Kato Akira
INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES 大阪大学国際公共政策学会 16 (2) 121 - 134 1342-8101 2012/03
Recently, much attention has been placed on Article 103 of the UN Charter, which provides for the Charter's supremacy. After the Cold War, the UN Security Council has on many occasions invoked Article 103, by which obligations to implement sanctions prevail over other international agreements. However, that article contains a number of uncertainties in its legal structure. Against such a background, this paper seeks to clarify some of the main uncertainties. Part (1) of the paper discusses the codification process of Article 103 and examines the legal meaning of "prevail".