Dr Yutaka Arai discusses Proportionality. In: Shelton, D, ed. The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law. OUP, pp. 446-468. ISBN 978-0-19-964013-3.- This paper is another theoretical examination of one of the prominent principles invoked in the case-law of international human rights law. The parameters of analysis are set on a global scale, and the modalities of applying proportionality by various international and regional treaty-based bodies are systematically assessed. Moreover, substantive moral theories on the justifiability of employing the metric of proportionality are fully explored. This is published in a book edited by one of the most leading experts of international human rights law, Prof. Dinah Shelton (ex-President of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights and former Vice-President of the American Society of International Law).
