Protecting Property in European Human Rights Law
This book examines the development of the protection of property in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The First Additional Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms introduced the protection of property into the Convention system. The ECHR's case law developed an autonomous concept of property and set out the modes and conditions of State interference with property. Various legal developments can be discerned in the...
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This book examines the development of the protection of property in the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The First Additional Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms introduced the protection of property into the Convention system. The ECHR's case law developed an autonomous concept of property and set out the modes and conditions of State interference with property. Various legal developments can be discerned in the protection of property, such as the emergence of restitution cases and pilot judgments. The author shows that the system of protection has evolved from a system where the State merely refrains from interfering with property, to one in which the State has the obligation to protect properly. Although the ECHR has been guided by the concept of social justice in recent judgments, the author concludes that it is doubtful whether social rights, such as the right to housing, will be included among the values enjoying protection as property.
Preface Vojin Dimitrijevic Dimitrijevic, VojinPt. 1 Convention Mechanism of Protecting Property 1Ch. 1 Emergence of The Mechanism 3Ch. 2 Basic Features of the Mechanism 13Ch. 3 State Interference with Property 29Pt. 2 Developments 65Ch. 4 Restitution Cases 67Ch. 5 Pilot Judgments 91Ch. 6 Bank Deposits 113Pt. 3 Prospects 123Ch. 7 Advancing the Mechanism 125Ch. 8 Dilemmas and Challenges 135Ch. 9 Conclusions 145List of Cases 149Bibliography 155
