Shaping rights in the ECHR: the role of the European Court of Human Rights in determining the scope of human rights

"In fundamental rights adjudication, a court first has to determine whether the interest at stake falls within the scope of the fundamental right invoked. Whether or not an individual interest falls within the scope or ambit of one of the fundamental rights protected by the European Convention on Human Rights determines whether or not the European Court of Human Rights can decide on the merits of a case. This volume brings together a variety of legal scholars in order to examine the scope of fundamental rights. Topics range from the nature of human rights and the real or imagined risk of rights inflation to theories of positive obligations and social and economic rights. It contains contributions of a theoretical nature as well as analytical overviews of the ECtHR's approach. In addition, comparisons are made with domestic, EU and international law"--

"In fundamental rights adjudication, a court first has to determine whether the interest at stake falls within the scope of the fundamental right invoked. Whether or not an individual interest falls within the scope or ambit of one of the fundamental rights protected by the European Convention on Human Rights determines whether or not the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) can decide on the merits of a case. This volume brings a variety of legal scholars together to examine the scope of fundamental rights. Topics range from the nature of human rights and the real or imagined risk of rights inflation to theories of positive obligations and social and economic rights. It contains contributions of a theoretical nature as well as analytical overviews of the ECtHR's approach. In addition, comparisons are made with domestic, EU and international law"--

Introduction / Janneke Gerards and Eva Brems -- Part I. Conceptual, Structural and Constitutional Issues Relating to the Scope of Rights -- 2. Between the will of the contracting parties and the needs of today : extending the scope of Convention rights and freedoms beyond what could have been foreseen by the drafters of the ECHR / Alastair Mowbray -- The scope and balancing of rights : diagnostic or constitutive? / George Letsas -- Interpreting the protection guaranteed by two-stage rights in the European Convention on Human Rights : the case for wide interpretation / Gerhard van der Schyff -- The scope of ECHR rights and institutional concerns : the relationship between proliferation of rights and the caseload of the ECtHR / Janneke Gerards -- Part 2. Scope and More : Developments in the Case-Law of the ECtHR -- Defining the scope of economic and social guarantees in the case-law of the ECtHR / Ingrid Leijten -- Procedural protection : an examination of procedural safeguards read into substantive Convention rights / Eva Brems -- The scope of rights and the scope of obligations : positive obligations / Laurens Lavrysen -- Contested contours : the limits of freedom of expression fr…