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Abstract
Ever since its creation and coming into force in 2003, the Kimberley Process has elicited a number of academic commentaries coming from different backgrounds. Legal scholars who have contributed to the commentaries, simply projected the regulatory regime as an international soft law without further analysis, based on an evaluation of the text of the agreement. This article in contrast, explores its practical effects and the manner of obligations that it imposes on its participant countries. It argues that although the regime may have been a soft law by classification, its obligations are hard and are no different from those of a conventional treaty. Those obligations enhance its juridical force, and are a factor by which the regime on its own tends to nullify the traditional criteria for distinction between hard and soft law in international jurisprudence, because it has elements of both.
European Journal of Law Reform |
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Artikel | From a Soft Law Process to Hard Law ObligationsThe Kimberley Process and Contemporary International Legislative Process |
Keywords | Kimberley Process, soft law, international law, legislative process |
Authors | Martin-Joe Ezeudu |
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