The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States as a Constitutional Court

Dr. Kangnikoé Bado LL.M. (Heidelberg)

doi:10.5771/9783748901808

Zusammenfassung

Eine der wichtigsten Innovationen der Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft Westafrikanischer Staaten (ECOWAS) ist die eindeutige Gewährung einer supranationalen Rolle an den Gerichtshof der Organisation. Sein Menschenrechtsmandat hat jedoch zu realen und potenziellen Spannungen innerhalb der ECOWAS-Rechtsordnung geführt.

Die Spannungen ergeben sich aus der Rechtskraft von Urteilen von Verfassungsgerichten der Mitgliedstaaten und der Zulässigkeit von Individualbeschwerden vor dem Gerichtshof. Diese Arbeit zeigt einige Mängel in der derzeitigen Regelung des Menschenrechtsmandats des Gerichtshofs auf. Lücken bestehen sowohl auf der Ebene der verfassungsmäßigen Ordnung der Mitgliedstaaten als auch auf der Ebene der Gemeinschaft. Die supranationale Menschenrechtsgerichtsbarkeit muss durch die Möglichkeit umgesetzt werden, konkrete Abhilfemaßnahmen zur Behebung von Menschenrechtsverletzungen an die betroffenen Mitgliedsstaaten anzuordnen. In dieser Arbeit werden innovative Lösungen vorgeschlagen, um prozessuale und substantielle Lücken im etablierten Menschenrechtsschutzsystem in Westafrika zu schließen.

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Copyrightjahr: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8487-6051-0
ISBN-Online: 978-3-7489-0180-8
Verlag: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 357
Produkttyp: Monographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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1. The ECOWAS Court of Justice as an International Court
2. The Jurisdiction of the Court of Justice
3. In particular: the Jurisdiction of the Court with regards to Human Rights since the Inception of the Additional Protocol of 2005
4. 1. Decision by the Togolese Constitutional Court
  2. Declaratory Judgment by the ECOWAS Court of Justice
  3. Interpretation of the Declaratory Judgment by the ECOWAS Court of Justice
5. 1. Contractual Foundations
  2. Teleological Interpretation
  3. The Problem of National Implementation
6. Limitation of Question and Structure
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1. The Initial Case under Municipal Law
2. 1. 1. 1. Irrevocability of the Decision in Principle
      2. Interdiction of deviation
      3. Possibility of a Rectification of Material Errors
      4. Resumption due to gross miscarriage of justice
      5. Delimitation with regard to future disputes
    2. 1. The principle of non-appealability
      2. Justification of non-appealability
      3. Need for legal protection as an exception
  2. 1. Object of Substantive res judicata
    2. 1. Extent of legal force
      2. Limits of legal force
    3. 1. Substantive res judicata as an obstacle to proceedings
      2. Admissibility in the presence of new causes of action
3. 1. Erga-omnes-Effect
  2. 1. The impact of the decision on the facts of the case
    2. The material impact of the decision
4. 1. Preliminary Question regarding the Object of the Dispute
  2. The prohibition of the imperative mandate and declaration of renunciation
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1. The Initial Case before the ECOWAS Court of Justice
2. 1. 1. Status of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, in particular, its independence
    2. Exclusive and ultimate power of decision-making competence
  2. Objections with regard to sovereignty
3. 1. Admissibility of the Individual Complaint before the ECOWAS Court of Justice
  2. 1. Those entitled to complain
    2. Object of the complaint (breach of primary duty, compare Art. 1 ECHR)
4. 1. Declaratory Judgment
  2. 1. Standards of a Judgment granting Reparation
    2. Enforcement Procedure
  3. Interpretative Judgments
  4. Not a Court of Cassation
  5. Appeal proceedings (de lege ferenda)
5. 1. 1. Literal Interpretation
    2. Systematic Interpretation
    3. Historical Interpretation
    4. Teleological Interpretation
    5. Principle of effectiveness and evolutive/dynamic interpretation
  2. 1. East African Court of Justice
    2. SADC Tribunal
    3. ECtHR
    4. The Inter-American Court
6. 1. Formal Legal Force
  2. 1. Extent of the Legal Force
    2. Objective limit of the legal force
    3. 1. Inter-partes-legal force
      2. Erga-omnes impact of the legal force in practice
    4. Time-boundary of the legal force
  3. 1. The obligation to cease and desist
    2. 1. Order to reinstate the initial proceedings in the operative part of the judgement
      2. Justification of the order to reinstate
    3. Obligation to take preventative measures
7. 1. 1. Inadmissibility of a national human rights complaint
    2. Strict prerequisites for admissibility for the human rights complaint
    3. The ECOWAS Court of Justice as guarantor of the effective protection of human rights
  2. 1. Elements of the complaint of a conflicted court
    2. Conflicted judges as a violation of the positive obligation of the Member State
  3. 1. Challenge to legal certainty
    2. 1. Landmark and pilot judgments as a possible solution
      2. The solution from the perspective of the national legal system
    3. Dialogue between both levels
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1. 1. 1. Question of rank
    2. Principle of reciprocity
  2. Binding Force in Anglophone Member States
  3. Principle of the convergence of constitutions
2. 1. 1. 1. Prerequisites for a resumption
      2. Justification of the obligation to resume
    2. Declaratory judgment by the ECOWAS Court of Justice as a prohibition of enforcement
    3. Effects Transcending the Individual Case
    4. ECOWAS Court of Justice Decisions as the basis for QPC
  2. 1. Indirect legal force for all state organs
    2. 1. The Constitutional Court as a state organ
      2. Role Model Function of the National Constitutional Court
      3. The possibility of a judgment in violation of human rights
3. 1. 1. Introduction of a new complaint procedure due to a breach of the obligation to implement
    2. 1. Applicability of the general rules of customary International law
      2. Sanction mechanisms in the ECOWAS legal order
  2. 1. Monitoring of the implementation
    2. Status of the implementation according to previous practice by the ECOWAS Court of Justice
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1. 1. 1. Legal basis of the self-restraint
    2. Implied authority
    3. Development of the law by International Courts
  2. 1. Object of dispute and party to the dispute before National and the ECOWAS Courts of Justice
    2. Confusion in the Excercise of Jurisdiction
    3. Confusion regarding the applicable law
  3. 1. The term marge Nationale d’appréciation
    2. 1. Procedural guarantees as a basis for other human rights
      2. Non-existence of a collision with National interests
      3. Procedural Guarantees as the resulting obligation
2. Concluding Comment
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