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Porträtt på Vladislava Stoyanova. Photo.

Vladislava Stoyanova

Universitetslektor

Porträtt på Vladislava Stoyanova. Photo.

Framing Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights Law: Mediating between the Abstract and the Concrete

Författare

  • Vladislava Stoyanova

Summary, in English

This article examines positive obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights from the perspective of the level of concreteness chosen for their framing. This level is essential for understanding whether and how the analytical distinction between the existence of an obligation and the breach of this obligation can be applied. The level of concreteness is an important conceptual framework for examining positive obligations because it has an impact even on the possibility of making an assessment as to whether the State has breached the obligation, and on how this assessment is performed in the reasoning. The Grand Chamber judgment in Kurt v Austria is used to illustrate how positive obligations can be framed both in more abstract and more concrete terms, and how the reasoning mediates between the abstract and the concrete. The more it tilts towards a concrete formulation of the obligation, the more the Court appears to assume the role of a rule-maker, which is in tension with the principle that States have discretion as to what concrete measures to take to fulfill their positive obligations.

Avdelning/ar

  • Juridiska institutionen
  • Mänskliga rättigheter
  • Migrationsrätt
  • Folkrätt
  • LU profilområde: Mänskliga rättigheter

Publiceringsår

2023

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Human Rights Law Review

Volym

23

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Oxford University Press

Ämne

  • Law

Nyckelord

  • European Convention on Human Rights, positive obligations, Kurt v Austria, omissions, risk assessment, Osman test
  • Human rights
  • Mänskliga rättigheter

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Human Rights Law
  • Migration Law
  • Public International Law

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1461-7781