The European Court of Human Rights’ margin of appreciation doctrine is of growing importance in general international law. Existing scholarship, however, fails to consider the political stakes involved in its use. The aim of this paper is to offer a reconceptualisation of the margin as a tool of global governance in the context of the increasing judicialisation of human rights protection in Europe. It then proposes four sketches of its possible governance effects, situating it within broader debates concerning competing models of international constitutionalisation, the Court’s unarticulated discrimination between different European States, and the challenges the Court faces in maximising compliance with its judgments. The paper concludes by arguing that the Court’s use of the margin as an ‘escape valve’ to avoid potentially controversial proportionality assessments poses a challenge to its long-term legitimacy, and involves a kind of ‘bad faith’ exercise of its governance power.

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从边缘治理：欧洲人权法院的鉴赏准则作为全球治理的工具

欧洲人权法院的赞赏原则在一般国际法中日益重要。但是，现有的奖学金未能考虑其使用所涉及的政治利益。本文的目的是在欧洲人权保护司法化的背景下，对保证金的重新概念化作为全球治理的工具。然后，它提出了其可能的治理效果的四个草图，将其置于关于国际宪政的竞争模式，法院在不同欧洲国家之间的明确表达的歧视以及法院在最大限度地遵守其判决方面面临的挑战的广泛辩论中。