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Vladislava Stoyanova

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Correlativity between Human Rights and Positive Obligations and its Role for the Execution of Judgments delivered by the European Court of Human Rights

Author

  • Vladislava Stoyanova

Summary, in English

States have discretion what concrete measures to undertake to fulfil their primary positive obligations under the ECHR. If a violation of these obligations is found, states also have discretion how to execute the judgment to comply with their secondary obligations. Yet, when the Court reasons to reach a conclusion whether there has been a violation, it necessarily specifies possible concrete measures that could have been undertaken at the relevant time in the past so that the state could have complied with its positive obligations. The question at the heart of this article is whether this specification of the measures in the reasoning assists in the identification of future measures for the purposes of the execution of the judgment and the guidance of the future state conduct. The Hohfeld’s correlativity model and the interest-based theory of rights are employed to address this question. It is explained how the specified measures indicated in the reasoning of the judgment do not correlate back to rights as demanded by the Hohfeld’s model. As a consequence, any measures that might be commanded by the ECHR obligations remain vague, which does not assist states in their efforts to execute judgments.

Department/s

  • Department of Law
  • Human Rights Law
  • Migration Law
  • Public International Law
  • LU Profile Area: Human rights

Publishing year

2024

Language

English

Publication/Series

European Convention on Human Rights Law Review

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Brill

Topic

  • Law

Keywords

  • Positive obligations
  • Execution of judgments
  • European Convention on Human Rights
  • Correlativity
  • Hohfeld
  • Primary and secondary obligations
  • Interest-based theory of rights
  • Mänskliga rättighter

Status

Inpress

Project

  • The Borders Within: the Multifaceted Legal Landscape of Migrant Integration in Europe

Research group

  • Human Rights Law
  • Migration Law
  • Public International Law

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2666-3228