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Mr. Antonios Tzanakopoulos

Mr. Antonios Tzanakopoulos
Associate Professor of
Public International Law
Faculty of Law
University of Oxford

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A. Legal Instruments

Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice, San Francisco, 26 June 1945.

Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Rome, 4 November 1950, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 213, p. 221.

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, New York, 16 December 1966, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 999, p. 171.

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, New York, 16 December 1966, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 993, p. 3.

International Law Commission, Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, 2001. 

International Law Commission, Draft Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations, 2011.


B. Jurisprudence

International Court of Justice

International Court of Justice, Reparation for Injuries Suffered in the Service of the United Nations, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J. Reports 1949, p. 174.

International Court of Justice, Certain Expenses of the United Nations, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J. Reports 1962, p. 151.

International Court of Justice, Legal Consequences for States of the Continued Presence of South Africa in Namibia (South West Africa) notwithstanding Security Council Resolution 276 (1970), Advisory Opinion, I.C.J. Reports 1971, p. 16.

International Court of Justice, Interpretation of the Agreement of 25 March 1951 between the WHO and Egypt, Advisory Opinion, I.C.J. Reports 1980, p. 73.

International Court of Justice, Questions of Interpretation and Application of the 1971 Montreal Convention arising from the Aerial Incident at Lockerbie (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v. United Kingdom), Provisional Measures, I.C.J. Reports 1992, p. 3.

International Court of Justice, Questions of Interpretation and Application of the 1971 Montreal Convention arising from the Aerial Incident at Lockerbie (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v. United Kingdom), Preliminary Objections, I.C.J. Reports 1998, p. 9.

European Union Courts

Court of First Instance, Case T-315/01, Yassin Abdullah Kadi v. Council of the European Union and Commission of the European Communities, [2005] E.C.R. II-3649.

Court of First Instance, Case T-228/02, Organisation des Modjahedines du peuple d’Iran v. Council of the European Union, [2006] E.C.R. II-4665.

Court of Justice, Joined Cases C-402/05 P and C-415/05 P, Yassin Abdullah Kadi and Al Barakaat International Foundation v. Council of the European Union and Commission of the European Communities, Judgment (Grand Chamber), [2008] E.C.R. I-6351.

General Court, Case T-85/09, Yassin Abdullah Kadi v. European Commission, [2010] ECR II-5177.

Court of Justice, Joined Cases C-584/10 P, C-593/10 P, and C-595/10 P, European Commission and Others v. Yassin Abdullah Kadi, Judgment (Grand Chamber), [2013] ECR I-0000.

European Court of Human Rights

European Court of Human Rights, Nada v. Switzerland, App no 10593/08, Judgment (Grand Chamber) of 12 September 2012.

European Court of Human Rights, Al-Dulimi and Montana Management Inc v. Switzerland, App no 5809/08, Judgment of 26 November 2013.

National Courts

United Kingdom, High Court of England and Wales, R (Othman) v. Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, [2001] EWHC Admin 1022.

Switzerland, Federal Tribunal, Youssef Mustapha Nada gegen SECO, Staatssekretariat für Wirtschaft (14 November 2007) 1A.45/2007; ILDC 461 (CH 2007).

Canada, Federal Court, Abousfian Abdelrazik v. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Attorney General of Canada, 2009 FC 580; ILDC 1332 (CA 2009).

United Kingdom, High Court of England and Wales, Hay v. Her Majesty’s Treasury, [2009] EWHC Admin 1677 (QB); ILDC 1367 (UK 2009).

United Kingdom, Supreme Court, Her Majesty’s Treasury v. Mohammed Jabar Ahmed and others (FC); Her Majesty’s Treasury v. Mohammed al-Ghabra (FC); R (Hani El Sayed Sabaei Youssef) v. Her Majesty’s Treasury, [2010] UKSC 2.


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