HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
Public policy department
COURSE PROGRAMME
«Soft Law and Regulatory Governance»
Master program «Political analysis and public policy»
2nd year 2012 - 2013
Yuri Fogelson
Svetlana Chekhovskaya
Moscow 2012
2
CURRICULUM
Theme 1.INTRODUCTION
Class 1. (13.09.2012) Introductory lecture (2 hours).
Short course introduction, problems of the discipline.Issuing texts for
short annotations and glossaries preparation by students.Methodology of
studying, literature and glossaries elaboration. Distribution of topics for
reports. Methodology of reporting and preparation for seminars. Methodology
of students’ activity evaluation and final grading.
Class 2.(20.09.2012) Seminar: work with texts and
glossaries (4 hours).
Discussion of glossaries students prepared. Elaboration of common
glossary for its further complementation during other reports preparation and
discussion.
Class 3.(27.09.2012) Seminar: work with texts and
glossaries (4 hours).
Short students’ reports on their annotations (5 min) and discussion
Theme2.SOFT LAW: ORIGINS OF THE TERM
Class 4.(04.10.2012) Lecture (4 hours).
Soft law and its communicative function. Western political and legal
discourse from Papal revolution (XI) to the end of 70s of the ХХ century:
natural law theories, sociological theories of law, legal positivism. Westphalia
system and sovereignty .Communicative attributes of law. Social
responsibility. Comparison of soft law, hard law and moral obligations. Soft
law as a type of law. Soft law and legal certainty.
Class 5.(11.10.2012) Seminar: students’ reports (4
hours)
1.
2.
3.
4.
Dialectical method of the Middle age lawyers
Conception of rationalistic natural law
Review of sociological law theories
Main principles of the Peace of Westphalia. Westphalia system
Class 6.(18.10.2012) Seminar: students’ reports (4
hours)
3
5.
6.
7.
8.
Jean Bodin and his concept of sovereignty
Gerber Hart’s theory and debates with Lon Fuller
Rational legal discourse in works of Alexy and Dworkin
Autopoietic law theories
Theme3.Instruments and methods of soft
law regulations
Class 7. (25.10.2012) Lecture (4 hours).
EU soft law instruments. Other instruments of soft law: rules of organizations,
self-regulation, standards, codes of best practice, resolutions, declarations, etc.
Open method of coordination: its implementation in EU and other
institutes/organizations based on soft law. Reputation responsibility. Threat of
“hardening”. Risks of soft law instruments.
END OF THE FIRST MODULE
Class 8 (08.11.2012).Seminar: students’ reports (4
hours)
9. Structure of the EU law and necessity in soft law
10. «Naming and shaming» method and method of open coordination
11.Reputation responsibility in В2С relations
12.Reputation responsibility in В2В relations
Class 10 (15.11.2012).Seminar: students’ reports (4
hours)
13. Self-regulation as soft law instrument
14.Practice analysis ofЕCHR Guiding principles implementation
15.Practice analysis of ECJ soft law methods
16. Review of resolutions and declarations used as soft law
Theme4.Soft law regulation cases
Class 10.(22.11.2012) Seminar: students’ reports (4
hours)
17. Soft law of OSCE
18. Soft law of WTO
19.Soft law in corporate relations
20. Cases of soft law regulations on national level
Class 11. (29.11.2011) Seminar: students’ reports (4
hours)
21.Cases of soft law regulations on national level
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22.Standards of financial systems stability
23.Lexmercatoria as soft law
24. Global contract as soft law
Examination
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to
classes 1 and 2.
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17.M. Fredriksson, P. Blomqvist, U. Winblad Conflict and
Compliance in Swedish Health Care Governance: Soft Law in the
„Shadow of Hierarchy“, Scandinavian Political Studies, 2011
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Governance: A Legal Perspective // New Gov New Model of
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Harvard Law Review 71 (4): 593–629.
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Professor Hart. Harvard Law Review 71 (4): 630–672.