The juridification of vulnerability in the European legal culture
Although not being a codified legal concept, vulnerability has been increasingly used over the past years in the reasoning of the European Court of Human Rights. Some relevant cases dealing with the multi-faceted notion of vulnerability are retrospectively presented to exemplify this trend, consider...
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Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law
2022-12-01
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| description | Although not being a codified legal concept, vulnerability has been increasingly used over the past years in the reasoning of the European Court of Human Rights. Some relevant cases dealing with the multi-faceted notion of vulnerability are retrospectively presented to exemplify this trend, considering two aspects. First, the paper explores the process of juridification of vulnerability in the ECtHR’s case law from the perspective of the sociology of law. Through the emerging uncodified notion of vulnerability, it seeks to inquire the relationship of juridification and legal culture focusing on the legal response to social needs arising from the use of vulnerability. Second, the paper conceptualizes vulnerability looking at its interplay with different human rights’ violations. The paper ultimately aims to re-theorize the role of legal culture as a catalyst for juridification, taking vulnerable conditions and their relevance to the law as a paradigmatic example of social change.
Pese a no ser un concepto jurídico codificado, la vulnerabilidad ha sido cada vez más utilizada en los últimos años en el razonamiento del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos. Para ejemplificar esta tendencia, se presentan retrospectivamente algunos casos relevantes que abordan la multifacética noción de vulnerabilidad, considerando dos aspectos. En primer lugar, el artículo explora el proceso de juridificación de la vulnerabilidad en la jurisprudencia del TEDH desde la perspectiva de la sociología del derecho. A través de la noción emergente de vulnerabilidad no codificada, se pretende indagar en la relación de la juridificación y la cultura jurídica centrándonos en la respuesta legal a las necesidades sociales que surgen del uso de la vulnerabilidad. En segundo lugar, el documento conceptualiza la vulnerabilidad examinando su interacción con diferentes violaciones de los derechos humanos. En última instancia, el documento pretende volver a teorizar el papel de la cultura jurídica como catalizador de la juridificación, tomando las condiciones de vulnerabilidad y su relevancia para el derecho como ejemplo paradigmático del cambio social.
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| spelling | doaj.art-455e65e88ded4c848f0c6b57908848bb2022-12-22T04:35:57ZengOñati International Institute for the Sociology of LawOñati Socio-Legal Series2079-59712022-12-01126139114162409The juridification of vulnerability in the European legal cultureMariavittoria Catanzariti0EUIAlthough not being a codified legal concept, vulnerability has been increasingly used over the past years in the reasoning of the European Court of Human Rights. Some relevant cases dealing with the multi-faceted notion of vulnerability are retrospectively presented to exemplify this trend, considering two aspects. First, the paper explores the process of juridification of vulnerability in the ECtHR’s case law from the perspective of the sociology of law. Through the emerging uncodified notion of vulnerability, it seeks to inquire the relationship of juridification and legal culture focusing on the legal response to social needs arising from the use of vulnerability. Second, the paper conceptualizes vulnerability looking at its interplay with different human rights’ violations. The paper ultimately aims to re-theorize the role of legal culture as a catalyst for juridification, taking vulnerable conditions and their relevance to the law as a paradigmatic example of social change. Pese a no ser un concepto jurídico codificado, la vulnerabilidad ha sido cada vez más utilizada en los últimos años en el razonamiento del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos. Para ejemplificar esta tendencia, se presentan retrospectivamente algunos casos relevantes que abordan la multifacética noción de vulnerabilidad, considerando dos aspectos. En primer lugar, el artículo explora el proceso de juridificación de la vulnerabilidad en la jurisprudencia del TEDH desde la perspectiva de la sociología del derecho. A través de la noción emergente de vulnerabilidad no codificada, se pretende indagar en la relación de la juridificación y la cultura jurídica centrándonos en la respuesta legal a las necesidades sociales que surgen del uso de la vulnerabilidad. En segundo lugar, el documento conceptualiza la vulnerabilidad examinando su interacción con diferentes violaciones de los derechos humanos. En última instancia, el documento pretende volver a teorizar el papel de la cultura jurídica como catalizador de la juridificación, tomando las condiciones de vulnerabilidad y su relevancia para el derecho como ejemplo paradigmático del cambio social. Available from: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-1314https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/1442legal culturevulnerabilityjuridificationnon-discriminationhuman rightscultura jurídicavulnerabilidadno discriminaciónderechos humanosjuridificación |
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| title | The juridification of vulnerability in the European legal culture |
| title_full | The juridification of vulnerability in the European legal culture |
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| title_short | The juridification of vulnerability in the European legal culture |
| title_sort | juridification of vulnerability in the european legal culture |
| topic | legal culture vulnerability juridification non-discrimination human rights cultura jurídica vulnerabilidad no discriminación derechos humanos juridificación |
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