Advocating Social Change through International Law

Daniel D. Bradlow, is SARCHI Professor of International Development Law and African Economic Relations, University of Pretoria; Professor Emeritus, American University Washington College of Law. He has published on international legal aspects of IFIs, finance and human rights, and development.David B. Hunter is Professor of Law at American University's Washington College of Law. He has authored many articles on international and comparative environmental law and is co-author of International Environmental Law & Policy, now in its fifth edition.

• AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsNotes on Contributors1 Introduction: Exploring the Relationship between Hard and Soft International Law and Social ChangeDaniel D. Bradlow and David B. Hunter2 The Softening of Hard Law and the Hardening of Soft Law: an Extended SynopsisUpendra Baxi3 Promoting Social Change through Treaties and Customary International Law: the Experience of the Inter-American Human Rights SystemClaudio Grossman4 Children’s Rights: Social Change through the Application of Hard and Soft International LawAnn Skelton5 The International Criminal Court and the Use of Hard Law in the Quest for Accountability for Core International CrimesAngela Mudukuti6 The Hard Choices in Promoting Environmental Access RightsNatalia Gomez Peña and David B. Hunter7 The Hard Choice for Soft Commitments in the Climate Change RegimeDavid B. Hunter8 A Turning Point in a Slow Revolution: the who Framework Convention on Tobacco ControlPatricia Anne Lambert9 Soft International Law and the Promotion of Financial Regulation and ResponsibilityDaniel D. Bradlow10 Levers for and Obstacles to Social Change: Bank Lending, the Law and the Equator PrinciplesSheldon Leader and Luis Felipe Yanes11 Non-Judicial Grievance Mechanisms: Hardening the Soft Law of Corporate Accountability?Nikki Reisch12 Hard and Soft International Law and Their Contribution to Social Change: the Lessons LearnedDaniel D. Bradlow and David B. HunterIndex