Pluralism, Deference and the Margin of Appreciation Doctrine

Gerards, J.H.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0386.2010.00540.x

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“…Moreover, the procedural approach to the margin of appreciation makes explicit a premise of the Court's deference: Deference is based on the assumption that domestic institutions and procedures are working as they should, in a transparent manner, allowing for participation of affected rights-holders and, generally, under conditions that are capable of generating reasonable outcomes. 75 The procedural approach lays the foundation for an 'embedded' international regime of human rights, 76 or for subsidiarity as 'shared responsibility'. 77 In line with this, the Brussels Declaration of 2015 and the Copenhagen Declaration of 2018 pay closer attention than the Brighton Declaration of 2012 to the role of a range of actors for effective national implementation, including effective domestic remedies and appropriate involvement of national parliaments.…”

Section: Development Of International Human Rightsmentioning

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The Procedural Approach of the European Court of Human Rights: Between Subsidiarity and Dynamic Evolution

Kleinlein¹

2019

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This article explores how a procedural approach in the case law of the ECtHR combines subsidiarity and progressive development of international obligations. Rather than constituting a simple retreat from substantive commitments, it renders the obligations of Conventions States more flexible and has the potential to enhance the democratic legitimacy of the Court's rulings. This article first sets out various aspects of proceduralization in international human rights law. This is followed by a discussion of how procedural approaches are linked to subsidiarity. In the case law of the ECtHR, procedural approaches facilitate dynamic evolution, both in the practice of Convention States (analytic or bottom-up approach) or by the Court itself (constructive or top-down approach). This interaction of the procedural approach and arguments based on European Consensus allows the ECtHR and domestic institutions to fulfil their ‘shared responsibility’ for the effective protection of human rights in Europe.

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Section: Development Of International Human Rightsmentioning

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The Procedural Approach of the European Court of Human Rights: Between Subsidiarity and Dynamic Evolution

Kleinlein¹

2019

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“…113-150;Hutchinson, 1999;Kratochvíl, 2011; en sentido contrario, Gerards, 2011;Mahoney, 1998, y especialmente McGoldrick, 2011. Lo cierto es que la doctrina del margen ha tenido un impacto importante en algunos ámbitos.…”

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Subsidiariedad y tribunales internacionales de derechos humanos: ¿deferencia hacia los estados o división cooperativa del trabajo?

Vila

2017

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Resumen: En este trabajo desarrollo una teoría normativa del principio de subsidiariedad en la adjudicación internacional que pretende ofrecer una respuesta equilibrada a la pregunta de hasta qué punto es legítimo para un órgano como el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos interferir en el criterio estatal cuando valora una denuncia por violación de derechos convencionales. Frente a las demandas de una mayor deferencia hacia los Estados que encontramos tanto en Europa como en Latinoamérica, basadas en una idea estatista de la subsidiariedad, articulo una concepción «cooperativa» de los derechos humanos y del principio de subsidiariedad, uniéndolas a la idea de legitimidad ecológica sugerida por Buchanan. La propuesta que defiendo conduce a una división del trabajo institucional dentro de los sistemas regionales de derechos humanos que aumenta la legitimidad de todas las instituciones involucradas. Al mismo tiempo, desarrollo una forma de implementar esta concepción cooperativa, por una parte, mostrando la importancia de una lógica incremental en la protección efectiva de derechos humanos y, por otra parte, ofreciendo una versión racionalizada de la doctrina del margen de apreciación estatal.Palabras clave: derechos humanos, Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos, Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, subsidiariedad, legitimidad ecológica, incrementalismo, doctrina del margen de apreciación Abstract: In this article I develop a normative theory of the subsidiarity principle in international adjudication, which seeks to offer a balanced answer to the question of to what extent is it legitimate for a body such as the European Court of Human Rights to interfere with the national criteria in the face of a complaint on conventional rights violation. In contrast with demands for greater deference to states in both Europe and Latin America, based on a statist idea of subsidiarity, I articulate a «cooperative» understanding of the ideas of human rights and the principle of subsidiarity, linking them to Buchanan's notion of ecological legitimacy. The proposal I defend leads to a division of institutional labor within regional human rights systems that increases the legitimacy of all the institutions involved. At the same time, I devote the last part of the paper to implement such cooperative view, on the one hand, showing the importance of an incremental logic in the effective protection of human rights and, on the other hand, offering a rationalized version of the national margin of appreciation doctrine.

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“…10 Insofar as the primary role to secure the rights enshrined in the Convention corresponds to the national authorities, the task of the ECtHR is thus limited to intervene only when it is clear that they have failed in doing so. 11 In this context, the function of the margin of appreciation is to adjust the intensity of the review by the Strasbourg court on the conformity of the measures 5 Ibid. 6 See more largely in this regard F. J. Mena Parras, "Democracy, diversity and the margin of appreciation: a theoretical analysis from the perspective of the international and constitutional functions of the European Court of Human Rights" (2015) 29 Revista Electrónica de Estudios Internacionales, DOI: 10.17103/reei.29.10, <http://www.reei.org/index.php/revista/num29/notas/democracy-diversity-and-the-margin-of-appreciation-theoreticalanalysis-from-the-perspective-of-the-international-and-constitutional-functions-of-the-european-court-of-human-rights> accessed 25 June 2015.…”

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From Strasbourg to Luxembourg? Transposing the Margin of Appreciation Concept into EU Law

Parras

Javier²

2015

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Pluralism, Deference and the Margin of Appreciation Doctrine

Cited by 110 publications

References 3 publications

The Procedural Approach of the European Court of Human Rights: Between Subsidiarity and Dynamic Evolution

The Procedural Approach of the European Court of Human Rights: Between Subsidiarity and Dynamic Evolution

Subsidiariedad y tribunales internacionales de derechos humanos: ¿deferencia hacia los estados o división cooperativa del trabajo?

From Strasbourg to Luxembourg? Transposing the Margin of Appreciation Concept into EU Law

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