Derechos Humanos México. Revista del Centro Nacional de Derechos Humanos La Doctrina del Margen de Apreciación como instrumento de la protección de los derechos humanos

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
General table of contents......Page 11
Detailed table of contents......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 19
Table of cases, with information on sources......Page 22
List of tables......Page 29
Human rights as an article of faith......Page 31
The short-sightedness of the universal assertion......Page 32
Practical and conceptual critiques of human rights......Page 34
Liberal and non-liberal critiques of human rights......Page 36
Linking the classical critiques to the Strasbourg human rights case law......Page 38
Not one, but several concepts of human rights......Page 40
The moral stance of human rights nihilism......Page 41
Neither simply for nor against human rights......Page 42
Notes......Page 44
The work of the Council of Europe......Page 49
The rights guaranteed by the Convention......Page 50
General principles of interpretation......Page 51
The original mechanism of enforcement......Page 52
The current mechanism of enforcement: Protocol 11......Page 54
The future mechanism of enforcement: Protocol 14......Page 55
Notes......Page 56
The \'Anarchical Fallacies\' denounced by Bentham the \'realist\'......Page 60
Look to the letter, you find nonsense\'......Page 62
\'The order of chaos\'......Page 63
\'Look beyond the letter, you find nothing\'......Page 64
The relative protection of the European Convention and the margin of appreciation......Page 65
Negating the Convention system? Derogations under Article 15......Page 67
Realism in international relations: Virtuous or vicious raison d’état?......Page 69
The creation of the doctrine of the margin of appreciation in the First Cyprus Case......Page 71
Underlying political games: The Second Cyprus Case......Page 74
Realism and the Convention: Forsythe versus Allott and Imbert......Page 75
The position of the Court in cases involving Article 15......Page 77
Aksoy: Both a realist and a supranational decision......Page 79
No realism without idealism, and vice versa......Page 83
Benhebba: The statism of the French judge versus the idealism of other judges......Page 84
A Court ready to stand up to the state: The remarkable examples of McCann and Selmouni......Page 86
Conclusion......Page 88
Notes......Page 89
4 The Convention in a utilitarian light......Page 98
To affirm or not to affirm rights: Utilitarianism and its liberal detractors......Page 99
The balance of interests in the Convention and the proportionality test applied by the Court......Page 100
The margin of appreciation and the proportionality test: Dudgeon versus James and Others......Page 101
\'Rights as Trumps\': The absolutism of Dworkin......Page 103
Article 3 lays down a negative absolute obligation: Selmouni\'s reiteration......Page 104
Relative or absolute protection under Article 8? The Court\'s majority versus Judge De Meyer in Z v. Finland......Page 105
The recognition of positive obligations by the Court: Utilitarian logic or application of the law of double effect?......Page 108
Pretty: A.mixture of absolutist and consequentialist logics......Page 111
Soering: Going beyond the absolute obligation contained in Article 3......Page 115
\'It all depends\': From Bentham\'s felicific calculus to the proportionality test of the Court......Page 117
The here and now of the casuistic approach of the Court: Van Drooghenbroeck\'s critique......Page 120
Ever-changing context or permanent rules? The practical resolution of the dilemma......Page 121
The moral limitation of the absolutist position: The example of torture......Page 122
A v. United Kingdom: The devastating consequences of an absolute privilege......Page 123
What the general interest does not require: The erosion of civil liberties during the War on Terror......Page 125
Chassagnou: Where is the general interest?......Page 127
Jersild: \'The individual versus the state\' as a fallacious dichotomy......Page 129
Conclusion......Page 132
Notes......Page 133
\'On the Jewish Question\': The denunciation of bourgeois rights......Page 144
Does the Convention serve selfish man? Casado Coca versus Janowski......Page 146
Sunday Times and Janowski: Which interests are being pursued?......Page 149
\'On the Jewish Question\' as a Marxian text......Page 151
The rich more equal than the poor at Strasbourg? Morvai\'s account......Page 152
Gaining procedural efficiency: At the cost of bureaucratic twitching?......Page 155
Dragoi and the thousands and thousands of forgotten cases: The indecency of the Strasbourg procedures......Page 157
