2021
DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2021.1932478
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Transnational city networks and their contributions to norm-generation in international law: the case of migration

Abstract: Local governments and transnational city networks ('TCNs') have been increasingly engaging with norm-generation in the traditionally state-centric international law and migration governance. We identified two modes of this engagement: participation in mainstream state-centric processes, and normgeneration within their own networks. Through four examples, his article identifies four functions of this jurisgenerative activity. Theexternal function is bringing local interests and expertise to influence internatio… Show more

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“…In the field of international law, UN bodies have recognised increasingly local authorities as duty bearers, stipulating their responsibilities and stimulating them to accept these duties within a range of reports and processes (UN 2015, Council of Europe 2019). Second, and perhaps more interestingly, urban actors have also become more and more central to the advocacy, contestation and negotiations around existing and new human rights norms, often developing their own collective normative understandings on (specific) human rights and advocating for their acceptance in international law and global governance , 2021a, Durmuş and Oomen 2021.…”
Section: Urbanising Human Rightsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the field of international law, UN bodies have recognised increasingly local authorities as duty bearers, stipulating their responsibilities and stimulating them to accept these duties within a range of reports and processes (UN 2015, Council of Europe 2019). Second, and perhaps more interestingly, urban actors have also become more and more central to the advocacy, contestation and negotiations around existing and new human rights norms, often developing their own collective normative understandings on (specific) human rights and advocating for their acceptance in international law and global governance , 2021a, Durmuş and Oomen 2021.…”
Section: Urbanising Human Rightsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such networks bring local interests and expertise together in order to influence normative developments at international level. 897 Together, cities formulate shared practices, create non-binding standards, work to influence multilateral agendas, and mirror state-based international law through their language, structures, and agreements. 898 Soft law is not only employed to assert the international role of cities, but also to address the challenges of technological innovation.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%