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Accountability of International Organizations: Some Salient Features

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Karel Wellens
Karel Wellens*
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Public International Law and the Law of International Organisations, Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen
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Can International Organizations Be Controlled? Accountability and Responsibility
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 97 , 2003 , pp. 241 - 245
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2003

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2 Council of Europe, European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Nov. 4, 1950, Art. 1.

3 See Matthews v. UK, 1999-1 Eur. Ct. H.R. 253 (1999).

4 Difference Relating to Immunity from Legal Process of a Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights, Advisory Opinion, 1999 ICJ Rep. 62, 88, para. 66.

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7 See 1321st meeting: Draft Articles Submitted by the Special Rapporteur—Article 9, 1975 Y.B. ILC 88, 89-90.

8 Report of the International Law Commission, UN Gaor, 55th Sess., Suppl. No. 10, para. 478, UN Doc. A/57/10 (2002), available at <http://www.un.org/law/ilc/reports/2002/english/chp8e.pdf> [hereinafter 2002 ILC Report].

9 James Crawford, the International Law Commission’s Articles on State Responsibility: Introduction, Text and Commentaries 311 (2002), at para. 4.

10 Id., para. 5.

11 2002 ILC Report, supra note 4, para. 476.

12 Crawford, supra note 9, at 310, para. 3.

13 Id. at 311, para. 3.

11 See 2002 ILC Report, supra note 4, para. 482.

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17 Higgins, Rosalyn, The Responsibility of States Members for the Defaults of International Organizations: Continuing the Dialogue, in Liber Amicorum Ibrahim Shihata, 440-48, at 446 (Schlemmer-Schulte, S. & Tung, Ko-Yung eds., 2001)Google Scholar.

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19 2002 ILC Report, supra note 4, para. 486.

20 Philip C Jessup, A Modern Law of Nations: An Introduction 25 (1948).

21 Sabine Schlemmer-Schulte, The World Bank Inspection Panel: A Model for other International Organizations?, in Proliferation of International Organizations. Legal Issues 483,508 (N. Blokker & H. Schermers eds., 2001).

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