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deformalisation

deformalisation noun: the process of deformalising something.

Noun

deformalisation (plural deformalisations)

  1. The process of deformalising something.
    • A trend towards deformalisation has been observed in international law, characterised as the rejection of formal indicators to define international rules, along with a growing emphasis on informal law-making.2022, Jonathan Verschuuren, Leonie Reins, editors, Research Handbook on Climate Change Mitigation Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 28
    • The international agreement, created by the process of deformalisation, becomes soft law to the extent that the absence of the totality of these eleents marks not non-law, but a different type of international law, which exists in contrast to a type of international law in which all of these...2015, Peter Langford, Roberto Esposito: Law, Community and the Political, Taylor & Francis, page 208

Forms of deformalisation

pluraldeformalisations
alternative USdeformalization

Questions about deformalisation

What does deformalisation mean?
Deformalisation means the process of deformalising something.
What part of speech is deformalisation?
Deformalisation is a noun.
What is the plural of deformalisation?
The plural of deformalisation is deformalisations.

Words near deformalisation in the dictionary

  1. deform
  2. deformabilities
  3. deformability
  4. deformable
  5. deformably
  6. deformalisation
  7. deformalise
  8. deformalised
  9. deformalises
  10. deformalising
  11. deformalization

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