Intertwining consular and human rights law: a european contribution to the humanisation of international law

• Autor(a) principal: Petit de Gabriel, Eulalia W.
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Espaço Jurídico/Espaço Jurídico Journal of Law
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unoesc.edu.br/espacojuridico/article/view/27700
• topic: consular assistance rights; human rights law; Jadhav case; humanisation of international law; European Court of Human Rights; Direitos de assistência consular.; Direitos humanos.; Caso Jadhav.; Humanização do direito internacional.; Tribunal Europeu dos Direitos Humanos.

In the context of Article 36.1 (b) of the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (VCCR’63) interpretation by the International Court of Justice and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, this paper helps to clarify how European Law developments reinforce a renewed understanding of Article 36 VCCR ’63 as regards its interaction with Human Rights Law. How could a developing case law of the European Court of Human Rights linking individual consular rights with several different rights guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights—along with the European Union’s quasi-constitutional normative approach, including consular rights within citizenship rights and due process common guarantees—condition the strongly State-centred interpretation of Article 36 VCCR ’63 by the International Court of Justice? The need for a reflection on an interpretative framework for a possible evolutionary, practice-based and teleological approach is highlighted by the recent ICJ’s decision on the Jadhav case (India v. Pakistan).