Core Socio-Economic Rights and the European Court of Human Rights deals with socio-economic rights in the context of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The book connects the ECtHR's socio-economic case law to an understanding of the Court's responsibility to recognize the limitations of supranational rights adjudication while protecting the most needy. By exploring the idea of core rights protection in constitutional and international law, a new perspective is developed that offers suggestions for improving the ECtHR's reasoning in socio-economic cases as well as contributing to the debate on indivisible rights adjudication in an age of 'rights inflation' and proportionality review. Core Socio-Economic Rights and the European Court of Human Rights will interest scholars and practitioners dealing with fundamental rights and especially those interested in judicial reasoning, socio-economic and supranational rights protection.

This book focuses on socio-economic rights in the context of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights.

About the Author
Ingrid Leijten is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law at Leiden Law School, Universiteit Leiden, the Netherlands.


Book Information
ISBN 9781316648216
Author Ingrid Leijten
Format Paperback
Page Count 353
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 600g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 153mm * 20mm