TY - JOUR A1 - Çalı, Başak T1 - Balancing Human Rights? Methodological Problems with Weights, Scales and Proportions JF - Human Rights Quarterly N2 - This article takes issue with the argument that human rights are not absolute and should be balanced in relation to competing communal aims. The balancing of qualified human rights is a key practice of the European Court of Human Rights and a great deal depends on a clear analysis of the ramifications of balancing for our understanding of human rights aims. The author does not seek to propose an alternative to balancing, but aims to show that it is not necessarily coherent with human rights principles or the kinds of functions international human rights institutions are thought to perform. KW - ECHR KW - balancing KW - proportionality Y1 - 2007 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hsog/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2259 SN - 1085-794X U6 - https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2007.0002 VL - 29 IS - 1 SP - 251 EP - 270 ER -