Mariolina Eliantonio is Professor at the University of Maastricht.Emilia Korkea-aho is Associate Professor at the University of Eastern Finland Law School.Oana Stefan is Senior Lecturer in Law at King’s College, London.

• PART INORMATIVE ASSUMPTIONS2. Revisiting Soft Law: Governance, Regulation and Networks Imelda Maher, University College Dublin, Ireland3. Types of EU Soft Law and Their National Impact Andreas Hofmann, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany4. ‘Whatever-Law ’ and Teenage Member States ? : The National Reception of EU Soft Law and How to Study It Miriam Hartlapp, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany and Emilia Korkea-aho, University of Eastern Finland5. ‘Verba Volant, Quoque (Soft Law) Scripta?’: An Analysis of the Legal Effects of National Soft Law Implementing EU Soft Law in France and the UK Giulia Gentile, Maastricht University, NetherlandsPART IICOUNTRY ANALYSES6. EU Soft Law in Cyprus: In Search of Role and Value Napoleon Xanthoulis, the University of Portsmouth, UK and Anastasia Karatzia, University of Essex, UK7. The Finnish Soft Law Puzzle: How Can a Rule-Bound Parliamentary Democracy Be Reconciled with EU Soft Law?Emilia Korkea-aho, University of Eastern Finland, Katri Havu, University of Helsinki, Finland, Päivi Leino-Sandberg, University of Helsinki, Finland and Liisa Tarkkila, University of Helsinki, Finland8. No Longer Small Enough to Fall through the Cracks: A French Story of Adaptation to the Petites Sources of EU Law Nathalie Rubio, Aix-Marseille University, France and Oana Stefan, King’s College London, UK9. Soft Law in Germany: Still Opposing Dynamics in Status and Effect Miriam Hartlapp, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany, Andreas Hofmann, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany and Matthias Knauff, University of Jena, Germany10. The Approach of Hungarian Authorities to Soft Law: On the Road to Where? Petra Lea Láncos, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary11. Judges, Public Authorities and EU Soft Law in Italy: How You Cannot Tell a Book by its Cover Jacopo Alberti, University of Ferrara, Italy and Mariolina Eliantonio, Maastricht University, Netherlands12. Soft Law and Guidance in the Netherlands: At Odds with Legal Principles? Barbara Beijen, Radboud University, Netherlands13. The Uneasy Reception of EU Soft Law in the Slovenian Legal Order Matej Avbelj, New University in Ljubljana, Slovenia and Katarina Vatovec, New University in Ljubljana, Slovenia14. In Search of Symmetry Lost: European and Spanish Soft Law before the Spanish Authorities Luis Arroyo Jiménez, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain and José María Rodríguez de Santiago, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain15. EU Soft Law in the UK on the Eve of Brexit: (Not) Much Ado about Nothing? Mary Dobbs, Maynooth University, Ireland and Oana Stefan, King’s College London, UK16. Three Worlds of Chinese Soft Law Francis Snyder, Peking University, ChinaPART IIIEVALUATION17. Judicial Review of Soft Law before the European and the National Courts: A Wind of Change Blowing from the Member States? Mariolina Eliantonio, Maastricht University, Netherlands18. Legal Effects and Reviewability of EU Acts: Between Institutional Intentions and Perceptions of Concerned Parties Napoleon Xanthoulis, University of Portsmouth, UK19. Soft Law and the Promise of Transparency in the Member StatesOana Stefan, King’s College London, UK20. The National Politics of EU Soft Law: Sweden and the Balancing Act between Output and Input Legitimacy Ulrika Mörth, Stockholm University, Sweden21. Final Thoughts Niilo Jääskinen, Court of Justice of the European Union