Extraterritoriality in international human rights law: back to the jurisdictional drawing board

Samantha Besson

Chapter 16 in Research Handbook on Extraterritoriality in International Law, 2023, pp 269-291 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter examines the extraterritoriality or extraterritorial application (as opposed to the mere extraterritorial impact or effects) of international human rights law. Recognizing that providing an exhaustive critical survey of the vast and rich literature and case law on the extraterritoriality of human rights is beyond the chapter’s scope, it makes four contributions. First, it distinguishes between the “extraterritoriality” of international human rights law and the “extraterritoriality” of domestic law under international law at stake in other chapters in the volume. Second, it revisits the notion of (territorial and extraterritorial) human rights jurisdiction under international law. Third, the chapter explores the relations between human rights jurisdiction thus interpreted and jurisdiction stricto sensu in general. Finally, it addresses those relations in the extraterritorial context more specifically.

Keywords: Law - Academic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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