Overview

Traditionally, human rights have protected those facing the sharp edge of the criminal justice system. But over time human rights law has become increasingly infused with duties to mobilise criminal law towards protection and redress for violation of rights. These developments give rise to a whole host of questions concerning the precise parameters of coercive human rights, the rationale(s) that underpin them, and their effects and implications for victims, perpetrators, domestic legal systems, and for the theory and practice of human rights and criminal justice. This collection addresses these questions with a focus on the rich jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The collection explores four interlocking themes surrounding the issue of coercive human rights: First, the key threads in the doctrine of the ECtHR on duties to mobilise the criminal law as a means of delivering human rights protection. Secondly, the factors that contribute to a readiness to demand coercive measures, including discrimination and vulnerability, and other key justificatory reasoning shaping the development of coercive human rights. Thirdly, the most pressing challenges for the ECtHR’s coercive duties doctrine, including: - how it relates to theories and rationales of criminalisation and criminal punishment; - its implications for the fundamental tenets of human rights law itself; - its relationship to transitional justice objectives; and - how (far) it coheres with the imperative of effective protection for persons in precarious or vulnerable situations. Fourthly, the (prospective) evolution of the coercive human rights doctrine and its application within national jurisdictions.

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Author:   Laurens Lavrysen (Human Rights Centre, Ghent University, Belgium) ,  Dr Natasa Mavronicola (University of Birmingham, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Hart Publishing
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9781509937875

ISBN 10:   1509937870
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   12 November 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Coercive Human Rights: Introducing the Sharp Edge of the European Convention on Human Rights Natasa Mavronicola and Laurens Lavrysen PART I KEY THREADS IN ECtHR DOCTRINE 2. Positive Obligations and the Criminal Law: A Bird’s-Eye View on the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights Laurens Lavrysen 3. Positive Obligations and Coercion: Deterrence as a Key Factor in the European Court of Human Rights’ Case Law Paul Lemmens and Marie Courtoy PART II PERSPECTIVES ON VICTIMS’ PROTECTION AND REDRESS 4. Retribution through Reparations? Evaluating the European Court of Human Rights’ Jurisprudence on Gross Human Rights Violations from a Victim’s Perspective Alina Balta 5. Shaping Coercive Obligations through Vulnerability: The Example of the ECtHR Corina Heri 6. Criminal Law Responses to Hate Speech: Towards a Systematic Approach in Strasbourg? Stephanos Stavros PART III CRITICAL REFLECTIONS: THEORY, IMPACT, LIMITATIONS 7. Positive Obligations in View of the Principle of Criminal Law as a Last Resort Nina Peršak 8. Sowing a ‘Culture of Conviction’: What Shall Domestic Criminal Justice Systems Reap from Coercive Human Rights? Mattia Pinto 9. Coercive Overreach, Dilution and Diversion: Potential Dangers of Aligning Human Rights Protection with Criminal Law (Enforcement) Natasa Mavronicola 10. Separating Protection from the Exigencies of the Criminal Law: Achievements and Challenges under Article 4 ECHR Vladislava Stoyanova 11. The Limitations of a Criminal Law Approach in a Transitional Justice Context Brice Dickson PART IV UNCHARTED WATERS FOR THE ECtHR’S COERCIVE DUTIES DOCTRINE 12. Preventive Obligations, Risk and Coercive Overreach Liora Lazarus 13. Coercive Human Rights and Unlawfully Obtained Evidence in Domestic Criminal Proceedings Kelly M Pitcher Postscript: Coercive Human Rights in Times of Coronavirus Natasa Mavronicola and Laurens Lavrysen

Reviews

This volume is an excellent example of a critical examination of the jurisprudence of the ECHR. It not only provides clarity about their guidelines, justification and implications in an area that is gaining in importance, but also provides impetus for further development as well as references to possible limits and risks of the concept of criminal law protection obligations. -- Philip Czech * Newsletter Menschenrechte (Bloomsbury translation) * This volume demonstrates, in a holistic way, how coercive human rights duties have inevitably generated tensions with some of the more 'orthodox' concerns of human rights law ... It also offers a solid basis from which to reappraise concrete developments related to the criminal law (enforcement) tools that are capable of affording effective redress for human rights violations and determine individual criminal liability. * Europe des Droits & Libertes *

This volume is an excellent example of a critical examination of the jurisprudence of the ECHR. It not only provides clarity about their guidelines, justification and implications in an area that is gaining in importance, but also provides impetus for further development as well as references to possible limits and risks of the concept of criminal law protection obligations. -- Philip Czech * Newsletter Menschenrechte (Bloomsbury translation) *

Author Information

Laurens Lavrysen is a Postdoctoral Researcher (funded by the FWO – Research Foundation Flanders), connected to the Human Rights Centre of Ghent University. Natasa Mavronicola is Reader in Law at Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham.

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