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The ECHR and human rights theory : reconciling the ethical and the political conceptions /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zysset, Alain
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
Series:Routledge research in human rights law.
Subjects:
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms > (1950 November 5)
European Court of Human Rights.
Human rights > European Union countries > Philosophy.
Human rights > Moral and ethical aspects > European Union countries.
Human rights > Political aspects > European Union countries.
Democracy > European Union countries > Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • human rights theory and the challenge of the ECHR
  • Ethical theories of human rights and their practice-independence
  • Political theories and their practice-dependence
  • Theorizing human rights
  • a constructivist proposal
  • The ECHR in historical perspective
  • The normativity of ECHR law
  • Interpretation at the ECtHR
  • setting the stage
  • Balancing and justification at the ECtHR
  • the pivotal concept of "democratic necessity"
  • Conclusion
  • constructing the democratic foundations.