Responsive Human Rights

Who is a vulnerable person in human rights law?<br/><br/>This important book assesses the treatment of vulnerability by the European Court of Human Rights an area that has been surprisingly under-explored by European human rights law to date. It explores legal-philosophical understandings of the topic providing a theoretical framework that can be used when examining the question. Not confining itself to the abstract however it provides a bridge from the theoretical to the practical by undertaking a comprehensive examination of the Court's approach under art. 3 ECHR. It also pays particular attention to the concept of human dignity.<br/><br/>Well written and compellingly argued this is an important new book for all scholars of European human rights.<br/><br/><i>The open access edition of this book is available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.</i>