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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814649703321

Titolo

Human rights between law and politics : the margin of appreciation in post-national contexts / / Edited by Petr Agha

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Portland, Oregon : , : Hart Publishing, , 2017

ISBN

1-78225-799-3

1-5099-0281-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 pages)

Collana

Modern studies in European law ; ; v. 76

Disciplina

323.01

Soggetti

Human rights - Europe

Human rights

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Petr Agha -- 1. Universalism and Relativism in the Protection of Human Rights in Europe: Politics, Law and Culture -- Steven Greer -- 2. On the Varieties of Universalism in Human Rights Discourse -- Ben Golder -- 3. When Human Rights Clash in 'the Age of Subsidiarity': What Role for the Margin of Appreciation? -- Stijn Smet -- 4. The Margin of Appreciation as an Underenforcement Doctrine -- Dimitrios Tsarapatsanis -- 5. Anything to Appreciate?: A Sociological View of the Margin of Rights and the Persuasive Force of Their Doctrines -- Jirí Pribán -- 6. The Prisoner's Dilemma: The Margin of Appreciation as Proportionality or Recognition? -- Marco Goldoni and Pablo Marshall -- 7. Social Sensitivity, Consensus and the Margin of Appreciation -- Nicholas Bamforth -- 8. Religious Rights and the Margin of Appreciation -- Dominic McGoldrick -- 9. The Paradox of Human Rights and the Role of the European Court of Human Rights in Keeping it Alive -- Petr Agha

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyses human rights in post-national contexts and demonstrates, through the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, that the Margin of Appreciation doctrine is an essential part of human rights adjudication. Current approaches have tended to stress the instrumental value of the Margin of Appreciation, or to give it a complementary role within the principle of proportionality, while others have been wholly critical of it. In contradiction to these approaches this



volume shows that the doctrine is a genuinely normative principle capable of balancing conflicting values. It explores to what extent the tension between human rights and politics, embodied in the doctrine, might be understood as a mutually reinforcing interplay of variables rather than an entrenched separation. By linking the interpretation of the Margin of Appreciation doctrine to a broader conception of human rights, understood as complex political and moral norms, this volume argues that the doctrine can assist in the formulation of the common good in light of the requirements of the Convention