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dc.contributor.authorSchwarzen, Jürgen
dc.contributor.authorHatje, Armin
dc.contributor.editorSchwarzen, Jürgen
dc.contributor.editorHatje, Armin
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-08T16:25:31Z
dc.date.available2024-07-08T16:25:31Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifierONIX_20240708_9783748933229_256
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/91919
dc.description.abstractLegal decision-making is not a ‘one way street’. Any legal analysis is based on a factual context. Before any legal analysis can commence, the facts of a given case have to be detangled and a decision is reached as to which facts are deemed relevant for the legal analysis that is to follow. The legal norms that are considered applicable to the factual circumstances will, in turn, bring into focus those facts that best fit under the legal norm. There is, thus, a back-and-forth between the factual and the normative; the factual gaze is influenced by the legal gaze and vice versa. It is the factual-side of this back-and-forth, that is of interest in this thesis. The contribution of this PhD thesis is that it suggests using principles of scientific method as fact-assessment criteria. These scientific principles are employed as a methodology to assess and criticise nine judgments by the ECtHR. In a nutshell, it is shown that reading and analysing the ECtHR’s case-law using the principles of scientific method, allows the detection of flaws in the factual analyses. A strong factual analysis, freed of logical flaws and inconsistencies, that is based on principles of scientific method, will provide a strong basis on which the legal analysis can then follow. Any in­ consistencies in the factual analyses will impact the legal assessment. This thesis aims at stressing the importance to pay more attention to the factual analysis in legal decision-making, and it outlines how a more appropriate factual analysis can be achieved.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::L Law::LB International law::LBB Public international law::LBBR Public international law: human rights
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1Q Other geographical groupings: Oceans and seas, historical, political etc::1QF Political, socio-economic, cultural and strategic groupings::1QFE EU (European Union)
dc.subject.otherHuman Rights
dc.subject.otherFacts
dc.subject.otherFact-Finding
dc.subject.otherTruth
dc.subject.otherLegal Decision-Making
dc.subject.otherEuropean Court of Human Rights
dc.subject.otherInterdisciplinarity
dc.titleFacts Before the European Court of Human Rights
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5771/9783748933229
oapen.relation.isPublishedBya828cf6c-76dd-4fdb-b400-ec5fba9459b8
oapen.relation.isFundedBy07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26
oapen.relation.isbn9783748933229
oapen.collectionSwiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
oapen.place.publicationBaden-Baden
oapen.grant.number10BP12_212002
oapen.grant.programOpen Access Books
oapen.grant.projectFacts Before the European Court of Human Rights


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