Towards a general typology of consensus analysis : from entrenching divergence to constituting convergence

KUKAVICA, Jaka

Towards a general typology of consensus analysis : from entrenching divergence to constituting convergence

dc.contributor.author	KUKAVICA, Jaka
dc.date.accessioned	2022-11-02T15:59:02Z
dc.date.available	2022-11-02T15:59:02Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.description	Published online on 31 October 2022
dc.description.abstract	Consensus analysis is a method of interpretation and an argumentative practice employed by some of the highest courts in multilevel legal systems, ranging from national federations to systems with origins in international law. In its most basic and most prevalent form, consensus analysis is used by courts when they interpret a legal norm of a higher-level legal order based on how this norm had been interpreted and implemented in lower-level legal orders – the constituent states. Though there is abundant literature on the applications of consensus analysis within specific jurisdictions, few, if any at all, have attempted to transcend the dependence of their analyses on a specific systemic context and to examine consensus analysis as a practice in the abstract. This chapter aims to begin to fill this gap. It analyses consensus analysis as used by the United States Supreme Court, the Court of Justice of the European Union, and the European Court of Human Rights to inductively devise a general typology of consensus analysis as used across different courts and institutional contexts. Establishing this typology is instrumental to our understanding that consensus may serve either as a converging or diverging mechanism for resolving conflicts in multilevel legal orders. Which of the two functions it serves will depend on what type of consensus is used by a specific court in an individual case.	en
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dc.identifier.issn	2246-4891
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dc.publisher	University of Copenhagen, Danish National Research Foundation	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	iCourts Working Paper	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	2022/306	en
dc.relation.uri	https://jura.ku.dk/icourts/research-resources/working-papers/	en
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dc.title	Towards a general typology of consensus analysis : from entrenching divergence to constituting convergence	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
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