@article{Endres:301636,
      recid = {301636},
      author = {Endres, Dorothea},
      title = {Conceptualizing legal change as ‘norm-knitting’ through  the example of the environmental human right},
      address = {2023},
      number = {ARTICLE},
      abstract = {Understanding law as a continuous process with circular  and interacting phases of selection, construction, and  reception makes it possible to account for the variety of  actors and resources implicated in the process of  incrementally changing a norm of international law. This  process is visualized through an analogy to knitting. One  can start the knitting project with one needle, but to  actually construct anything, more than one needle is  necessary: at least two actors need to collaborate and  build upon each other’s work. If those two actors neatly  agree upon the pattern to be knitted, the resulting product  may be uniform and dense, able to cover all situations it  is intended for. However, it is not that easy to knit in  exactly the same pace and pattern. The constructed law may  not fit perfectly all situations it is intended for,  because the different actors may have had different  patterns in their head. Also, sometimes, the wool is held  too tightly, and the net becomes too dense; sometimes the  wool is held too loosely, and the net will have holes. With  this visualization in mind, we can think of legal changes  as continuously intermingling and building upon each other:  international law is generally knitted with different  colours of wool, each colour representing a different  normative resource. Thus, ‘norm knitting’ provides for an  analytical tool that makes it possible to demonstrate the  variety in ‘successful’ change of a given norm in  international law in response to specific challenges which  the actors face.},
      url = {http://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/301636},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156523000353},
}