Building Consensus on European Consensus - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vii

Contributors

pp viii-ix

Foreword

pp x-xiii

Acknowledgements

pp xiv-xiv

1 - How (Difficult Is It) to Build Consensus on (European) Consensus?

pp 1-26

Part I - Understanding European Consensus

pp 27-186

2 - European Consensus

pp 29-41

3 - Consensus in the Legitimacy-Building Era of the European Court of Human Rights

pp 42-70

4 - Consensus, Stasis, Evolution

pp 71-95

5 - The Consensus Argument in NGOs’ Amicus Curiae Briefs

pp 96-119

6 - Determining the Content of the European Consensus Concept

pp 120-140

7 - How the ECtHR’s Use of European Consensus Considerations Allows Legitimacy Concerns to Delimit Its Mandate

pp 141-166

8 - Borges’ Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote and the Idea of a European Consensus

pp 167-186

Part II - Appraising European Consensus

pp 187-334

9 - A Better Signpost, Not a Better Walking Stick: How to Evaluate the European Consensus Doctrine

pp 189-209

10 - Constructive Consensus and Domestic Democracy

pp 210-235

11 - The European Consensus Doctrine and the ECtHR Quest for Public Confidence

pp 236-257

12 - Can European Consensus Encourage Acceptance of the European Convention on Human Rights in the United Kingdom?

pp 258-282

13 - When to Use European Consensus

pp 283-310

14 - When the European Court of Human Rights Decides Not to Decide

pp 311-334

Part III - Consensus Analysis Outside the ECHR System

pp 335-467

15 - The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Tentative Search for Latin American Consensus

pp 337-363

16 - National Consensus and the Eighth Amendment

pp 364-391

17 - Levels of Generality in the Comparative Reasoning of the European Court of Human Rights and the European Court of Justice

pp 392-420

18 - Consensus as Challenge and Retraction of Rights

pp 421-447

19 - Building Consensus on European Consensus

pp 448-467

Index

pp 468-488