1st Edition

UN Territorial Administration and Human Rights The Mission in Kosovo

By Gjylbehare Bella Murati Copyright 2020
254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers an original and insightful analysis of the human rights inadequacies that arise in the practice of UN territorial administration by analysing and assessing the practice of UNMIK. It provides arguments based on law and principles to support the thesis that a comprehensive legal framework governing the activities of the UN mission is a crucial prerequisite for its proper... Read more

Introduction: the UNMIK's mandate in Kosovo

1. Making laws for others: managing complexity

2. The paradigm of an independent judicial system under international administration

3. The paradox of UNMIK’s justice system: measuring the performance of UNMIK’s courts and its quasi-judicial bodies

4. The extent of UNMIK’s authority on the ground

5. Between immunity and accountability: the immunity and privileges of UNMIK

6. Holding UNMIK accountable for human rights violations

7. General conclusions

Biography

Gjylbehare Bella Murati is Assistant Professor of International Relations and International Diplomatic Law at Haxhi Zeka University, Kosovo. She holds a PhD in law from Ghent University, Belgium, an LLM from Essex University, UK, and a BA in law from Universities of Prishtina, Kosovo, and Utrecht, the Netherlands. Previously she was an associate postdoctoral research fellow at Human Rights Centre in Ghent, Belgium, research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany, and visiting lecturer at the European inter-university centre for Human Rights and Democratization in Venice Lido, Italy.