Non-State Actors, Soft Law and Protective Regimes

by Bailliet, Cecilia M.

• ISBN13: 9781107021853
• ISBN10: 1107021855
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-11-12
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

By offering critical perspectives of normative developments within international law, this volume of essays unites academics from various disciplines to address concerns regarding the interpretation and application of international law in context. The authors present common challenges within international criminal law, human rights, environmental law and trade law, and point to unintended risks and consequences, in particular for vulnerable interests such as women and the environment. Omissions within normative or institutional frameworks are highlighted and the importance of addressing accountability of state and non-state actors for violations or regressions of minimum protection guarantees is underscored. Overall, it advocates harmonisation over fragmentation, pursuant to the aspiration of asserting the interests of our collective humanity without necessarily advocating an international constitutional order.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Protection Gaps within International Criminal Law

Creating international law: gender as new paradigm

Legal redress for children on the front line: the invisibility of the female child

Understanding the post-conflict terrain for women in the context of prevailing gender hierarchies: stereotypes and masculinities

Who is the most able and willing? Complementarity and victim reparations at the International Criminal Court

Measuring the Impact of Non-State Actors within International Human Rights

What is to become of the human rights-based international order within an age of neo-medievalism?

Productive tensions: women's rights NGOs, the 'mainstream' human rights movement, and international lawmaking

Transnational lawmaking in Oslo - Norwegian-Pakistani women at the interface

Confronting the Challenge of Environmental Protection, Climate Change, and Sustainable Development: New Actors and Shifting Norms

The creation of international law of climate change: complexities of sub-state actors

International environmental law and soft law: a new direction or a contradiction?

Assuming away the problem: grappling with the vexing relationship between international trade and environmental protection

Quo vadis, Europe? The significance of sustainable development as objective, principle and rule of EU law

Conclusion

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