Hard choices soft law voluntary standards in global trade environment and social governance by john j kirton and michael j trebilcock sebastien jodoin associate research fellow centre for international sustainable development law search for more papers by this author sebastien jodoin associate research fellow centre for international sustainable development law search for more . Hard choices soft law voluntary standards in global trade environment and social governance by john j kirton and michael j trebilcock sebastien jodoin associate research fellow centre for international sustainable development law. An important read for academics and policy makers alike hard choices soft law asserts that voluntary standards or soft law are an important supplement to international law in a number of areas this key work firstly outlines the approach taken to combining soft and hard law and trade environment and labour values in the wto and nafta and in the prospective millennium round then using the forestry sector a realm where formal international law remains largely absent the book . Hard choices soft law voluntary standards in global trade environment and social governance john j kirton and michael trebilcock eds global environmental governance series aldergate ashgate publishing limited 2004 pp xviii 372 this book sheds considerable light on the new forms of soft law governance voluntary standards and . An important read for academics and policy makers alike hard choices soft law asserts that voluntary standards or soft law are an important supplement to international law in a number of areas this key work firstly outlines the approach taken to combining soft and hard law and trade environment and labour values in the wto and nafta and in the prospective millennium round then using the forestry sector a realm where formal international law remains largely absent the book