States Immunity in the Light of the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine

Seifzadeh, Farzaneh; Zamani, Seyed Ghasem; Savari, Hasan; Raei, Masoud

doi:10.22059/jplsq.2018.208576.1274

Authors

¹ Ph.D. Student in International Law, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran

² Visiting Prof., Department of International Law, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran

³ Assistant Prof., Department of International Law, Tarbiat Modarres University, Iran

⁴ Associate Prof., Department of International Law, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jplsq.2018.208576.1274

Abstract

State immunity roots in the sovereignty and equality of States. Namely, the immunity means the impossibility of exercising the jurisdiction of domestic Courts over foreign States. Following the developments of the human rights, interventions have made in the internal affairs of States under the responsibility to protect doctrine that created challenges on the State sovereignty, and has raised in mind the question of whether the responsibility to protect doctrine will be a barrier for the implementation of the principle of the State immunity? In answering this question, by the separation of the procedural rules from the substantive rules can be seen the procedural rules such as State immunity do not conflict with the substantive rules governing the nature of the claim. The real source of the human rights litigation is, ignoring the forum State to enforce its jurisdiction in relation to the human rights cases, and to the extent that is concerned to the human rights violations, the State immunity and jus cogens values do not conflict with each other.

Keywords

20.1001.1.24238120.1397.48.1.7.4

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Public Law Studies Quarterly

States Immunity in the Light of the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine

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Volume 48, Issue 1
April 2018
Pages 121-138

States Immunity in the Light of the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine

References

References

Volume 48, Issue 1April 2018Pages 121-138

Volume 48, Issue 1
April 2018
Pages 121-138