About the Seminar
The Right not to be Dominated
Case law of the European Court of Human Rights on Migrants’ Living Conditions
In an increasing number of cases, the European Court of Human Rights deals with migrants’ complaints under Article 3 of the Convention (prohibition of torture and inhumane treatment) about their poor living conditions in their country of residence. This case law has been criticized for not being consistent and/or for not providing migrants enough protection. In this seminar, Lieneke Slingenberg will analyse this case law from a new perspective: the concept of freedom as non-domination, as developed in republican theory. She will argue that, seen through this lens, many tendencies in the Court’s case law can be explained and constructed as consistent, and the Court does provide migrants important protection against unfreedom. Nevertheless, she will also argue that the case law is capable of improvement in a number of ways, in order to provide more effective and elaborate protection against domination.
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