The ECHR and Human Rights Theory by Alain Zysset - 9781138641037

Taylor & Francis

The ECHR and Human Rights TheoryReconciling the Moral and the Political Conceptions\nAuthor(s): Alain Zysset\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138641037, 978-1138641037\nSynopsis\nThe European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) has been relatively neglected in the field of normative human rights theory. This book aims to bridge the gap between human rights theory and the practice of the ECHR. In order to do so, it tests the two overarching approaches in human rights theory literature: the ethical and the political, against the practice of the ECHR ??system??. The book also addresses the history of the ECHR and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) as an international legal and political institution.\n\nThe book offers a democratic defence of the authority of the ECtHR. It illustrates how a conception of democracy ?? more specifically, the egalitarian argument for democracy developed by Thomas Christiano on the.