Angelika Rebecca Reichstein
Email: Angelika Reichstein
The right to life – a right to have a life and a right to end one’s life?
The right to lifeis guaranteed by Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). It is, however, not an absolute right, as Art. 2.1. allows states to exercise the death penalty (if it is provided by law) and lists three further limitations under Article 2.2. Two aspects limiting the exercise of the right to life not dealt with by Article 2 of the Convention are abortion and (medically assisted) suicide. The aim of this dissertation will be to research both topics as dealt with by human rights law and as a comparison between England and Germany, seeing how the national law on those topics has developed over the last centuries. In doing so I hopefully will show that the human right to life does miss out on regulating the edges of life: the right to have a life in the first place and the right to end it by free choice.
Μr Ralph Sandland and Professor Alastair Mowbray
European Union Research Excellence Scholarship, International Office/School of Law Scholarship
Academic Qualification
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Awarding Institution
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LLM
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The University of Nottingham
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MA
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Universität Bremen
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2011-12 Student Research Assistant for the HRLC: committee coordinator of the student committee organizing the 13th Annual Student Human Rights Conference
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2010-11 Student Research Assistant for the HRLC: member of the student committee organizing the 12th Annual Student Human Rights Conference.