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1 online resource (319 pages) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- Introduction -- 1 Deconstructing Positive Obligations -- Introduction -- 1.1 The State as an Institutional Mediator -- 1.2 Justifications for Positive Obligations -- 1.3 Plurality of Obligations Owed by the State -- 1.4 Priority of Rights as Organizational Principles -- 1.5 Trigger, Scope, Content, and Types of Positive Obligations -- Conclusion -- 2 State Knowledge -- Introduction -- 2.1 The Role of Fault in State Responsibility -- 2.2 Triggering and Breach of Positive Obligations under ECHR |
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2.3 Actual Knowledge versus Putative Knowledge -- 2.3.1 Different Possible Ways of Assessing Putative Knowledge -- 2.3.2 State Knowledge Necessarily Implies Normative Assessment -- 2.4 Assessment of Knowledge -- 2.5 No Benefit of Hindsight -- 2.6 Burden of Proof -- 2.7 The Nature and the Level of Risk -- 2.7.1 The 'Real and Immediate Risk' Standard -- 2.7.2 Man-made versus Natural Harms -- 2.8 Contributory Fault of the Victim -- Conclusion -- 3 Causation -- Introduction -- 3.1 The Role and the Standard of Causation -- 3.2 Control and Causation -- 3.2.1 The Rules on Attribution |
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3.2.2 The Role of Control and the Extension of the Logic of the Rules on Attribution -- 3.2.3 Control and Prevention of State-inflicted Harm -- 3.2.4 Assumption of Control in the Area of Public Services -- 3.2.5 Source of the Harm and the Related Level of Control -- 3.2.6 Assumption of Control over the Victim -- 3.3 Techniques for Avoiding Causation -- 3.3.1 Domestic Legality -- 3.3.2 Procedural Protection -- 3.4 Technique for Limiting Responsibility when Causation is Present -- Conclusion -- 4 Reasonableness -- Introduction -- 4.1 Intertwinement with Knowledge and Causation |
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4.1.1 Weak Causation Counterbalanced by the Reasonableness Standard -- 4.1.2 Strong Causation Counterbalanced by the Reasonableness Standard -- 4.1.3 Reasonableness and Immediacy of the Risk -- 4.1.4 The Importance and the Justifiability of the Analytical Distinctions -- 4.2 Consideration of Alternative Protective Measures -- 4.2.1 Levels of Abstraction/Concreteness and the Burden of Proof -- 4.2.2 Place and Formulation of the Alternative -- 4.2.3 The Standard of Protectiveness -- 4.3 Margin of Appreciation -- 4.3.1 Delineation between Structural Deference and Appreciation of Alternatives |
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4.3.2 Scrutiny in the Appreciation of Alternatives -- Conclusion -- 5 Competing Obligations -- Introduction -- 5.1 Specification for Tensions to Become Cognizable -- 5.2 The Distinction between General Interests and Interests that Form the Basis of Human Rights -- 5.3 Addressing the Competition -- 5.3.1 Equal Moral Status -- 5.3.2 The Relative Importance of the Interests and the Obligations Triggered -- 5.3.3 Action versus Omission -- 5.3.4 Determinacy of the Harm and the Affected Individuals -- 5.4 Accommodation of Obligations -- Conclusion -- 6 Procedural Positive Obligation to Investigate |
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Introduction |
Summary |
Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights provides novel insight into the elements underlying a state's responsibility to fulfil positive obligations. It is essential reading for academics, legal practitioners, and policymakers working across the diverse fields in which positive human rights obligations may apply. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Local Note |
Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Open Access Books |
Subject |
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950 November 5)
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European Court of Human Rights.
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Human rights -- Europe.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Stoyanova, Vladislava Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2023 9780192888044 |
ISBN |
9780192888167 |
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0192888161 |
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0192888048 |
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9780192888044 |
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0192888153 |
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9780192888150 |
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