Jump to content
European Consensus between Strategy and Principle / Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis
European Consensus between Strategy and Principle / Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
Chapter
Expand
|
Collapse
Page
1–14
Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis
1–14
Details
15–59
Chapter 1: Justifying Concrete Norms in Regional Human Rights Law: The Uses of European Consensus in the Court’s Processes of Justification
15–59
Details
I. Human Rights Adjudication: High Stakes and Little Guidance
Details
II. Introducing European Consensus
Details
III. Key Characteristics of European Consensus
Details
IV. European Consensus and Critical International Legal Theory
Details
1. Different Perspectives on Consensus: Structuralist Methodology
Details
2. Human Rights between Apology and Utopia
Details
3. Morality-focussed and Ethos-focussed Perspectives
Details
4. Strategic Considerations and Consensus as Legitimacy-Enhancement
Details
5. The Indeterminacy of Processes of Justification
Details
V. Outline of the Following Chapters
Details
60–93
Chapter 2: Morality-focussed Perspectives: European Consensus as an Infringement on Prepolitical Rights
60–93
Details
I. Introduction
Details
II. Morality-focussed Criticism of European Consensus
Details
1. Minority Rights and the Tyranny of the Majority
Details
2. Regional Human Rights Law and Distrust of States
Details
3. The Is-Ought Distinction and Strict Normativity
Details
III. Ambivalent Morality-focussed Perspectives on the Spur Effect
Details
IV. Interim Reflections: Tackling Prejudice
Details
94–136
Chapter 3: Ethos-focussed Perspectives: From National Ethe to a Pan-European Ethos
94–136
Details
I. Introduction
Details
II. Against the Morality-focussed Perspective: Differing Epistemologies
Details
III. National Ethe: From Traditions to Democratic Procedures
Details
IV. Ethos-focussed Perspectives at the Transnational Level
Details
1. Lack of Regional Democracy and Human Rights as a Cooperative Venture
Details
2. The Democratic Credentials of European Consensus
Details
3. From National Ethe to a Pan-European Ethos
Details
4. Implications of Harmonisation: Human Rights and European Integration
Details
V. Interim Reflections: Vestiges of Homogeneity
Details
137–175
Chapter 4: Interaction between Morality-focussed and Ethos-focussed Perspectives: Triangular Tensions and Instrumental Allegiances
