State responsibility for human right violations in cases of transboundary environmental harm: A new concept of extraterritoriality regarding the application of international human rights treaties?

The paper provides an in-depth analysis of the issue of extraterritorial application of human rights treaties in the specific context of transboundary environmental harm. The classic criteria for extraterritorial jurisdiction established through the landmark judgments of the European Court of Human...

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Main Author: Čučković Bojana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Law, Niš 2020-01-01
Series:Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu
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Online Access:https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0350-8501/2020/0350-85012089015Q.pdf
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description The paper provides an in-depth analysis of the issue of extraterritorial application of human rights treaties in the specific context of transboundary environmental harm. The classic criteria for extraterritorial jurisdiction established through the landmark judgments of the European Court of Human Rights are revisited and compared with the extensive extraterritoriality threshold introduced by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in its 2017 advisory opinion on environment and human rights. The author examines the features, requirements and limits of the new extraterritoriality threshold which is based on the effective control over intraterritorial activities that result in extraterritorial human rights' violations. The paper attempts to offer arguments for perceiving the new extraterritoriality threshold as a general standard of international human rights, as well as to examine whether it represents a (mis)interpretation of the duty to prevent transboundary environmental harm as a well-established rule of international environmental law. The author also discusses the prospects of expanding the application of the new jurisdictional threshold to other areas not necessarily linked to environmental degradation.
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spelling doaj.art-effb1655303f4afabee63ea1f90c9d242022-12-21T22:06:03ZengFaculty of Law, NišZbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu0350-85012560-31162020-01-015989153410.5937/zrpfn0-286360350-85012089015QState responsibility for human right violations in cases of transboundary environmental harm: A new concept of extraterritoriality regarding the application of international human rights treaties?Čučković Bojana0Univerzitet u Beogradu, Pravni fakultet, SerbiaThe paper provides an in-depth analysis of the issue of extraterritorial application of human rights treaties in the specific context of transboundary environmental harm. The classic criteria for extraterritorial jurisdiction established through the landmark judgments of the European Court of Human Rights are revisited and compared with the extensive extraterritoriality threshold introduced by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in its 2017 advisory opinion on environment and human rights. The author examines the features, requirements and limits of the new extraterritoriality threshold which is based on the effective control over intraterritorial activities that result in extraterritorial human rights' violations. The paper attempts to offer arguments for perceiving the new extraterritoriality threshold as a general standard of international human rights, as well as to examine whether it represents a (mis)interpretation of the duty to prevent transboundary environmental harm as a well-established rule of international environmental law. The author also discusses the prospects of expanding the application of the new jurisdictional threshold to other areas not necessarily linked to environmental degradation.https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0350-8501/2020/0350-85012089015Q.pdfextraterritorial jurisdictiontransboundary environmental harmhuman rightseffective controlinter-american court of human rightseuropean court of human rights
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State responsibility for human right violations in cases of transboundary environmental harm: A new concept of extraterritoriality regarding the application of international human rights treaties?
Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu
extraterritorial jurisdiction
transboundary environmental harm
human rights
effective control
inter-american court of human rights
european court of human rights
title State responsibility for human right violations in cases of transboundary environmental harm: A new concept of extraterritoriality regarding the application of international human rights treaties?
title_full State responsibility for human right violations in cases of transboundary environmental harm: A new concept of extraterritoriality regarding the application of international human rights treaties?
title_fullStr State responsibility for human right violations in cases of transboundary environmental harm: A new concept of extraterritoriality regarding the application of international human rights treaties?
title_full_unstemmed State responsibility for human right violations in cases of transboundary environmental harm: A new concept of extraterritoriality regarding the application of international human rights treaties?
title_short State responsibility for human right violations in cases of transboundary environmental harm: A new concept of extraterritoriality regarding the application of international human rights treaties?
title_sort state responsibility for human right violations in cases of transboundary environmental harm a new concept of extraterritoriality regarding the application of international human rights treaties
topic extraterritorial jurisdiction
transboundary environmental harm
human rights
effective control
inter-american court of human rights
european court of human rights
url https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0350-8501/2020/0350-85012089015Q.pdf
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