Tracing the Roles of Soft Law in Human Rights

Name: Tracing the Roles of Soft Law in Human Rights
Author: Lagoutte, Stephanie (EDT); Gammeltoft-hansen, Thomas (EDT); Cerone, John (EDT)
ISBN: 9780198791409

Lagoutte, Stephanie (EDT); Gammeltoft-hansen, Thomas (EDT); Cerone, John (EDT)

Language: English

Published by Oxford University Press, 2017

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Title: Tracing the Roles of Soft Law in Human Rights
Author: Lagoutte, Stephanie (EDT); Gammeltoft-hansen, Thomas (EDT); Cerone, John (EDT)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication year: 2017
Condition: New
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0198791402
ISBN 13: 9780198791409

Soft law increasingly shapes and impacts the content of international law in multiple ways, from being a first step in a norm-making process to providing detailed rules and technical standards required for the interpretation and the implementation of treaties. This is especially true in the area of human rights. While relatively few human rights treaties have been adopted at the UN level in the last two decades, the number of declarations, resolutions, conclusions, and principles has grown significantly. In some areas, soft law has come to fill a void in the absence of treaty law, exerting a degree of normative force exceeding its non-binding character. In others areas, soft law has become a battleground for interpretative struggles to expand and limit human rights protection in the context of existing regimes.

Despite these developments, little attention has been paid to soft law within human rights legal scholarship. Building on a thorough analysis of relevant case studies, this volume systematically explores the roles of soft law in both established and emerging human rights regimes. The book argues that a better understanding of how soft law shapes and affects different branches of international human rights law not only provides a more dynamic picture of the current state of international human rights, but also helps to unsettle and critically question certain political and doctrinal beliefs.

Following introductory chapters that lay out the general conceptual framework, the book is divided in two parts. The first part focuses on cases that examine the role of soft law within human rights regimes where there are established hard law standards, its progressive and regressive effects, and the role that different actors play in the incubation process. The second part focuses on the role of soft law in emerging areas of international law where there is no substantial treaty codification of norms. These chapters examine the relationship between soft and hard law, the role of different actors in formulating new soft law, and the potential for eventual codification.

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Stephanie Lagoutte is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights. She holds a Doctoral degree in law from the University of Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne and a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Aarhus. She has taught and published within the field of European Human Rights Law, including on the reform of the European Court of Human Rights, human rights, and family law as well as religious freedom. Most of her recent work focuses on the duties and role of the state in human rights protection. She has coordinated research projects with partners from developing countries, especially in West Africa. In 2012-2014 she has been working in close cooperation with the UN Working Group on Human Rights and Business focusing on state duties under the UN Guiding Principles on Human Rights and Business.

Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen is Research Director at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. He holds a doctoral degree in law from Aarhus University, an MSc in forced migration from the University of Oxford, and an MPhil in political science from the University of Copenhagen. In addition to his academic work, Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen serves as member of the Danish Refugee Appeals Board and has served as adviser and consultant to a number of international organisations, governmental institutions, and European NGOs.

John Cerone is Paul Martin Senior Professor in International Affairs & Law at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law, and Visiting Professor of International Law at The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University. In 2014-15, he was Distinguished Chair in Human Rights & Humanitarian Law at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Lund University Faculty of Law. Professor Cerone has worked for UN agencies, the OSCE, and several international human rights NGOs, and has served as a legal adviser to international criminal courts. He has extensive field experience in conflict and post-conflict environments, including Afghanistan, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, and East Timor. He is an elected member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law and has been a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Expert Group on the Law of Occupation. He also served as Special Adviser to the first U.S. delegation to the UN Human Rights Council.

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