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The Humanity Of Law, H. Jefferson Powell
Retribution And The Experience Of Punishment, John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco, Jonathan S. Masur
Retribution And The Experience Of Punishment, John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco, Jonathan S. Masur
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International Soft Law, Andrew T. Guzman, Timothy L. Meyer
International Soft Law, Andrew T. Guzman, Timothy L. Meyer
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Although the concept of soft law has existed for years, scholars have not reached consensus on why states use soft law or even whether “soft law” is a coherent analytic category. In part, this confusion reflects a deep diversity in both the types of international agreements and the strategic situations that produce them. In this paper, we advance four complementary explanations for why states use soft law that describe a much broader range of state behavior than has been previously explained.
First, and least significantly, states may use soft law to solve straightforward coordination games in which the existence of …