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Jus Cogens after Germany v. Italy: Substantive and Procedural Rules Distinguished

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2012

STEFAN TALMON
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Abstract

In the case concerning Jurisdictional Immunities of the State, the ICJ held that rules of jus cogens did not automatically displace hierarchically lower rules of state immunity. The Court's decision was based on the rationale that there was no conflict between these rules as the former were substantive rules while the latter were procedural in character. The ‘substantive–procedural’ distinction has been heavily criticized in the literature. Much of the criticism seems to be motivated by the unwanted result of the distinction, namely de facto impunity for the most serious human rights violations. This paper takes a step back from the alleged antinomy of human rights and state immunity and broadens the picture by looking at the relationship between substantive and procedural rules more generally. It is shown that substantive rules of a jus cogens character generally leave procedural rules unaffected and, in particular, do not automatically override such rules. Substantive rules may, however, have a limited effect upon the interpretation and application of procedural rules. It is argued that the ‘substantive–procedural’ distinction is well established in international law and makes eminent sense even when substantive rules of jus cogens and procedural rules of immunity are involved.

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hierarchyhuman rightsICJjus cogensstate immunity
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HAGUE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS: International Court of Justice
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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , December 2012 , pp. 979 - 1002
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Copyright © Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law 2012

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50 Jurisdictional Immunities of the State case, supra note 1, para. 93.

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58 See Special Tribunal for Lebanon, In the Matter of El Sayed, Case No. CH/PRES/2010/01, Order of the President Assigning Matter to Pre-Trial Judge, 15 April 2012, paras. 28–29, where President Cassese considered the right of access to justice as having jus cogens character. Contra de Wet and Vidma, ‘Conclusions’, supra note 16, 300 at 308 (right to access to court not having jus cogens status).

59 Interpretation of Peace Treaties with Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania (Second Phase), Advisory Opinion of 18 July 1950 [1950] ICJ Rep. 221, at 229.

60 See Statute of the International Court of Justice, Art. 25(1) and (3), Art. 41; ICJ Rules of Court, Art. 74(2) and (3).

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63 See Armed Activities case, supra note 5, at 24, para. 34; Jurisdictional Immunities of the State case, supra note 1, para. 95.

64 See, e.g., Legality of Use of Force (Serbia and Montenegro v. Germany), Preliminary Objections, Judgment of 15 December 2004, [2004] ICJ Rep. 720, at 754 para. 89, where the Court determined the question whether it was open to Serbia and Montenegro independently of any consideration of the jus cogens norm allegedly violated.

65 ICTY, Prosecutor v. Furundzija, Judgement, Case No. IT-95–17/1-T, T. Ch., 10 December 1998, para. 155. For locus standi being a question of jurisdiction, see East Timor (Portugal v. Australia), Judgment of 30 June 1995, [1995] ICJ Rep. 90, at 107 (Judge Oda, Separate Opinion).

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71 See ‘Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary General’, Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Status as of 19 May 2012, available online at www.treaties.un.org.

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75 Arrest Warrant case, supra note 5, at 24, para. 58. See also Jurisdictional Immunities of the State case, supra note 1, at 38, para. 95.

76 Emphasis added.

77 Contra the widely criticized Decisions of the ICC's Pre-Trial Chamber I Pursuant to Article 87(7) of the Rome Statute on the Failure by the Republic of Malawi and the Republic of Chad to Comply with the Cooperation Requests Issued by the Court with Respect to the Arrest and Surrender of Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir, Prosecutor v. Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir, ICC-02/05-01/09-139, 12 December 2011 and ICC-02/05-01/09-140, 13 December 2011, respectively. For a critique of the decisions, see D. Akande, ‘ICC Issues Detailed Decision on Bashir's Immunity (. . .At long Last . . .) But Gets the Law Wrong’, EJIL Talk!, 15 December 2011, available online at www.ejiltalk.org.

