Stéphanie Lagoutte (Danish Institute for Human Rights),
Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law), &
John Cerone (Univ. of Windsor - Law) have published
Tracing the Roles of Soft Law in Human Rights (Oxford Univ. Press 2016). Contents include:
- Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen, Stephanie Lagoutte, & John Cerone, Introduction: Tracing the roles of soft law in human rights
- John Cerone, A taxonomy of soft law
- Kasey McCall-Smith, Interpreting international human rights standards - treaty body general comments as a chisel or hammer?
- Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko, The role and impact of soft law on the emergence of the prohibition of violence against women within the context of the CEDAW
- Mátyás Bódig, Soft law, doctrinal development and the General Comments of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Rachel Murray & Debra Long, The role and use of soft law instruments in the African human rights system
- Bruce Oswald, The Copenhagen Process: some reflections concerning soft law
- Peter Vedel Kessing, The use of soft law in regulating armed conflict: from jus in bello to 'soft law in bello'?
- Megan Bradley & Angela Sherwood, Addressing and resolving internal displacement: reflections on a soft law "success story"
- Felipe Gómez Isa, The role of soft law in the progressive development of indigenous peoples' rights
- Léticia Villeneuve, Could the progressive 'hardening' of human rights soft law impair its further expansion? Insights from the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- Stéphanie Lagoutte, The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights - a confusing smart mix of soft and hard international human rights law
- Christoph Good, Mission creeps: the (unintended) re-enforcement of the actor's discussion in international law through the expansion of soft law instruments in the business and human rights nexus
- Anette Faye Jacobsen, Soft law within participation rights: tools in development
- Sally Holt, Zdenka Machnyikova & John Packer, The role of soft law in minority rights protection and diversity management: reflections from practice
