Proportionality

in Crawford, Pellet & Olleson (eds), The Law of International Responsibility (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) 1157–1168

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Roger O'Keefe

Bocconi University - Department of Law

Date Written: 2010

Abstract

The article provides a succinct analytical account of the rule of the law of State responsibility by which countermeasures are lawful only if 'commensurate with the injury suffered, taking into account the gravity of the internationally wrongful act and the rights in question'—that is, only if proportionate. It examines the rationale for the rule, elaborates on the problematic relationship posited in the rule between 'quantitative' and 'qualitative' injury, and emphasizes the inescapable inexactitude of the rule's proportionality calculus. The article concludes with a brief examination of the lex specialis represented by the WTO regime of so-called 'countermeasures'

Keywords: international responsibility, proportionality

JEL Classification: K33

Suggested Citation

O'Keefe, Roger, Proportionality (2010). in Crawford, Pellet & Olleson (eds), The Law of International Responsibility (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010) 1157–1168, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3496693 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3496693

Roger O'Keefe (Contact Author)

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