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Author Stoyanova, Vladislava

Title Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights : Within and Beyond Boundaries
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (319 pages)
Contents Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- Introduction -- 1 Deconstructing Positive Obligations -- Introduction -- 1.1 The State as an Institutional Mediator -- 1.2 Justifications for Positive Obligations -- 1.3 Plurality of Obligations Owed by the State -- 1.4 Priority of Rights as Organizational Principles -- 1.5 Trigger, Scope, Content, and Types of Positive Obligations -- Conclusion -- 2 State Knowledge -- Introduction -- 2.1 The Role of Fault in State Responsibility -- 2.2 Triggering and Breach of Positive Obligations under ECHR
2.3 Actual Knowledge versus Putative Knowledge -- 2.3.1 Different Possible Ways of Assessing Putative Knowledge -- 2.3.2 State Knowledge Necessarily Implies Normative Assessment -- 2.4 Assessment of Knowledge -- 2.5 No Benefit of Hindsight -- 2.6 Burden of Proof -- 2.7 The Nature and the Level of Risk -- 2.7.1 The 'Real and Immediate Risk' Standard -- 2.7.2 Man-made versus Natural Harms -- 2.8 Contributory Fault of the Victim -- Conclusion -- 3 Causation -- Introduction -- 3.1 The Role and the Standard of Causation -- 3.2 Control and Causation -- 3.2.1 The Rules on Attribution
3.2.2 The Role of Control and the Extension of the Logic of the Rules on Attribution -- 3.2.3 Control and Prevention of State-inflicted Harm -- 3.2.4 Assumption of Control in the Area of Public Services -- 3.2.5 Source of the Harm and the Related Level of Control -- 3.2.6 Assumption of Control over the Victim -- 3.3 Techniques for Avoiding Causation -- 3.3.1 Domestic Legality -- 3.3.2 Procedural Protection -- 3.4 Technique for Limiting Responsibility when Causation is Present -- Conclusion -- 4 Reasonableness -- Introduction -- 4.1 Intertwinement with Knowledge and Causation
4.1.1 Weak Causation Counterbalanced by the Reasonableness Standard -- 4.1.2 Strong Causation Counterbalanced by the Reasonableness Standard -- 4.1.3 Reasonableness and Immediacy of the Risk -- 4.1.4 The Importance and the Justifiability of the Analytical Distinctions -- 4.2 Consideration of Alternative Protective Measures -- 4.2.1 Levels of Abstraction/Concreteness and the Burden of Proof -- 4.2.2 Place and Formulation of the Alternative -- 4.2.3 The Standard of Protectiveness -- 4.3 Margin of Appreciation -- 4.3.1 Delineation between Structural Deference and Appreciation of Alternatives
4.3.2 Scrutiny in the Appreciation of Alternatives -- Conclusion -- 5 Competing Obligations -- Introduction -- 5.1 Specification for Tensions to Become Cognizable -- 5.2 The Distinction between General Interests and Interests that Form the Basis of Human Rights -- 5.3 Addressing the Competition -- 5.3.1 Equal Moral Status -- 5.3.2 The Relative Importance of the Interests and the Obligations Triggered -- 5.3.3 Action versus Omission -- 5.3.4 Determinacy of the Harm and the Affected Individuals -- 5.4 Accommodation of Obligations -- Conclusion -- 6 Procedural Positive Obligation to Investigate
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
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject European Court of Human Rights.
SUBJECT Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950 November 5) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79043274
Subject Human rights -- Europe
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