Aspects of ‘Soft Law’ and the Use of ‘MoUs’ as a Tool for 'Soft' Cooperation
Journal: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science
Year: 2020

The paper conceptualises and presages 'soft law' as widely adopted and followed despite lacking a coercive and legal force. However, since legal standards are susceptible to cooperation network tendencies. It is evident that a substantial part of 'soft law' today, in an impressionistic way, describes part of tomorrow's 'hard law'. In this sense, the normative emission of international institutions is playing a catalytic role in the process. Since the cooperation tendencies often occur when the v