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 …

Soft law plays an increasing role in EU external migration law, particularly in the context of
EU-Africa cooperation on migration. A legal-analytical inquiry into the formats and functions …

The European Union adopted soft law as its most promising regulatory tool at the Lisbon
Summit in March 2000. Analysis of soft law has been inconclusive to date, divided between …

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 …

This article is based on the assumption that there is a continuum running from non‐legal
positions to legally binding and judicially controlled commitments with, in between these two …

Discussion on soft law has been revived since in the middle of the 1990s. In response to
issues of worldwide importance, such as the protection of the global environment, the …

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 …

From a law-making perspective the term 'soft law'is simply a convenient description for a
variety of non-legally binding instruments used in contemporary international relations by …

This article investigates some of the drawbacks of the notion of soft law, with special
reference to the European Union context. The author argues that soft law, useful as it may …

In this article, the author discusses various consequences of the softness of soft law. He
acknowledges that the concept of soft law is useful for certain endeavours in international …