Human Rights in Child Protection
Asgeir Falck-Eriksen and Elisabeth Backe-Hansen (2018)
Child rights unit has released a new book Human Rights in Child Protection (open access), which is related to the project Child Protection and Human Rights – Making professional judgements. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a legal document with global reach and thus has a cosmopolitan imprint. The CRC […]
Child’s Best Interest Principle
Marit Skivenes and Line Marie Sørsdal (2018)
The Child’s Best Interest Principle across Child Protection Jurisdictions in Asgeir Falch-Eriksen and Elisabeth Backe-Hansen, Human Rights in Child Protection – Implications for Professional Practice and Policy (PP. 59-88). The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has almost universal, global support, and several countries have made it national law. The CRC gives children strong rights, and a […]
Recognized but not Protected? The Human Right to Safe Drinking Water & Protection of Foreign Investments in Water Utilities
Sara Ekblom (2018)
Sara Ekblom has written her master’s thesis in law (UiB) on the right to water in investor-State arbitration. The thesis asks how investor-State Tribunals addresses the relationship between the Argentine Governments’ international duty to realize the human right to affordable drinking water through regulation and policy, and its international duty to accord foreign investors in […]
Ruben Berge Mathisen (2018)
Ruben Berge Mathisen, a research assistant at the Centre on Law and Social Transformation, submitted his master’s thesis on homophobia in Africa in June 2018. Master’s thesis PDF
Assessing Judicial Empowerment
Thomas Keck (2018)
Keck, Thomas M "Assessing Judicial Empowerment" in Laws 7:2 (2018) p. 1-17
Drawing on an ongoing international data collection effort, our affiliate Thomas Keck examines the free expression jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Canada and the European Court of Human Rights in an effort to assess the political beneficiaries of judicial empowerment. Free expression is a universally recognized fundamental right, and it is a right that […]
Regulating Corruption in International Markets: Why Governments Introduce Laws They Fail to Enforce
Tina Søreide (2018)
Søreide, Tina, Regulating Corruption in International Markets: Why Governments Introduce Laws They Fail to Enforce (December 12, 2017). The Oxford Handbook on International Economic Governance and Market Regulation. Edited by Eric Brousseau, Jean Michel Glachant and Jérôme Sgard. 2018 Forthcoming. Markets and societies need protection against corruption. Though governments have introduced tougher regulations against the […]
Corruption in state administration
Tina Søreide and Susan Rose-Ackerman (2018)
Søreide, Tina and Rose-Ackerman, Susan. (2018). Corruption in state administration. In J. Arlen & N. Z. Paige, Research handbook on corporate crime and financial misdealing (pp. 195-217). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Corruption can arise in any bureaucracy that has the authority to allocate benefits and impose costs. Program designers need to acknowledge and control such risks, […]
Hvem har ansvaret for å sikre folk vann?
Mathilde Thorsen (2018)
Bergens Tidende Debatt 19.07.2018
Mathilde Thorsen has written about water rights and the ongoing water crisis in India in Bergens Tidende. The text ask questions regarding who is in charge of securing people water, and call for global cooperation and respect of the human right to water. You can read the full text in Norwegian below or on Bergens […]
Mismanagement of Land in Meghalaya
Kavita Navlani Søreide (2018)
Economic & Political Weekly Vol. 53, Issue No. 29, 21 Jul, 2018
Kavita Navlani Søreide has a new publication regarding land rights in Meghalaya in the newest volume of Economic & Political weekly. Mismanagement of Land in Meghalaya The recent clashes in Shillong between the indigenous Khasis and the minority Dalit Sikh community, cannot be dismissed as merely communal identity politics at play. The roots of the […]
Olman Rodríguez Loaiza, Sigrid Morales, Ole Frithjof Norheim, and Bruce M. Wilson (2018)
Health and Human Rights
Abstract In response to the incremental creation of an expansive constitutional right to health in Costa Rica, the country’s rights-friendly constitutional chamber of the Supreme Court (known as the Sala IV) unleashed a flood of litigation for medications, treatments, and other health care issues. This development was met by widespread criticism from within the health […]