Sentence examples for enforceable norms from inspiring English sources

"International society" theorists, or the "English school," argue that although there is no central overriding authority above sovereign states, their relations are not wholly lawless or devoid of authoritative and enforceable norms and rules for conduct.

One of our favorite examples of how enforceable norms stop arms races comes from American professional hockey.

Relatedly and significantly, there is an absence of universal and enforceable guiding norms that can facilitate an internationally collaborative "harmonizing global science" (Leshner and Turekian 2009) and responsible research conduct.

That a life shaped by cross-cultural friendships and deep understanding of various cultures is superior to a life deeply immersed into one single culture is perhaps a worthy personal ethical ideal, but it cannot be the justification of an enforceable public norm.

He said the First Congress, "which reflected the understanding of the framing generation and included some of the framers, assumed that federal courts could properly identify some international norms as enforceable" under the law it wrote.

Such regulations and policies are therefore likely to withstand scrutiny and remain enforceable as widely accepted norms.

Unlike in Iran, where wearing a head scarf is legally mandated and enforced by special religious police, the Islamist view in most other Muslim countries is that the head scarf is one way of implementing the religious duty to dress modestly — a desirable social norm, not an enforceable legal rule.

Responding to Joseph Raz, Edmundson, and Lamonde, inter alia, Ekow Yankah defends the traditional view connecting law and coercion, contending that "Legal norms must be ultimately enforceable by coercion to be included in the core concept of the law" (Yankah 2008, 1198).

The experimental results suggest that individuals do not seem to follow entirely the conventional economic prediction of a minimizer of expected costs of regulations against the benefits from over extracting the resource, and that humans can develop norms based on non-enforceable rules of cooperation.

Additionally, codes guiding professional conduct may effectively serve as norms of standards recognizable and enforceable by law, acting as the foundation of legal obligations and decisions [ 16].

A ratifying country does not necessarily agree to make the human rights norm "self-executing"—that is, directly enforceable in domestic courts.