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 …

Soft law is a doctrinal creation, which has no real ground in positive law. Article 38 (1) of the
Statute of the International Court of Justice makes no reference to soft law as a possible …

The article seeks a definition of soft law by focusing on relevant scholarly views.
Conventional sources of international law appear to have certain shortcomings when it …

Soft law is often seen as a way to overcome certain problems of legitimacy in international
law, notably the weaknesses of a voluntaristic conception of international law's validity …

Engaging with a mundane topic like the softness of international law may certainly look
surprising to the readership of a journal known for its avowed and constant quest for an …

For some time now, the concept of soft law has been gaining currency in interna tional legal
parlance. The notion, however, refers to a legal phenomenon that is neither new nor limited …

As international law grows and spreads into non-traditional areas such as the international
ecosystem, the global economy, and human rights, some say it is becoming fragmented …

International agreements not concluded as treaties and therefore not covered by the Vienna
Convention on the Law of Treaties play an important role in international relations. Often …

David Hume's words carry a distinct flavour of timeliness when read in the light of present-
day debates concerning soft law. The term soft law, thus delimited, denotes those …

The topic of international soft law has long confounded both legal scholars and political
scientists. Although the term soft law has been in the legal lexicon since at least the 1970s …