1. Introduction: From Death to Democracy
2. Narrative and Human Rights Law
3. Lethal Force, the Right to Life and Democratic Society: Key
Connections
4. Substantive Dimensions of the Right to Life and Democratic
Society
5. Procedural Dimensions of the Right to Life and Democratic
Society
6. Purposes and Values in Right to Life Case Law on Lethal
Force
7. Narratives of Death and Democracy
8. Conclusion
Looking through the critical lens of narrative theory, this book examines the right to life in Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights and related case law on lethal (and potentially lethal) force.
Stephen Skinner is Associate Professor of Comparative Legal History and Human Rights at the University of Exeter.
Skinner’s book is challenging but rewarding. It is both
theoretically and doctrinally complex, and deploys sophisticated
techniques from legal theory, socio-political theory and
interpretative analysis core to which is a reading of Cover and
Paul Ricoeur. But at its centre is an important premise: the
connection between the right to life under article 2 and democratic
society in the context of the use of force by the state in the name
of the rule of law – and how that connectedness goes to the very
identity of a democratic society.
*Law Society Gazette*
Stephen Skinner’s book has contributed significantly to our
understanding of the vital democratic standards that underpin the
right to life, as well as to our understanding of democracy itself
… This book is a difficult and challenging read for lawyers as well
as social and political theorists. It takes them out of their
comfort zone – as it is meant to – but the effort is highly
rewarding since it speaks to each discipline about one of the most
important features of life in a democracy and one that is subject
to endless debate.
*European Convention on Human Rights Law Review*
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