Core Socio-Economic Rights and the European Court of Human Rights

This book focuses on socio-economic rights in the context of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Setting the Stage: 1. The ECHR and socio-economic rights protection; 2. Making sense of ECtHR's socio-economic protection; 3. The stages of fundamental rights adjudication; Part II. Core Rights Protection: 4. Core rights as limits to limitations; 5. Minimum cores and the scope of fundamental rights; 6. Core socio-economic content; Part III. Core Socio-Economic Rights and the ECtHR: 7. A core rights perspective for the ECtHR; 8. Core socio-economic rights in the case law of the ECtHR; Conclusion.

About the author

Ingrid Leijten is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden Law School, Universiteit Leiden, the Netherlands.

Summary

Core Socio-Economic Rights and the European Court of Human Rights focuses on socio-economic rights in the context of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and, through review and exploration of core socio-economic protection and rights, offers suggestions for improving the ECtHR's reasoning in socio-economic cases.

Product details

• Authors: Ingrid Leijten, Ingrid (Universiteit Leiden) Leijten, LEIJTEN INGRID
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781107198470
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19847-0
• No. of pages: 350
• Series: Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy; Cambridge Studies in European; Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Human rights, civil rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties