Soft law: complement, alternative or future of law? Cover Image
  • Price 4.90 €

Dreptul suplu: complement, alternativă ori viitor al dreptului?
Soft law: complement, alternative or future of law?

Author(s): Mircea Duțu
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Uniunea Juriștilor din România
Keywords: flexible law; hard law; soft law; EU governance; flexibility; technical norms; recommendation; programming law.

Summary/Abstract: Announced in theory, present in practice, and recognized everywhere, „flexible law” is seeking its own accreditation at a doctrinal level. Covering a number of highly heterogeneous normative instruments (directives, advices, charters, codes of conduct, et al.) having as a common element the fact of being imposed not by constraint, but by the adhesion of its recipients, it manifests itself specifically in international law (as „soft law”), EU law (as a method of governance), or internal order (as a lever of achieving the functions of the state). In relation to proper law („hard law”), flexible law manifests itself either as its precursor, in the process of adoption, a companion in its enforcement, or, in certain situations, as a substitute. Knowing diverse national experiences, flexible law presents itself as a factor of simplification and improvement of the quality of legal regulations.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 179-196
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Romanian