Dinah Shelton (ed.)

Commitment and Compliance

The Role of Non-Binding Norms in the International Legal System
Herausgeber: Shelton, Dinah

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Produktbeschreibung

Commitment and Compliance is the first book to evaluate the impact of state behaviour of international norms adopted in forms that are not legally binding. The use of such 'soft law' has increased dramatically with the proliferation of international organizations. Whether and how such norms can be used effectively to supplement or substitute for legally binding obligations forms the heart of this discussion. In the study, a project of the American Society of International Law, the authors look at four subject areas in international law: human rights, environment, arms control, and trade and finance, assessing the use of non-binding norms in each field and whether such norms engender state compliance with them. The discussion also generally addresses the nature of international law and the role on non-binding norms in the international legal system.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 596
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 993g
• ISBN-13: 9780198298083
• ISBN-10: 0198298080
• Artikelnr.: 21089980

Autorenporträt

Dinah Shelton is professor of international law at the University of Notre Dame Law School. She is director of the doctoral program at the Universitys Center for Civil and Human Rights and a Fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Law, Non-Law and the Problem of Soft Law
* PART I. THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM
* 1: Christine Chinkin: Normative Development in the International
Legal System
* 2: Compliance Theories
* Choosing to Comply
* Beyond Compliance: Helping Nations Cooperate
* 3: Challenges to the International Legal System
* Economic Interdependence, Globalization and Sovereignty
* The Role of Soft Law in the Global Order
* 4: Jonathan Charney: Commentary and Conclusions: Compliance with Soft
Law
* PART II. PERSPECTIVES ON COMPLIANCE WITH NON-BINDING NORMS
* 5: The Environment and Natural Resources
* The General Assembly Ban on Driftnet Fishing
* Pesticides and Chemicals: The Requirement of Prior Informed Consent
* Antarctica: Recommended Measures as Nonbinding Norms
* Selected Agreements under the Framework of the Convention on
Migratory Species
* Commentary and Conclusions
* 6: Trade and Finance
* Money Laundering
* Soft Law in a Hybrid Organization: The International Organization for
Standardization
* The World Bank Operational Standards
* Environmental Norms in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum
* Commentary and Conclusions
* 7: Human Rights
* A Hard Look at Soft Law: The Case of the OSCE
* International Labor Organization Recommendations and Similar
Instruments
* Inter-American Human Rights Law, Soft and Hard: What Difference?
* Human Rights Codes for Transnational Corporations: The McBride and
Sullivan Principles
* Commentary and Conclusions
* 8: Multilateral Arms Control
* Soft Law of the Weapons Control Supplier Groups
* Protection of Nuclear Materials
* Land Mines
* Commentary and Conclusions
* 9: Edith Brown Weiss and Dinah Shelton: Conclusions