Institutionalizing State Responsibility: Global Security and UN Organs
In his presentation, Vincent-Joël examined the role that United Nations organs can play in implementing the law of State responsibility in global security contexts, using transnational terrorism as principal case study. While the role of other relevant UN organs will be acknowledged, the crux of the analysis will focus on elucidating the interplay between the Security Council and State responsibility rules. In particular, he will argue that Security Council action can implicate State responsibility norms in at least three principal ways, if not more, some more obvious than others. By moving beyond the Security Council’s role as a post-9/11 legislator into the realm of normative enforcement, he will argue that the Council can play an important and sometimes determinant role in implementing a State’s legal responsibility for failing to prevent terrorism, both inside and outside the Chapter VII framework.
Vincent-Joël Proulx is Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law. Before joining NUS LAW, Vincent-Joël served a three-year term as Special Assistant to the President of the International Court of Justice in The Hague. He is the author of Institutionalizing State Responsibility: Global Security and UN Organs (Oxford University Press 2016) and Transnational Terrorism and State Accountability: A New Theory of Prevention (Hart Publishing 2012).