Anti-Terrorism Resolutions: The Security Council’s Threat to the UN System

Authors

  • Fraser Galloway

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15664/jtr.231

Keywords:

Law, United Nations

Abstract

The United Nations Security Council’s anti-terrorism regime constitutes a serious threat to the legitimacy and unity of the United Nations system as a whole. Recent European Court of Justice jurisprudence emphasises that Security Council resolutions which breach human rights norms will not be enforced by member states. The Security Council has insufficient internal checks to ensure that it passes resolutions which sufficiently respect human rights norms. Judicial review is therefore required on the part of the International Court of Justice to ensure that the Security Council passes resolutions which remain effective and do not bring the United Nations system into disrepute.

Author Biography

Fraser Galloway

Fraser Galloway graduated in 2010 with an LL.B. (Hons) from the University of Glasgow. He spent a year on exchange at the National University of Singapore where he was taught by Professors Chesterman and Beckman in comparative law and international law. He is currently undertaking the Legal Practice Course at BPP Law School, London before starting a training contract with Hogan Lovells LLP. He represented BPP at the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. His article, The Evolution of the Jihad Doctrine: Can Modern Islamic Terrorism Be Justified in Terms of Classical Jihad? was published in the 2010 edition of Groundings, an undergraduate interdisciplinary journal in the arts, humanities and social sciences published by the University of Glasgow Dialectic Society with the support of the University’s Chancellor’s Fund (available at http://www.groundings.co.uk/Content/2010edition/Evolution of Jihad Doctrine.pdf). This article is based upon his undergraduate dissertation, supervised by Professor Christian J. Tams.

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Published

2011-11-11

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 3 (2011)

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