Le Conseil de Securité et le contrôle du juge

This article makes a comparison between the case law of international courts (already examined by the author in another contribution published in the "European Journal of International Law", 2009), and the case law of domestic courts concerning UN and EU targeted sanctions, adopted in the framework of the fight against terrorism. It argues that the said courts have adopted different theoretical approaches, as far as art. 103 of the United Nations Charter is concerned. These approaches are investigated in depth in paragraphs III and IV. In paragraph V, section A, some observations are submitted, aimed at explaining the (legal) reasons behind such different approaches. Some critical reflections focussed particularly on the general approach chosen by the domestic Courts are developed in the folloving section. Finally, the author argues that the theoretical model of the "Balancing of values", adopted by the European Court of Justice in the Kadi Judgment, could be followed also by domestic Courts (by having recourse to domestic constitutional values), in order to counterbalance the legal effects of anti-terrorism measures. Some domestic judgments going this way are examined in the (final) “Addendum”.