The positive obligations of the state under the European Convention of Human Rights / / Dimitris Xenos

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779024603321
• Autore: Xenos Dimitris.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-136-66443-2; 1-280-66062-7; 9786613637550; 0-203-80781-2; 1-136-66444-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (266 p.)
• Collana: Routledge research in human rights law
• Disciplina: 341.4/8094
• Soggetti: Human rights - Europe; International and municipal law - Europe
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; The Positive Obligations of the State under the European Convention of Human Rights; Copyright Page; Contents; Table of Cases; Table of Legal instruments; Foreword; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. The working base; 1.1 What's right and what's wrong with positive obligations; 1.2 Overview of chapters; 1.3 Basic issues of context and subject matter; 1.3.1 The distinctiveness of human rights; 1.3.2 International responsibility and the general scope of human rights protection; 1.3.2.1 Article 1; 1.3.2.2 Title; 1.3.3 The nature and structure of the Convention rights: the centrality of private life/personality as a core value1.3.4 The object and purpose of the Convention; 1.4 The doctrinal justification of positive obligations; 1.4.1 Early studies; 1.4.2 The first positive obligations cases; 1.4.2.1 X and Y; 1.4.2.2 Marchx; 1.4.2.3 Airey; 1.4.3 Subsequent studies; 1.4.3.1 The horizontality issue: forced or dangerous?; 1.4.4 The substantive debate: the co(i)nstitutional guarantees; 1.4.4.1 The national constitutional debate; 1.4.4.2 The drittwirkung proposal; 1.4.4.3 The international debate: international responses to international phemomena1.5 The on-going debate: re-evaluating the ; subsidiary function of the court; 2. The application and development of positive obligations; 2.1 Establishing the distinctive nature and potential of positive obligations in the current reasoned phase of the jurisprudence; 2.1.1 The merging of positive and negative obligations: the fair balance test; 2.1.2 The proposal to determine positive obligations under the paragraph 2 provisions; 2.1.3 The stages before the balance test; 2.1.4 A firm distinction between positive and negative obligations2.1.5 The perspective of human rights protection: the rule or the exception - the contextual or the ad hoc response?; 2.2 The wider and common justification of the state's obligations: the critical element of knowledge of the need of human rights; 2.2.1 The element of knowledge in negative obligations cases; 2.2.1.1 Express knowledge from direct interference with known results; 2.2.1.2 Implied knowledge from incidental interference withknown or predictable results; 2.2.1.3 Express or implied knowledge by context and comparative examples2.2.1.4 Express knowledge from express complaints; 2.2.1.5 Express knowledge from previous decisions of non-justifiability of the interference; 2.2.2 The element of knowledge in positive obligations cases; 2.2.2.1 Implied knowledge from a known context of private parties' interactions; 2.2.2.2 Implied knowledge from previous incidents or comparative examples; 2.2.2.3 Express knowledge of an identifiable threat; 2.2.2.4 Express knowledge from express complaints; 2.2.3 The autonomy of the element of knowledge; 2.3 The content of positive obligations under paragraph 1 of the Convention rights
• Sommario/riassunto: The system of the European Convention of Human Rights imposes positive obligations on the state to guarantee human rights in circumstances where state agents dot not directly interfere. In addition to the traditional/liberal negative obligation of non-interference, the state must actively protect the human rights of individuals residing within its jurisdiction. The liability of the state in terms of positive obligations induces a freestanding imperative of human rights that changes fundamentally the perception of the role of the state and the participatory ability of the individual, who can