European Consensus between Strategy and Principle by Theilen (ISBN 978-3-7489-2509-5)

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

Von Dr. Jens T. Theilen

Nomos, 2021, 497 Pages, E-Book

ISBN 978-3-7489-2509-5

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englischThis 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.

Dieses Werk analysiert die Argumentationsstrukturen des Europäischen Gerichtshofs für Menschenrechte, insbesondere dessen Verweise auf einen Europäischen Konsensus. Es verbindet kritische Menschenrechtstheorie mit einer eingehenden Analyse der Rechtsprechung des Gerichtshofs.
Während der Europäische Konsensus oft als objektives Element innerhalb der Argumentation des Gerichtshofs angesehen wird, legt diese Studie dar, dass er Teil der argumentativer Strukturen bildet, die zur Unbestimmtheit von Menschenrechten führen. Konsensus und die Legitimität des Gerichtshofs zu betonen, dient der Verankerung des Status Quo. Der Autor schlägt alternative Ansätze vor, um Menschenrechte als Instrument sozialer Transformation denken zu können.
Die Arbeit wurde mit dem Hermann-Mosler-Preis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Internationales Recht ausgezeichnet.

»Many insights which stand on their own feet, and one can read this normative position as a sign of intellectual (and political) honesty of the author who is simply open about their internal motivations and views. In that sense, there is no stone that remains to be turned, including the author’s position, which will – one can expect with excitement – be further developed and defended in future work.«
Bosko Tripkovic, CML Rev. 2023, 1189

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