The legally-legal issues which retain the attention of the Court......Page 160
The persisting ignorance of racial discrimination by the Court: The false promise of Nachova......Page 163
Human emancipation: Found neither in human rights nor, of course, in the Stalinist gulag......Page 168
Thompson and Lefort: A valuable rule of law even in the face of objectionable legal rules......Page 170
Ipek: Law is not just a sham......Page 172
Notes......Page 174
6 The Convention in a particularist light......Page 185
The AAA Statement of 1947: An outdated view of culture......Page 186
Cultural relativism: An embarrassing doctrine but also a valuable legacy......Page 187
Handyside: The margin of appreciation as – seemingly – an expression of cultural relativism......Page 189
Masquerading as an expression of cultural relativism: The abuse of the cultural argument......Page 192
The real problem with cultural relativism: The tolerance of the intolerable – T v. United Kingdom......Page 193
The good side and inescapability of cultural relativism......Page 195
Delcourt versus Borgers: Inaction versus action, or when is action required?......Page 196
Johnston: An unfortunate cultural relativist application......Page 198
The gloss of universalism in the application of Article 3 of the Convention: Tyrer......Page 200
Rethinking the terms of the opposition: Universalism versus particularism......Page 206
Oscillating between universalism and particularism......Page 208
Conclusion......Page 209
Notes......Page 210
7 The Convention in a feminist light......Page 218
Feminism and feminisms......Page 219
The feminist liberal agenda: Working for sex equality......Page 220
The presence of female judges at Strasbourg......Page 221
Championing the equality of the sexes since ABC......Page 222
What\'s in a name: Burghartz......Page 223
The shortcomings of the \'Add Women and Stir\' liberal approach......Page 224
The woman\'s voice feminist agenda: Calling for women to be recognized as different from men......Page 225
Is a distinctly female voice heard within the Court? An open question......Page 226
Buckley and Chapman: Applicants who are mothers......Page 227
The radical feminist agenda: Getting rid of patriarchy......Page 231
A disappointing record on rape: X and Y, SW, Aydin and Stubbings......Page 232
The right to have an abortion: Neither in the Convention nor in Open Door, Bowman, Tokarczyk or Odiévre......Page 236
Women\'s \'non-feminist\' choices: False consciousness or essentialism?......Page 240
The post-modern feminist critique: Recognizing women as different from one another......Page 241
When the Other is ignored: Karaduman and Dahlab......Page 242
What is not in a name: The simply and shockingly inadmissible Halimi......Page 243
Airey: An amazingly progressive judgment......Page 245
Conclusion......Page 248
Notes......Page 249
8 The human rights creed in four schools......Page 262
Wittgenstein\'s concept of \'family resemblance\'......Page 263
Human rights approached through a family resemblance matrix......Page 264
The soothing or unsettling effect of the universality of human rights: Donnelly versus Haarscher......Page 266
Haarscher\'s human rights vision: Asceticism or evangelism?......Page 267
The foundational case law on transsexualism......Page 268
Van Kück’s \'normalization\' from the perspective of the natural and the protest schools......Page 271
Can we have human rights? The responses of the natural and protest scholars......Page 273
Can human rights law embody human rights? The responses of the natural and protest scholars......Page 274
What is the basis of human rights? The response of the natural scholars......Page 276
What is the basis of human rights? The response of the protest scholars......Page 277
Those who do not believe in, but are committed to, human rights: The deliberative scholars......Page 278
Those who are sceptical of human rights: The discourse scholars......Page 279
Who\'s who: Naming some representatives of each school......Page 283
Moving within the liberal and the non-liberal schools......Page 288
The concept of human rights: Spun by the four schools......Page 290
Notes......Page 291
The appeal of the critique(s) of human rights......Page 302
Challenging the orthodoxy: In Nietzsche\'s footsteps......Page 303
Why be afraid of human rights nihilism?......Page 304
Notes......Page 306
Article 4 (prohibition of slavery)......Page 308
Article 6 (fair trial)......Page 309
Article 9 (freedom of thought, conscience and religion)......Page 310
Article 13 (right to an effective remedy)......Page 311
Article 1 (Protection of property)......Page 312
Appendix 2: Voting pattern of individual judges in cases discussed in Chapter 7......Page 313
Select Bibliography......Page 315
Index......Page 326