78 See Zaman, R., ‘Playing the Ace? Jus Cogens Crimes and Functional Immunity in National Courts’, (2010) 17 Australian International Law Journal, 53Google Scholar, at 70.

79 ICSID, Phoenix Action, Ltd. v. The Czech Republic, Case No. ARB/06/5, Award of 15 April 2009, para. 78.

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82 See, e.g., ICTY, Prosecutor v. Furundzija, supra note 65, paras. 153–157, with further references.

83 See Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, 213 UNTS 221, Art. 35(1).

84 Contra ICTY, Prosecutor v. Furundzija, supra note 65, para. 157.

85 See ILC Draft Articles on Diplomatic Protection, Arts. 3, 14, 15. For the text of the Articles, see UNGA Resolution 62/67, 6 December 2007, annex (UN Doc. A/RES/62/67, 8 January 2008). See also section 2.e, infra.

86 See Rome Statue of the ICC, Preamble, para. 10; Art. 1.

87 See Rome Statute of the ICC, Arts. 17 and 20(3). On complementarity as a condition of admissibility, see, e.g., J. Kleffner, Complementarity in the Rome Statute and National Criminal Jurisdictions (2008), 102–58.

88 See Rome Statute of the ICC, Art. 18(2).

89 East Timor case, supra note 65, at 102, para. 28.

90 Ibid., 92, para. 1.

91 See, e.g., Legal Consequences for States of the Continued Presence of South Africa in Namibia (South West Africa) notwithstanding Security Council Resolution 276 (1970), Advisory Opinion of 21 June 1971 [1971] ICJ Rep., 16, at 89–90 (Judge Ammoun, Separate Opinion); Armed Activities case, supra note 5, at 89, para. 10 (Judge ad hoc Dugard, Separate Opinion). See also Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Advisory Opinion of 9 July 2004, [2004] ICJ Rep., 136, at 200, para. 159, where the Court attached consequences to the violation of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination that are usually reserved for serious breaches of obligations under peremptory norms of general international law.

92 Armed Activities case, supra note 5, at 32, para. 64.

93 See ILC, Draft Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (hereinafter ARSIWA), Commentary on Art. 44, UN Doc. A/56/10, 2001, 305, para. 1.

94 There is no indication either in the ILC's Articles or in its Commentary that these requirements were to be limited to cases of diplomatic protection.

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99 Contra A. Orakhelashvili, ‘Review of “Jurisdiction of International Tribunals”’, supra note 28, at 432.

100 Arrest Warrant case, supra note 5, 19, para. 43; and ibid., 66–67 (Judges Higgins, Kooijmans, and Buergenthal, Joint Separate Opinion).

101 See the Separate Opinion of Judge Schücking in the Oscar Chinn case: ‘It is an essential principle of any court, whether national or international, that the judges may only recognize legal rules which they hold to be valid’, Oscar Chinn case, Judgment of 12 December 1934, PCIJ Rep Series [A/B], No. 63, 64 at 149. See also Verdross, A., ‘Forbidden Treaties in International Law’, (1937) 31 AJIL 571CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at 577; Verzjil, J., ‘La validité et la nullité des actes juridiques internationaux’, (1935) 15 RDI 284Google Scholar, at 321–2.

102 Contra Orakhelashvili, A., ‘The International Court and Its “Freedom to Select the Ground upon Which It Will Base Its Judgment”’, (2007) 56 ICLQ 171CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at 179, n. 26.

103 For the procedural nature of these rules, see L. S. Sunga, The Emerging System of International Criminal Law (1997), 258.

104 See Dinstein, Y., ‘Some Reflections on Extradition’, (1993) 36 GYIL 46Google Scholar, at 54.

105 See ICJ Rules of Court, Art. 75(1). See also ITLOS, M/V ‘Saiga’ (No. 2) (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines v. Guinea), Provisional Measures, ITLOS Reports 1998, 24 at 61 (Judge Laing, Separate Opinion), who suggested as one of the criteria to be taken into account when deciding on the prescription of provisional measures ‘the magnitude of the underlying global public order value, e.g., such possibly jus cogens values as global peace and security or environmental protection’.

