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Introductory observations and approach -- International environmental regimes and their treaties -- International climate regime -- Effectiveness of international environmental regimes and 'creative legal engineering' -- International regimes as normative systems -- Methodology for determining the norms, sources and underlying theories of international law in the international climate regime -- Sources of legal norms in the international climate regime and the negotiations leading up to and at the Copenhagen conference -- Sources of legal norms in the international climate regime and Compliance Committee methods of interpretation -- Increasing robustness of the international climate regime as a system of norms -- Conclusions.

Drawing specifically on the international climate regime, Simone Schiele examines international environmental regimes from a legal perspective and analyses a core feature of international regimes - their ability to evolve over time. In particular, she develops a theoretical framework based on general international law which allows for a thorough examination of the understanding of international law and the options for law-creation in international environmental regimes. The analysis therefore provides both a coherent understanding of the international climate regime and a starting point for further research in other regimes.