137–175
Details
I. Introduction
Details
II. An Attempt at Reconciliation: The Condorcet Jury Theorem
Details
1. European Consensus as Collective Wisdom
Details
2. The Spur Effect and the Similarity Condition
Details
3. The Rein Effect and Bias Across States
Details
III. Triangular Tensions and Instrumental Allegiances
Details
1. Persistent Tensions Due to Differing Epistemologies and Idealisations
Details
2. From Tensions to Oscillation: The Example of Core Rights
Details
3. Instrumental Allegiances
Details
IV. Interim Reflections: Against Naturalisation
Details
176–209
Chapter 5: Establishing Consensus (I): Numerical Issues
176–209
Details
I. Introduction
Details
II. Consensus as Reasonable Agreement: But What Is Reasonable?
Details
III. Factually Oriented Approaches to European Consensus
Details
1. The Conventional Account: Asymmetry in Favour of the Rein Effect
Details
2. The Ethos-focussed Perspective versus Consensus-Agnostic Middle Ground
Details
3. The Ethos-focussed Perspective versus the Epistemic Approach
Details
IV. Morality-focussed Elements: Trends and Directionality
Details
V. Interim Reflections: Statistical and Ideal Majorities
Details
210–251
Chapter 6: Establishing Consensus (II): International Law as European Consensus
210–251
Details
I. Introduction
Details
II. European Consensus and Systemic Integration
Details
III. Ethos-focussed and Morality-focussed Perspectives on International Law
Details
IV. Different Kinds of Regional and International Law
Details
1. Taxonomies of International Law References
Details
2. Law of the European Union
Details
3. Council of Europe Materials
Details
4. Global International Law
Details
5. Soft Law
Details
6. Non-Representative Documents
Details
V. Consensus based on International Law versus Consensus based on Domestic Law
Details
VI. Interim Reflections: International Law as Grounded Yet Aspirational
Details
252–284
Chapter 7: Establishing Consensus (III): Different Levels of Generality
252–284
Details
I. Introduction
Details
II. Levels of Generality in the Court’s Use of European Consensus
Details
III. The Implications of Shifting Levels of Generality
Details
1. Different Constellations within Triangular Tensions
Details
2. Shifting Levels of Generality as a Search for Reflective Equilibrium
Details
IV. Interim Reflections: Beyond the Goldilocks Level of Generality
Details
285–328
Chapter 8: Consensus in Context: Autonomous Concepts, the Margin of Appreciation, and Tensions within the Court’s Doctrines
285–328
Details
I. Introduction
Details
II. Autonomous Concepts
Details
III. The Margin of Appreciation and Convention Standards
Details
1. Two Concepts of the Margin of Appreciation – and of Consensus?
Details
2. Contextualising the Rein Effect
Details
3. Contextualising the Spur Effect
Details
IV. Interim Reflections: Instable Oscillations and Doctrinal Connotations
Details
329–366
Chapter 9: The Strategic Approach: Consensus as Legitimacy-Enhancement
329–366
Details
I. Introduction
Details
II. European Consensus as Legitimacy-Enhancement
Details
1. Investing Sociological Legitimacy with Normativity
Details
2. The Background Assumption: Overcoming a “Legitimacy Crisis”
Details
3. The States Parties as Agents of Legitimacy
Details
4. European Consensus as the Basis of Incremental Development
Details
5. The Court as the Object of Legitimacy: Strategic Implications
Details
III. The Practical Limitations of Consensus as Legitimacy-Enhancement
Details
IV. Interim Reflections: Abstract Strategizing
Details
367–401
Chapter 10: Of Conflation and Normalisation: European Consensus between Strategy and Principle
367–401
Details
I. Introduction
Details
II. Non-Ideal Theory: The Dilemma of Strategic Concessions
Details
III. European Consensus as a Conflation of Strategy and Principle
Details
1. Different Perspectives on Consensus within Non-Ideal Theory
Details
2. Consensus and an Impression of Objectivity
Details
3. The Normalisation of a Strategic Approach to Consensus
Details
IV. Interim Reflections: Rethinking the Role of the Court
Details
402–449
Chapter 11: Engaging with Indeterminacy: Imagining Different Uses for Vertically Comparative Legal Reasoning
402–449
Details
I. Pulling Together the Threads: Beyond Consensus as Compromise
Details
II. Indeterminacy and the Motivation for Critique
Details
III. The Role of Human Rights Courts
Details
IV. Justifying Concrete Norms in Regional Human Rights Law, Revisited
Details
1. The Indeterminacy Thesis in the Judicial Context
Details
2. European Consensus and the Perpetuation of Current Power Structures
Details
3. A More Openly Political Court?
Details
4. Vertically Comparative Law as a Reflective Disruption of Equilibrium
Details
V. Outlook: Future Articulations of Human Rights
Details
450–460
Table of Cases
450–460
Details
461–497
Bibliography
461–497
Details
Durchsuchen Sie das Werk
Geben Sie ein Keyword in die Suchleiste ein
CC-BY
Access
European Consensus between Strategy and Principle , page 1 - 14
Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis
Autoren
Jens T. Theilen
DOI
doi.org/10.5771/9783748925095-1
ISBN print: 978-3-8487-8091-4
ISBN online: 978-3-7489-2509-5
Chapter Preview
Chapter Preview
Share
Download PDF
Download citation
RIS
BibTeX
Copy DOI link
doi.org/10.5771/9783748925095-1
Share by email
Video schließen
Share by email Nomos eLibrary
Recipient*
Sender*
Message*
Your name
Send message
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google
Privacy Policy
and
Terms of Service
apply.