106 See South West Africa Cases (Ethiopia v. South Africa; Liberia v. South Africa), Preliminary Objections, Judgment of 21 December 1962, [1962] ICJ Rep. 319, at 455 (Judge Winiarski, Dissenting Opinion).

107 For an overview of the Court's jurisprudence, see, e.g., A. Paulus, Die internationale Gemeinschaft im Völkerrecht (2001), 364–79; C. Tams, Enforcing Obligations Erga Omnes in International Law (2005), 162–92; M. Payandeh, Internationales Gemeinschaftsrecht (2010), 395–9.

108 See, e.g., Simma, B., ‘From Bilateralism to Community Interest in International Law’, (1994-VI) 250 RdC 217Google Scholar, at 296–7; Tomuschat, C., ‘International Law: Ensuring the Survival of Mankind on the Eve of a New Century’, (1999) 281 RdC 1Google Scholar, at 82–3; Payandeh (n. 105), 401, with further references.

109 ‘Fragmentation of International Law: Difficulties Arising from the Diversification and Expansion of International Law’, Report of the Study Group of the ILC, UN Doc. A/CN.4/682, 13 April 2006, 204, para. 404. See also Bundesverfassungsgericht, Decision of the 4th Chamber of the Second Senate of 12 December 2000, 2 BvR 1290/99, Neue Juristische Wochenschrift 2001, 1848, at 1849.

110 Bundesverfassungsgericht, Decision of the Second Senate of 26 October 2004, 2 BvR 955/00, 1038/01, BVerfGE 112, 1 at 27 (translation by the author).

111 Cf. Tams, C., ‘Waiver, Acquiescence and Extinctive Prescription’, in Crawford, J.et al. (eds.), The Law of International Responsibility (2010), 1035Google Scholar at 1042.

112 ILC ARSIWA, supra note 93, Art 48(1)(b).

113 The waiver of a claim against the wrongdoing state must be distinguished from the waiver of a right.

114 ILC ARSIWA, supra note 93, Arts. 48(3), 45(a).

115 In case of implicit waiver there may be an overlap with the concept of acquiescence.

116 Cf. ‘State Responsibility: Comments and Observations Received from Governments’, UN Doc. A/CN.4/515, 19 March 2001, 72 (United Kingdom).

117 ILC ARSIWA, supra note 93, Commentary on Art, 45, UN Doc. A/56/10, 2001, 307, para. 2.

118 Cf. Bundesverfassungsgericht, Decision of the Second Senate of 26 October 2004, 2 BvR 955/00, 1038/01, BVerfGE 112, 1 at 35 (translation by the author).

119 The loss of right by way of express agreement or acquiescence only occurs with regard to Arts. 46–50 and Arts. 60–2 but not with regard to Arts. 53 and 64, which deal with treaties conflicting with jus cogens. See also 1966 YILC Vol. 2, 240, para. 5.

120 See ILC ARSIWA, supra note 93, Arts. 42, 48(1). In this context, it is of interest to note that the proposed Draft Article 4 of the ILC Articles on Diplomatic Protection, which, in case of an injury resulting from a grave breach of a jus cogens norm, provided for a duty of the state of nationality to grant diplomatic protection, was dropped from the final Articles on Diplomatic Protection; see 2000 YILC Vol. 2/2, 77–9.

121 Bundesverfassungsgericht, Decision of the Second Senate of 26 October 2004, 2 BvR 955/00, 1038/01, BVerfGE 112, 1 at 32 (translation by the author).

