Fair Balance: Proportionality, Subsidiarity and Primarity in the European Convention on Human Rights

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17028-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 99, 670 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1247 g

Reihe: International Studies in Human Rights

In one of the most important publications on the European Convention and Court of Human Rights in recent years, a wide range of fundamental practical and theoretical problems of crucial importance are addressed in an original and critical way bringing a fresh, coherent and innovative order into well-known battle zones.

The analysis revolves around the Court’s fair balance-test and comprises in-depth analyses of e.g. methods of interpretation, proportionality, the least onerous means-test, the notion of absolute rights, subsidiarity, formal and substantive principles, evidentiary standards, proceduralisation of substantive rights etc. The author coins the term of “primarity” in order to clarify the obligation of the Contracting Parties to implement the Convention in domestic law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Christoffersen, Jonas

Fachgebiete

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents; Table of figures; Foreword; Preface;
Chapter 1 Introduction;
Chapter 2 The principle of proportionality;
Chapter 3 The principle of subsidiarity;
Chapter 4 The principle of primarity (formal aspect);
Chapter 5 The principle of primarity (substantive aspect);
Bibliography; Index of cases; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Christoffersen, Jonas
Jonas Christoffersen, Dr. jur., Executive Director of the Danish Institute of Human Rights. He has published extensively on human rights law and has profes­sional experience as attorney, law clerk at the Danish Supreme Court, judge at the Danish High Court, and Ass. Professor of International Human Rights Law at Co­penhagen University.