[Retracted] Analysis of the Effectiveness of International Law in Global Environmental Relations from the Perspective of International Institutional Theory

Table 2

Classification of legal principles.

Classification criteria	Specific type
Content regulation	Authorized rules: A rule that stipulates that people have the right to do certain acts or not to do certain acts.
	Obligatory rules: Stipulate people’s legal obligations, that is, the rules about what people should or should not do.
	Right meaning compound rule: Legal rules with the nature of granting rights and setting obligations.
The scope or degree of regulation and limitation of people’s behavior	Mandatory rule: refers to the rule that the content provisions are mandatory and must be applied regardless of people’s wishes.
	Arbitrary rules: Arbitrary rules are legal rules that allow people to choose or negotiate the contents of rights and obligations in legal relations within a certain range.
Degree of certainty of content	Certainty rule: it refers to the legal rule whose content has been clearly confirmed without invoking or referring to other rules to determine its content.
	Mandatory rules: Refer to the legal rules whose contents have not been determined, but only provide some general instructions, which shall be determined by the corresponding state organs through corresponding channels or procedures.
	Applicable rules: Refers to the rules that the content itself does not specify the specific behavior mode of people, and can be invoked or referred to other corresponding contents.
Functions of legal rules	Adjustment rule: a rule that adjusts an existing behavior.
	Constitutive rules: Rules that organize people to act according to the behavior stipulated in the rules.