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Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Exploring the Relationship between Hard and Soft International Law and Social Change -- I Introduction -- II Overview of the Book -- Chapter 2 The Softening of Hard Law and the Hardening of Soft Law: an Extended Synopsis -- i Introduction -- ii Soft Power -- A The Phases of 'soft' Law Regimes -- B The Footfalls of Anthropocene -- iii Towards a Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Promoting Social Change through Treaties and Customary International Law: the Experience of the Inter-American Human Rights System -- i Introduction -- ii The Inter-American System -- A Structure -- B Historical Developments -- iii Illustrative Cases in the Inter-American System -- A Velásquez Rodriguez v. Honduras (1988) -- 1 Brief Factual Overview -- 2 Impact on Social Change -- B Barrios Altos v. Peru (2001) -- 1 Brief Factual Overview -- 2 Impact on Social Change -- C Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community v. Nicaragua (2001) -- 1 Brief Factual Overview -- 2 Impact on Social Change -- D General Usón-Ramírez v. Venezuela -- 1 Brief Factual Overview -- 2 Impact on Social Change -- iv Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Children's Rights: Social Change through the Application of Hard and Soft International Law -- i Introduction -- ii Overview of International Law Pertaining to the Child -- A Convention on the Rights of the Child -- 1 History of Children's Rights and the Making of the Convention on the Rights of the Child -- 2 Ratification and Legal Status -- B Other Binding Treaties That Directly Affect Children's Rights -- C Regional Charter on Children's Rights -- D Optional Protocols to the crc -- E Soft Law Related to the crc -- 1 Rules and Guidelines -- 2 Resolutions -- 3 General Comments of the crc Committee.

International law and the operations of the international financial institutions / Daniel D. Bradlow -- International financial institutions and international law : a third world perspective / B.S. Chimni -- Responsibility of international financial institutions under international law / Eisuke Suzuki -- International financial institutions before national courts / August Reinisch and Jakob Wurm -- Rethinking international financial institution immunity / Steven Herz -- Regulation and resource dependency : the legal and political aspects of structural adjustment programmes / Celine Tan -- International law and public participation in policy-making at the international financial institutions / David B. Hunter -- International financial institutions and human rights : select perspectives on legal obligations / Siobhán McInerney-Lankford -- Indigenous peoples and international financial institutions / Fergus MacKay -- Worker rights and the international financial institutions / Jerome I. Levinson -- International environmental law, the world bank, and international financial institutions / Charles E. Di Leva -- Conclusion : the future of international law and international financial institutions / Daniel D. Bradlow an David B. Hunter