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Introduction / Mariolina Eliantonio, Emilia Korkea-aho and Oana Stefan -- Revisiting soft law: governance, regulation and networks / Imelda Maher -- Types of EU soft law and their national impact / Andreas Hofmann -- 'Whatever-law' and teenage member states?: the national reception of EU soft law and how to study it / Miriam Hartlapp and Emilia Korkea-aho -- 'Verba volant, quoque (soft law) scripta?': an analysis of the legal effects of national soft law implementing EU soft law in France and the UK / Giulia Gentile -- EU soft law in Cyprus: in search of role and value / Napoleon Xanthoulis and Anastasia Karatzia -- The Finnish soft law puzzle: how can a rule-bound parliamentary democracy be reconciled with EU soft law? / Emilia Korkea-aho, Katri Havu, Päivi Leino-Sandberg and Liisa Tarkkila -- No longer small enough to fall through the cracks: a French story of adaptation to the petites sources of EU law / Nathalie Rubio and Oana Stefan -- Soft law in Germany: still opposing dynamics in status and effect / Miriam Hartlapp, Andreas Hofmann and Matthias Knauff -- The approach of Hungarian authorities to soft law: on the road to where? / Petra Lea Láncos -- Judges, public authorities and EU soft law in Italy: how you cannot tell a book by its cover / Jacopo Alberti and Mariolina Eliantonio -- Soft law and guidance in the Netherlands: at odds with legal principles? / Barbara Beijen -- The uneasy reception of EU soft law in the Slovenian legal order / Matej Avbelj and Katarina Vatovec -- In search of symmetry lost: European and Spanish soft law before the Spanish authorities / Luis Arroyo Jiménez and José María Rodríguez de Santiago -- EU soft law in the UK on the eve of Brexit: (not) much ado about nothing? / Mary Dobbs and Oana Stefan -- Three worlds of Chinese soft law / Francis Snyder -- Judicial review of soft law before the European and the national courts: a wind of change blowing from the member states? / Mariolina Eliantonio -- Legal effects and revi