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Global Health Law: Between Hard and Soft Law

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
AbstractThe field of global health law encompasses both “hard” law treaties and “soft” law policies that shape global health norms. Transitioning from “international health law” to “global health law and policy,” global health policymakers have increasingly looked to soft law instruments to address public health needs in a rapidly globalizing world ...
Benjamin Mason Meier, Alexandra Finch, Roojin Habibi   +2 more
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Moore's Law: A Hard Act to Follow

Computer, 2019
Moore's law was the exponential improvement path for semiconductors that fueled the computer revolution and enormous worldwide growth. It's a hard act to follow, but there are three new followon trends that seem just as interesting.
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International Soft Law, Hard Law, and Coherence

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
A rule of law is a norm coupled with coercive power. International soft law is only the norm. There is a vast number of such non-coercive norms, and many recent papers have been preoccupied with their apparent normative tilt toward respect for human rights and democracy.
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“A Hard Law at Best”:

Controversy surrounded the federal tobacco tax during the final quarter of the nineteenth century. Anti-tax sentiment was strongest during the 1880s, as the revival of import revenue following the Panic of 1873 obviated revenue from tobacco taxes.
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Hard Law and Mandate for Justice

Constitutional Commentary, 1989
Part of a symposium on "the Constitution as hard law" at a meeting of the Association of American Law Schools in Miami.
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The Meyer Law for Hardness Tests

Nature, 1950
THE indentation test, made by forcing an unde-formable ball into the test piece, of which the Brinell test is the most extended form, is governed by an empirical relation between load and diameter, P = a dn, due to Meyer.
EMILIO JIMENO, JOSE TERRAZA
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Standards and Statutes: ‘Soft’ Law and ‘Hard’ Law

2014
Standards have been widely applied successfully in various areas, especially with regard with information technology. After a brief look at the process for setting standards, we will review the intellectual property and competition law issues as they regard these standards.
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Family law in hard times

Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 2011
This special issue was originally designed to give an accessible account of recent research findings and comment in family law to facilitate informed discussion of the final report of the Family Ju...
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A hardness law for inelastic deformation

International Journal of Engineering Science, 1978
Abstract Certain formulations of elastic-viscoplastic constitutive equations lead to inelastic deformations being governed by a functional relation between the plastic deformation rate and the stress. A parameter that appears in certain forms of this equation can be interpreted as an internal variable measure of the overall resistance of the material
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Soft and hard law in times of crisis: budget monitoring, migration and cybersecurity

West European Politics, 2021
Sabine Saurugger, Fabien Terpan
exaly