@inbook{bbabca12058e429fab8cd002b820afed,
title = "Between flexibility and certainty: navigating between hard law and soft law in private international law",
abstract = "This chapter is part of a collective endeavour seeking to present a state-of-the-art overview of research and current thinking in private international law (PIL). It examines how this legal discipline navigates between hard and soft law, how this distinction relates to the dichotomy of legal rules and standards, and what the methodological significance of soft PIL in the contemporary setting is. It concludes that the development of PIL by means of soft law is a characterizing feature of our current pluralistic and decentralized PIL.",
keywords = "soft law, hard law, legal rules, legal standards, legal sources, non-binding private international law",
author = "{Perteg{\'a}s Sender}, Marta",
year = "2024",
month = may,
day = "14",
doi = "10.4337/9781800375536.00011",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781800375529",
series = "Handbooks of Research Methods in Law",
publisher = "Edward Elgar Publishing",
pages = "73–86",
editor = "Xandra Kramer and {Carballo Pi-eiro}, Laura",
booktitle = "Research Methods in Private Internaitonal Law",
address = "United Kingdom",
}