Judicial Activism in the Approach of the European Court of Human Rights to Positive Obligations of the State
Journal: Baltic Yearbook of International Law Online
Year: 2011

In 2006 a certain form of liberal international law reached its apotheosis with the publication of The Princeton Project's Forging a World of Liberty Under Law. 1 This set of desiderata, given the imprimatur of the U.S. foreign policy elite and working in the spirit of George Kennan, represented a distillation of the themes present in a form of muscular liberalism that seemed ascendant then but is, perhaps, less obviously visible or self-confident now. Indeed, the European Society of Internation