Responsive Human Rights

Vulnerability, Ill-treatment and the ECtHR
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5099-5447-6
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 400 g

Who is a vulnerable person in human rights law?

This important book assesses the treatment of vulnerability by the European Court of Human Rights, an area that has been surprisingly under-explored by European human rights law to date. It explores legal-philosophical understandings of the topic, providing a theoretical framework that can be used when examining the question. Not confining itself to the abstract, however, it provides a bridge from the theoretical to the practical by undertaking a comprehensive examination of the Court's approach under art. 3 ECHR. It also pays particular attention to the concept of human dignity.

Well written and compellingly argued, this is an important new book for all scholars of European human rights.

The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heri, Corina

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Europarecht Europäisches Öffentliches Recht (inkl. EMRK)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter Summary
PART I
LEGAL AND CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS
1. Substantive Scene-Setting - The Prohibition of Torture and Inhuman and Degrading Treatment

Chapter Summary
I. The Evolving Prohibition of Torture

II. The ECtHR's Interpretation of Article 3 ECHR

III. Vulnerability and the Evolutive Interpretation of Article 3 ECHR

IV. Interim Conclusion

2. Theoretical Scene-Setting - Vulnerability Theory

Chapter Summary
I. A Primer on Vulnerability Theory

II. The Work of Martha Albertson Fineman

III. Theorising Human Rights through a Vulnerability Lens

PART II
MAPPING THE COURT'S APPROACH TO VULNERABILITY
3. A Typology of the Court's Approach to Vulnerability under Article 3 ECHR

Chapter Summary
I. Overview: A Typology and Distribution of References

II. Dependency-based Vulnerability

III. Vulnerability Due to State Control

IV. Vulnerability Due to Victimisation

V. Vulnerability in the Context of Migration

VI. Vulnerability Due to Discrimination and Marginalisation

VII. Vulnerability, Pregnancy and Precarious Reproductive Health

VIII. Vulnerability Due to the Espousal of Unpopular Views

IX. Intersecting Vulnerabilities
X. Underexplored Sources of Vulnerability

4. The Growth and Impact of Vulnerability Reasoning

Chapter Summary
I. A Quantitative Analysis of Vulnerability under Article 3

II. The Effects of Vulnerability under Article 3 ECHR

5. Evaluation of the Court's Approach in Practice

Chapter Summary
I. Vulnerability as a Vehicle of Exclusion and Inclusion

II. Reticence, Selectivity and the 'Floodgates' Problem

PART III
CONTEXTUALISING AND CRITIQUING THE COURT'S APPROACH
6. Situating Vulnerability Reasoning in a Broader Context

Chapter Summary
I. Vulnerability and Other Human Rights Bodies
II. Vulnerability and the Context of Minority Rights

III. Vulnerability in the Court's Non-Discrimination Jurisprudence

7. Vulnerability Deciphered - Human Dignity, Substantive Equality and Judicial Empathy

Chapter Summary
I. On Human Dignity and Vulnerability

II. On Vulnerability, Justice and Equality

III. On the Court's 'Legitimacy' and Judicial Empathy

IV. Interim Conclusion: Synthesising a Coherent Theory of Vulnerability

8. Conclusion - A Framework for Using Vulnerability under Article 3 ECHR

Chapter Summary
I. Between Theory and Practice: Concerns about the Court's Approach

II. Bringing Coherence to the Court's Vulnerability Heuristic

III. Revolutionising the Revolution: Vulnerability Theory and its Guidance for the Court

IV. Final Thoughts
A Note on Methodology

Über Autor(innen)

Heri, Corina
Corina Heri is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Corina Heri is a post-doctoral researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for International Law at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.