ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the domestic effect and reception of the United Nations (UN) Security Council's practices. Some states' domestic reception may carry 'monist' traditions if international law has validity at the domestic level without enacting domestic legislation, while other states may have the 'dualist' tradition that requires a piece of implementing legislation for international law to be domestically valid. One of the phenomena that characterise the changing distance between the UN Security Council's exercise of authority and individuals is the Council's demand under Chapter VII addressed to a certain category of individuals. In fact, some individuals have availed themselves of a diplomatic initiative of their own government in order to be delisted by the UN's sanctions list. The affected individuals' contestations at the domestic level thrived with respect to targeted sanctions for which member states were required to take measures under their own domestic law.
