Positive Obligations Under the European Convention on Human Rights - Within and Beyond Boundaries

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.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Deconstructing Positive Obligation


• 2: State Knowledge


• 3: Causation


• 4: Reasonableness


• 5: Competing Obligations


• 6: Procedural Positive Obligation to Investigate


• 7: Substantive Positive Obligations


• 8: Extraterritorial Positive Obligations


• Conclusion

About the author

Vladislava Stoyanova is Associate Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden. She is the director of the migration law courses and the course in European fundamental rights law at her faculty. Dr. Stoyanova is the holder of the Wallenberg Academy Fellowship (2019-2024) awarded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. As a Wallenberg Fellow, she leads the project 'The Borders within: the Multifaceted Legal Landscape of Migrant Integration in Europe.' Her research interests include public international law, human rights law, migration law and EU law.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Stoyanova , Vladislava Stoyanova, Vladislava (Associate Professor in Publ Stoyanova, Stoyanova Vladislava
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.09.2023
• EAN: 9780192888044
• ISBN: 978-0-19-288804-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Courts, LAW / International, LAW / Public, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Responsibility of states & other entities, International law: courts and procedures, International courts & procedures