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Research Handbook on Soft Law

Edited by: Mariolina Eliantonio, Emilia Korkea-aho, Ulrika Mörth

ISBN13: 9781839101922
Published: November 2023
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £220.00



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This pioneering Research Handbook provides a comprehensive and in-depth scholarly overview of the field of soft law, exploring the scope of current thinking in the field as well as proposing future pathways for soft law research.

Organized into four broad themes, the Research Handbook offers important and unique insights into the dynamic and complex nature of soft law. The first section delves into the conceptual history and development of soft law. Second, the Handbook explores the disciplinary understandings of soft law, examining how scholars from different fields investigate the topic. The third theme focuses on the public and private actors and institutions involved in soft law-making, providing a detailed analysis of the complex relationships that shape soft law. Finally, the fourth theme explores the role of soft law in addressing major global societal challenges, including among others climate change, gender inequality, and the regulation of artificial intelligence.

This Research Handbook will be a key resource for students and scholars in constitutional and administrative law, public international law, regulation and governance, public administration and policy, and law and politics. Practitioners and policymakers seeking to better understand the role of soft law in domestic and international law, policy and governance will also find this book beneficial.

Subjects:
Constitutional and Administrative Law, Public International Law
Contents:
Introduction to Research Handbook on Soft Law 1

PART I. DEFINITIONS, HISTORY AND CONTEXT
1. Bamboo, or governance through soft law: hybridity, legitimacy, and
sustainability 9
Francis Snyder
2. Soft Law: an historical introduction 30
Nils Jansen
3. The definition of soft law 42
Fabien Terpan
4. An economic analysis of soft law as a regulatory tool 55
Michael Faure and Niels Philipsen
5. Anthropology and soft law 70
Filippo M. Zerilli
6. Democracy and soft law 86
Ulrika Mörth

PART II. DISCIPLINES, REGIMES AND AUTHORITY
7. Soft law in European public law 100
Bruno De Witte
8. Better regulation as soft law 115
Claudio M. Radaelli and Gaia Taffoni
9. Rules and responsibilities: Business and social norms in transnational
governance 131
Boris Holzer
10. Soft law, technical standards and European private law 144
Hans-W. Micklitz
11. Soft authority in global governance 161
Jan Klabbers
12. International standards and the dilution of responsibility 176
Ingrid Gustafsson Nordin and Kristina Tamm Hallström

PART III. ACTORS, INSTITUTIONS AND MAKING OF SOFT LAW
13. Soft law and courts: saviours or saboteurs of the rule of (soft) law? 190
Mariolina Eliantonio and Emilia Korkea-aho
14. EU economic governance, agencies and soft law: an accountability
challenge for the courts? 207
Jacint Jordana and Joan Solanes Mullor
15. Fictions and fuzziness: Soft law rule-making among the EU’s
decentralized agencies 223
Steven Vaughan
16. Administrative guidance in the United States 237
Blake Emerson
17. Soft law making at the European Commission: Not much of
a one-institution show 252
Oana Stefan
18. Beyond norm entrepreneurs: Civil society and the framing of the ‘legal’
through soft law 271
Rene Urueña and Rafael Tamayo-Álvarez
19. The Open Method of Coordination (OMC): A hybrid tool of political
leverage in the making 287
Minna van Gerven and Sabina Stiller
20. Studying the EU soft law cycle: the role of domestic factors 303
Anne Ausfelder, Adam Eick and Miriam Hartlapp

PART IV. CRISES, CHALLENGES AND CHANCES
21. Fighting a hard battle with a soft weapon: Is international climate
change law softening? 320
Kati Kulovesi and María Eugenia Recio
22. Soft law in city regulation and governance 337
Astrid Voorwinden and Sofia Ranchordás
23. Soft law and citizenship regimes 353
Timothy Jacob-Owens and Jo Shaw
24. Soft law: Booster or brake for the promotion of gender equality in the EU? 368
Birte Böök and Linda Senden
25. Soft law and the rule of law crisis 391
Joelle Grogan and Clara van Dam
26. The role of soft law in the context of the financial crisis 407
Alexander H. Türk
27. Soft law governance in the field of AI: A European perspective 423
Frederik Schade and Mikkel Flyverbom

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