Research Handbook on Soft Law

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Introduction to Research Handbook on Soft Law
PART I: DEFINITIONS, HISTORY AND CONTEXT
	1 Bamboo, or governance through soft law: hybridity, legitimacy, and sustainability • Francis Snyder
	2 Soft law: an historical introduction 31Nils Jansen
	3 The definition of soft law • Fabien Terpan
	4 An economic analysis of soft law as a regulatory tool • Michael Faure and Niels Philipsen
	5 Anthropology and soft law • Filippo M. Zerilli
	6 Democracy and soft law • Ulrika Mörth
PART II: DISCIPLINES, REGIMES AND AUTHORITY
	7 Soft law in European public law • Bruno de Witte
	8 Better regulation as soft law • Claudio M. Radaelli and Gaia Taffoni
	9 Rules and responsibilities: business and social norms in transnational governance • Boris Holzer
	10 Soft law, technical standards and European private law • Hans-W. Micklitz
	11 Soft authority in global governance • Jan Klabbers
	12 International standards and the dilution of responsibility • 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? • Mariolina Eliantonio and Emilia Korkea-aho
	14 EU economic governance, agencies and soft law: an accountability challenge for the courts? • Jacint Jordana and Joan Solanes Mullor
	15 Fictions and fuzziness: soft law rule-making among the EU’s decentralized agencies • Steven Vaughan
	16 Administrative guidance in the United States: the moral and political stakes of non-binding law • Blake Emerson
	17 Soft law making at the European Commission: not much of a one-institution show • Oana Ştefan
	18 Beyond norm entrepreneurs: civil society and the framing of the ‘legal’ through soft law • Rene Urueña and Rafael Tamayo-Álvarez
	19 The Open Method of Coordination (OMC): a hybrid tool of political leverage in the making • Minna van Gerven and Sabina Stiller
	20 Studying the EU soft law cycle: the role of domestic factors • 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? • Kati Kulovesi and María Eugenia Recio
	22 Soft law in city regulation and governance • Astrid Voorwinden and Sofia Ranchordás
	23 Soft law and citizenship regimes • Timothy Jacob-Owens and Jo Shaw
	24 Soft law: booster or brake for the promotion of gender equality in the EU? • Birte Böök and Linda Senden
	25 Soft law and the rule of law crisis • Joelle Grogan and Clara van Dam
	26 The role of soft law in the context of the financial crisis • Alexander H. Türk
	27 Soft law governance in the field of AI: a European perspective • Frederik Schade and Mikkel Flyverbom
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