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Trialogical Subsidiarity in International and Comparative Law: Engagement with International Treaties by Sub-State Entities as Resistance or Innovation

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LUCAS LIXINSKI
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Abstract

This article proposes a new model for the engagement of sub-state units with the international legal order. “Trialogical subsidiarity” acknowledges that some areas are best regulated locally, but it also argues that international law has an increasing say in areas traditionally reserved for local law. The implementation of an international cultural heritage treaty by constituent units (CUs) in federal states, despite objections of the federal authorities, is a case study for the possibilities and implications of the use of international law by CUs without the filtering of the central state. This use enhances the legitimacy of international law and can lead to better outcomes for local populations, moving international law closer to its promise of being a law of peoples rather than of states.

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Cet article propose un nouveau modèle d’engagement par les unités infranationales dans l’ordre juridique international. La « subsidiarité trialogique » reconnaît que certains domaines sont mieux réglementés au niveau local, mais soutient également que le droit international a un droit de regard croissant dans les domaines traditionnellement réservés au droit local. La mise en œuvre d’un traité international sur le patrimoine culturel par les unités constituantes (UC) d’États fédéraux, malgré les objections des autorités fédérales, présente une étude de cas sur les possibilités et les enjeux du recours au droit international par les UC sans le filtre de l’État central. Ce recours renforce la légitimité du droit international et peut conduire à de meilleurs résultats pour les populations locales, rapprochant ainsi le droit international de son potentiel comme loi des peuples plutôt que des États.

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Subsidiarityfederalismforeign affairstreaty implementationcultural heritageUNESCOintangible cultural heritageCanadaAustraliaQuébecSubsidiaritéfédéralismeaffaires étrangèresmise en œuvre de traitéspatrimoine culturelUNESCOpatrimoine culturel immatérielCanadaAustralieQuébec
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Canadian Yearbook of International Law/Annuaire canadien de droit international , Volume 55 , October 2018 , pp. 1 - 32
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123 As discussed by personal communication with Antoine Gauthier (23 October 2017), who led the efforts within Québec for ICH legislation.. Convention on the Protection and the Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, 20 October 2005, 2440 UNTS 311 (entered into force 18 March 2007).

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126 Québec Heritage Act, supra note 22, s 2: “‘[P]atrimoine immatériel’: les savoir-faire, les connaissances, les expressions, les pratiques et les représentations transmis de génération en génération et recréés en permanence, en conjonction, le cas échéant, avec les objets et les espaces culturels qui leur sont associés, qu’une communauté ou un groupe reconnaît comme faisant partie de son patrimoine culturel et dont la connaissance, la sauvegarde, la transmission ou la mise en valeur présente un intérêt public.”

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131 Victoria Heritage Act, supra note 21, s 79B.

132 For a general discussion, see Lucas Lixinski & Louise Buckingham, “Propertization, Safeguarding and the Cultural Commons: The Turf Wars of Intangible Cultural Heritage and Traditional Cultural Expressions” in Valentina Vadi & Bruno de Witte, eds, Culture and International Economic Law (London: Routledge 2015) 160.

133 Victoria Heritage Act, supra note 21, s 12(a).

134 Ibid, s 79C.

135 Ibid, s 79D.

136 Ibid, ss 79G (absence of contract) and 79H (non-compliance with terms of contract).

137 Government of Victoria, Registering Aboriginal Intangible Heritage, online: <https://www.vic.gov.au/aboriginalvictoria/heritage/aboriginal-intangible-heritage-in-victoria/registering-aboriginal-intangible-heritage.html>.

138 Antoine Gauthier, “Medir el Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial: Enfoques, desafíos y retos” (manuscript on file with the author).

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141 Ibid at 134.

142 On the Australian position, see Bevins, supra note 122.

143 Knop, supra note 18 at 136–38.

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