The role played by the Kadi judgements to articulating the UN legal system with the EU legal system
The role played by the Kadi judgements to articulating the UN legal system with the EU legal system

Summary/Abstract: Relationships between Security Council resolutions and other international treaties have undergone different conceptualizations in EU and ECHR case law1: some of them relate to the monist concept according to which SC resolutions are at the top of a hierarchy of norms, as provided by Article 103 of the UN Charter, so that their provisions prevail over any other treaty, irrespective of their human rights content. Arguing differently would allow a regional court – for example the European Court of Human Rights – «to interfere with the fulfillment of the UN’s key mission to secure international peace and security». Other concepts claim that the measures implementing SC resolutions are not immune from judicial review when the resolution at hand is suspected to come in conflict with jus cogens norms that also constrain UN institutions. Thus the Kadi judgement played an extremely important role in the articulation of the UN legal system to the EU legal system.

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