Top Scholars Gather at Temple to Address Role of Soft Law in International Governance

States increasingly turn to non-binding agreements to advance international cooperation in such areas as environmental protection, human rights, and financial regulation. But what explains the rise of these “soft law” instruments? On October 10, the Institute convened an invitation-only book roundtable to consider Andrew Guzman and Tim Meyer’s Goldilocks Globalism: …

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Roundtable on Koremenos’ Continent of International Law

On May 20th, 2013, the Institute hosted a book workshop on Professor Barbara Koremenos’ forthcoming Continent of International Law. The book explores questions of international institutional design, using a data base of several hundred treaties ranging across four issue areas: economics, environment, human rights, and security. Professor Koremenos is currently …

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