This Research Topic brings together the results of a legal investigation into the properties of
the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and …

The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) epitomizes the potential
and the limits of soft law in promoting global migration governance. While being a catalyst of …

This introductory article aims to clarify why soft law is an interesting field to explore from a
legal anthropological perspective and to point out a number of issues this theme section …

Political scientists and legal scholars have increasingly explored the concepts of hard and
soft law in international governance. 1 Although the concept of soft law remains to some …

The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration has prompted an intense
political debate at both the international and domestic levels. Most controversies focus on its …

The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was adopted on 11 December
2018 by 163 States at the Marrakesh Intergovernmental Conference and, days later, was …

In his 1996 article “the redundancy of soft law”, Klabbers presented the argument that soft
law can only coexist with hard law if it is accepted that international law consists of multiple …

Through a variety of examples, an appraisal of EU third-country informal cooperation on
migration is provided to show that a preference towards softer instruments of cooperation …

The 2016 New York Declaration, 1 for the first time in United Nations (UN) history, coalesced
a diverging palette of regional and a few multilateral efforts before the UN General …

One of the most debated and criticized characteristics of the Global Compact for Safe,
Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) is its legally non-binding form. This article analyzes …