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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

International Organizations or Institutions, Legal Remedies against Acts of Organs

Kirsten Schmalenbach

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Encyclopedia entries
Product:
Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
September 2017

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 28 March 2023

Subject(s):
Human rights remedies — Economic sanctions — Acts of international organizations — International organizations, practice and procedure — Regional organizations — Responsibility of international organizations — Remedies — Remedies and costs

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1Legal remedies are remedies provided by the law for the enforcement of a right when an illegal, detrimental, or harmful act is imposed on the complainant. The term ‘remedy’ unifies a procedural and a substantive concept: whereas the term ‘procedural remedy’ indicates the existence of remedial institutions and procedures to which the complainant has access in order to press his or her claim, ‘substantive remedy’ refers to the outcome of the processes and characterizes the redress and relief to which the complainant is entitled. 2Substantive remedies aim at...
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