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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

Best Practices

Hollin Dickerson

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
October 2010

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 14 January 2025

Subject(s):
International labour law — Children, rights — Freedom from slavery or forced labour — Corporations — Corruption — Sustainable development — International minimum standard — International watercourses — Marine environment, protection — Soft law — Codification

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 The term ‘best practices’ refers to a soft law method of addressing social, economic, and environmental challenges by providing exemplary models for future action. They are the activities that have been shown, over time, to be the most effective. Best practices are used to establish standards by operating through horizontal co-operation rather than top-down direction: in a traditional best-practices regime, the regulated entity itself—whether it be public or private—devises a set of practices that it promises to adhere to voluntarily.2 Although traditionally...
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