidade internacional e sua interação atual com os direitos humanos, assim como os elementos característicos, natureza jurídica e exceções destas possíveis violações por parte dos órgãos ou funcionários do Estado ao qual pertence à suposta vítima, seja nacional ou estrangeiro. Alega que no sistema Interamericano, existe uma desigualdade de legislações e falta de conscientização por parte dos Estados da importância que tem o respeito ao sistema regional de proteção dos direitos humanos ao qual voluntariamente se têm submetido. / It analyses the legal figure of the State International Responsibility for violations to the human rights, in the theory and in practice, with emphasis in the Inter-American System of Human Rights. In such a way, it tells the historical evolution of the concept of international responsibility and its current interaction with the human rights. Also, the characteristic elements, legal nature and exceptions for possible violations of the institutions or employees of the State witch belongs the supposed victim, either national or foreign. It claims that in Inter-American system an inequality of legislations exist, also, and awareness of the States about the importance that must be the respect to the regional system of protection of the human rights, witch voluntarily has been submitted.

Analisa a figura jurídica da Responsabilidade Internacional Estatal por violações aos direitos humanos, na teoria e na prática, com ênfase no Sistema Interamericano de Direitos Humanos. Para tanto, relata a evolução histórica do conceito de responsabilidade internacional e sua interação atual com os direitos humanos, assim como os elementos característicos, natureza jurídica e exceções destas possíveis violações por parte dos órgãos ou funcionários do Estado ao qual pertence à suposta vítima, seja nacional ou estrangeiro. Alega que no sistema Interamericano, existe uma desigualdade de legislações e falta de conscientização por parte dos Estados da importância que tem o respeito ao sistema regional de proteção dos direitos humanos ao qual voluntariamente se têm submetido. / It analyses the legal figure of the State International Responsibility for violations to the human rights, in the theory and in practice, with emphasis in the Inter-American System of Human Rights. In such a way, it tells the historical evolution of the concept of international responsibility and its current interaction with the human rights. Also, the characteristic elements, legal nature and exceptions for possible violations of the institutions or employees of the State witch belongs the supposed victim, either national or foreign. It claims that in Inter-American system an inequality of legislations exist, also, and awareness of the States about the importance that must be the respect to the regional system of protection of the human rights, witch voluntarily has been submitted.

Le traité de paix est un acte juridique de nature conventionnelle, conclu entre deux ou plusieurs États en vue de mettre fin à une guerre qui les oppose. Cependant, au regard des conditions de sa conclusion aussi bien que de son contenu, l’instrument présente un certain nombre de caractères peu compatibles avec le modèle classique du traité international. En effet, l’exigence d’une rencontre de volontés à la fois libres et égales se heurte tant à l’existence d’un recours préalable à la force qu’au défaut de réciprocité des droits et obligations convenus. Pour autant, l’instrument ne peut être réduit au simple enregistrement d’un rapport de forces entre les parties, au profit duquel le vainqueur dicterait arbitrairement ses conditions à un vaincu contraint de les accepter. Au contraire, la pratique révèle l’inscription du traité de paix dans un faisceau de mécanismes juridiques qui détermine en partie le contenu, le sens et la mesure des droits et obligations respectifs des belligérants. Essentiellement empruntés au droit de la responsabilité internationale et au droit de la sécurité collective, ces mécanismes invitent à envisager le traité de paix, non comme le produit de l’application exclusive du droit des traités, mais comme le résultat des exigences simultanées et potentiellement contradictoires de différents corps de règles. Cette approche dynamique de l’instrument permet de porter une lumière nouvelle sur les règles matérielles qui régissent la fin des conflits armés internationaux, autant que de mettre en question certaines représentations parfois hâtivement associées à la forme du traité international. / Peace treaty is an international legal act of a contractual nature, concluded by two or more States in order to end the war between them. Nevertheless, regarding both the circumstances of its conclusion and its content, this instrument is remotely compatible with the classical figure of international treaty. The requirement of free and equal wills faces both the existence of a prior use of force and the lack of reciprocity on the agreed rights and obligations. This does not mean that the instrument is solely the product of two forces confronting each other. In practice, the winner does not arbitrarily dictate its terms to a coerced vanquished. On the contrary, a peace treaty finds itself at the intersection of several legal mechanisms which partly determine the content and the extent of the respective rights and obligations of belligerents. Those mechanisms are mostly borrowed from the law of international responsibility and the law of collective security. They invite to consider the peace treaty not as the product of the exclusive application of the law of treaties, but as the result of simultaneous and potentially conflicting requirements of different bodies of rules. This dynamic approach of the instrument brings a new light on the substantive rules governing the end of international armed conflicts. It also permits to discuss certain representations sometimes hastily associated with the very concept of treaty.

This event revolves around some relevant aspects regarding the responsibility of the State at the international level, such as the effectiveness of the judgments of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the position of Peru in this international entity. / El presente evento gira en torno a algunos aspectos relevantes respecto a la responsabilidad del Estado a nivel internacional, tales como la eficacia de las sentencias de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos y la posición que tiene el Perú en esta entidad internacional.