Recourse for Violations of International Law

• Author: John H. Currie; Craig Forcese; Joanna Harrington; Valerie Oosterveld
• Pages: 725-725

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Part iV

Recourse for Violations of International Law

INTRODUCTION

In this Part we concentrate on steps open to states or the international community in response

to violations of international law. In discussing substantive international law throughout

these materials, we have already incidentally touched on a number of fora that may be in a

position to grant remedies for such violations, including the International Court of Justice

(ICJ) and other international tribunals or arbitral bodies, the UN Security Council, the various

human rights bodies, and, in limited circumstances, domestic civil and criminal courts. Our

focus here, however, is on a number of specic international legal regimes that deine the

remedies that may be available in these and other fora.

Thus, in Chapter , we examine the concept of “state responsibility” — essentially, a gen-

eralized theory of state liability for conduct contrary to international law. In Chapter  we

consider economic sanctions as a response to state violations of international law. In Chap-

ter  we examine the limited circumstances in which armed force may still be used, and by

whom, to secure or restore compliance with international law. Finally, in Chapter  we shift

our focus from the state to the individual in examining international criminal law as a system

of accountability for individual perpetrators of international crimes.