Procreative Rights in International Law - Insights From the European Court of Human Rights

"This volume offers international, human rights, family and medical lawyers a comprehensive analysis of topical issues in human reproduction, from donor insemination to posthumous conception, integrating the systematic examination of international case-law on procreative autonomy and family life with underlying ethical debates"--

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Parenthood aspirations and justiciable rights; 2. A right to a genetically related child?; 3. A right to the recognition of intentional parenthood?; 4. A right to a healthy child? From medical therapy to eugenic selection; 5. The quest for reproductive equality: the challenges of sexual orientation, gender and civil status; Conclusions; References; Index.

About the author

Carmen Draghici is Professor of Law at City, University of London, a Senior Fellow of the UK's Higher Education Academy, an Honorary Member and former Academic Fellow of the Inner Temple, and a member of the Network of UNESCO Chairs in Communication (Orbicom). She specialises in international human rights law and family and child law in England and Wales. Her published work includes the monograph The Legitimacy of Family Rights in Strasbourg Case Law: 'Living Instrument' or Extinguished Sovereignty? (2017).

Summary

This volume offers international, human rights, family and medical lawyers a comprehensive analysis of topical issues in human reproduction, from donor insemination to posthumous conception, integrating the systematic examination of international case-law on procreative autonomy and family life with underlying ethical debates.

Product details

• Authors: Carmen Draghici, Carmen (City University London) Draghici, Draghici Carmen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2024
• EAN: 9781009443951
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0944395-1
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Medical Law & Legislation, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, LAW / Health, Personal & public health, Public International Law, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Medical & healthcare law, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Medical and healthcare law, Public International law: health