European Consensus between Strategy and Principle

The Uses of Vertically Comparative Legal Reasoning in Regional Human Rights Adjudication

von Jens T. Theilen

497 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This study offers a critical account of the reasoning employed by the European Court of Human Rights, particularly its references to European consensus. Based on an in-depth analysis of the Court’s case-law against the backdrop of human rights theory, it will be of interest to both practitioners and theorists. While European consensus is often understood as providing an objective benchmark within the Court’s reasoning, this study argues to the contrary that it forms part of the very structures of argument that render human rights law indeterminate. It suggests that foregrounding consensus and the Court’s legitimacy serves to entrench the status quo and puts forward novel ways of approaching human rights to enable social transformation. The work was awarded the Hermann Mosler Prize of the German Society for International Law.

• Reihe: Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht
• Themen: Recht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht Menschenrechte
• ISBN: 9783848780914
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.04.2021
• Größe: 22.7 x 15.3 cm
• Verlag: Nomos