1. Governance Project, Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy, European Union Center, and Law School, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2. Snyder, 'Soft Law and Institutional Practice in the European Community', in S. Martin (ed.),The Construction of Europe(Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994), 198.
3. Some prefer to refer to the OMC as 'soft governance' rather than soft law, to distinguish the OMC from situations in which non-binding forms of guidance are rendered binding by being used to interpret legal obligations, and to indicate that the process has many elements beyond the objectives and guidelines. K. Jacobsson, 'Between Deliberation and Discipline: Soft Governance in EU Employment Policy', in U. Morth (ed.),Soft Law in Governance and Regulation: An Interdisciplinary Analysis(Edward Edgar, forthcoming).
4. European Council (2000) Lisbon Summit 2324 March 2000.