122 Cf. ILC ARSIWA, Commentary on Art. 45, UN Doc. A/56/10, 2001, 308, para. 4.

123 See ILC ARSIWA, Commentary on Art. 48, UN Doc. A/56/10, 2001, 323, para. 12. See also ‘Third Report on State Responsibility by Mr. James Crawford, Special Rapporteur, Addendum’, UN Doc. A/CN.4/507/Add.2, 10 July 2000, 13, para. 251.

124 See ILC ARSIWA, Commentary on Art. 45, UN Doc. A/56/10, 2001, 307, para. 1.

125 Cf. Bundesverfassungsgericht, Decision of the Second Senate of 26 October 2004, 2 BvR 955/00, 1038/01, BVerfGE 112, 1 at 36 (translation by the author).

126 Cf. Feichtner, I., ‘Waiver’, in Wolfrum, R. (ed.), The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Vol. 10 (2012), 747Google Scholar, at 749 MN 14.

127 See also the Definition of Aggression, Art. 5(3) of which provides that ‘no territorial acquisition or special advantage resulting from aggression is or shall be recognized as lawful’ (UN Doc. A/RES/3314 (XXIX), 14 December 1974), and Principle 1, para. 10 of the Declaration of Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Co-Operation among States in Accordance with the Charter of the United Nations (UN Doc. A/RES/2625 (XXV), 24 October 1970).

128 ILC ARSIWA, supra note 93, Arts. 48(3), 45(b). For the meaning of recognition ‘as lawful’, see text at note 142infra.

129 Schwarzenberger, supra note 27 565–70. See also Territorial Dispute (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya/Chad), CR 93/29, 8 July 1993, 48 (D. W. Bowett for Libya).

130 Certain Phosphate Lands in Nauru (Nauru v. Australia), Preliminary Objections, Judgment of 26 June 1992, [1992] ICJ Rep. 1992, 240 at 253–4, para. 32.

131 Ibid., paras. 31, 36.

132 See Oppenheim, L., International Law, Vol. 1 (ed. Lauterpacht, H., 1955), 349–50Google Scholar.

133 See Vienna Convention of the Law of Treaties, supra note 53, Art 53.

134 See ILC ARSIWA, Commentary on Art. 45, UN Doc. A/56/10, 2001, 307, para. 1.

135 There is also a certain overlap between the concepts of waiver, acquiescence, and estoppel.

136 Brown, C., ‘A Comparative and Critical Assessment of Estoppel in International Law’, (1996) 50 University of Miami Law Review 369Google Scholar, at 412.

137 Wagner, M. L., ‘Jurisdiction by Estoppel in the International Court of Justice’, (1986) 74 CLR 1777CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at 1777.

138 For a restrictive notion of estoppel, see Cottier, T. and Müller, J. P., ‘Estoppel’, in Wolfrum, R. (ed.), The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Vol. 3 (2012), 671–7Google Scholar.

139 Gabčíkovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary/Slovakia), Judgment of 25 September 1997, [1997] ICJ Rep. 7, at 88 (Judge Weeramantry, Separate Opinion). Judge Weeramantry had adopted the broad notion of estoppel; see ibid., at 116–18.

140 Ibid., at 118.

141 See, e.g., Doehring, K., ‘Zum Rechtsinstitut der Verwirkung im Völkerrecht’, in Böckstiegel, K.-H.et al. (eds.), Völkerrecht, Recht der internationalen Organisationen, Weltwirtschaftsrecht: Festschrift für Ignaz Seidl-Hohenveldern (1988), 51Google Scholar at 57, 59.

142 See Talmon, S., ‘The Duty Not to “Recognize as Lawful” a Situation Created by the Illegal Use of Force or Other Serious Breaches of a Jus Cogens Obligation: An Obligation without Real Substance?’, in Tomuschat, C. and Thouvenin, J.-M. (eds.), The Fundamental Rules of the International Legal Order (2005), 99CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at 114–16.

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144 Jurisdictional Immunities of the State case, supra note 1, para. 294 (Judge Cançado Trindade, Dissenting Opinion).

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