The European Consensus Doctrine and the ECtHR Quest for Public Confidence
(2019)
Book Chapter
Bassok, O. (2019). The European Consensus Doctrine and the ECtHR Quest for Public Confidence. In P. Kapotas, & V. P. Tzevelekos (Eds.), Building Consensus on European Consensus: Judicial Interpretation of Human Rights in Europe and Beyond (236-257). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
All Outputs (4)
The Arendtian Dread: courts with power (2017)
Journal Article
Bassok, O. (2017). The Arendtian Dread: courts with power. Ratio Juris, 30(4), 417-432. https://doi.org/10.1111/raju.12186Hannah Arendt was fearful not only of a populist President speaking in the name of the people and unbound by legality. She was also concerned that the popular will could be harnessed to support those responsible for limiting it. More concretely, she... Read More about The Arendtian Dread: courts with power.
Missing in action: the human eye (2016)
Book Chapter
Bassok, O. (2016). Missing in action: the human eye. In . F. Fabbrini, & V. C. Jackson (Eds.), Constitutionalism across borders in the struggle against terrorism (283-304). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar PublishingThe growing involvement of lawyers in approving military operations, coupled with the disappearance of the soldier’s unmediated gaze of the battlefield, increase the probability for the execution of a certain kind of manifestly unlawful orders. Two d... Read More about Missing in action: the human eye.
The Supreme Court at the bar of public opinion polls (2016)
Journal Article
Bassok, O. (2016). The Supreme Court at the bar of public opinion polls. Constellations, 23(4), 573-584. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8675.12211The idea that the American Supreme Court requires public support to function properly is not an inherent timeless truth. It has history. Currently, those who view it as a timeless truth use the famous dictum from The Federalist No. 78 to argue that w... Read More about The Supreme Court at the bar of public opinion polls.