1st Edition

Border Deaths at Sea under the Right to Life in the European Convention on Human Rights

By Lisa-Marie Komp Copyright 2023
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

This book focuses on border deaths at sea. It unravels how the interplay of the law of the sea and rules on jurisdiction widen the opportunity for states to make and enforce rules outside their territory, and questions whether this is also accompanied with an obligation to respect the right to life under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) when doing so. By embarking upon the... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Do European Immigration Policies Cause Border Deaths?

3. The Legal Landscape of Border Deaths at Sea

4. Application of the ECHR to the Extraterritorial Effects of Immigration Policies

5. The Right to Life and Extraterritorial Effects of Immigration Policies

6. Conclusion

Biography

Lisa-Marie Komp is Lecturer at the VU Amsterdam and Attorney at Law (international law and human rights) at Prakken d'Oliveira Human Rights Lawyers, The Netherlands.