This book offers the first systematic investigation of soft law within the framework of the EC and its use by the European Commission and Council of Ministers.

This volume analyses, for the first time in European studies, the impact that non-legally binding material (otherwise known as soft law) has on national courts

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This incisive book evaluates the legal effects of soft law, its foundations and how they behave in some of the most innovative areas of EU law. Combining theory

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