Personal freedom through human rights law
Subtitle: autonomy, identity, and integrity under the European Convention on Human Rights
By: by Jill Marshall.
Series: International studies in human rights -- v. 98
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9789004170599
Subjects: Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms -- (1950); Human rights; Liberty; Autonomy; Identity (Philosophical concept); Integrity; Persons (Law); Privacy, Right of; Freedom of information; Freedom of religion
Description: "Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights provides a right to respect for one's private life. The European Court of Human Rights has interpreted this provision broadly to include a right to personal autonomy, identity and integrity. The book examines these concepts by interconnecting case law from the Court with the philosophical debates, including those in feminism, in four parts: (1) personal freedom and human rights law (2) privacy and personal autonomy (3) personal identity (4) bodily and moral integrity. The author notes, through her analysis of the Court's case law, that different versions of freedom are evident in the jurisprudence, including one which may restrict human freedom rather than enhance it through human rights law.

This book will be invaluable to scholars of the Court, human rights and issues of the self."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Personal freedom and human rights law; title: The European Convention on Human Rights and personhood; title: From privacy to personal autonomy; title: The ECtHR's development of respect for private life into a real right to personal autonomy; title: Personal identity definitions; title: Sexual identity; title: Identity and access to information important to one's identity; title: Religious identity; title: Bodily and moral integrity rights.