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Unaccountable? The United Nations, Emergency Powers, And The Rule Of Law, Simon Chesterman
Unaccountable? The United Nations, Emergency Powers, And The Rule Of Law, Simon Chesterman
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
For a body committed to the rule of law in theory, the applicability of the rule of law to the United Nations in practice remains oddly unclear. This Article will not consider the personal responsibility of UN officials, who generally enjoy personal or functional immunity from legal process in the territories where they work. Rather the focus of this Article is on the quasi-constitutional question of the liability of the organization itself. As the United Nations has assumed more state-like functions-in particular through the coercive activities of its Security Council--the question of what limits exist on the powers thus exercised …