Self-executing rules

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Provisions of international treaties whose direct application by the domestic legal system of a State is possible because they are sufficiently precise to provide a remedy in a given case.

OUTLINE

Chapter 13, II. 4. Legislation for application (introductory text)

Chapter 13, II. 4. a) self-executing and non-self-executing norms of IHL

CASES

United Kingdom, Interpreting the Act of Implementation

India, Rev. Mons. Monteiro v. State of Goa

Chile, Prosecution of Osvaldo Romo Mena

United States, United States v. Noriega (Part B.II.C)

France, Radio Mille Collines

United States, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld