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Publications
Personal Identity Rights Development and Recent Adoption Cases at the European Court of Human Rights
November 28, 2024
Blogpost by: Professor Jill Marshall, Professor of Law, Royal Holloway, University of London BLOG: We may all think we know what ‘personal identity’ means, but what …
Opening the discussion about adoption from care in Finland – wrong place, right time?
November 28, 2024
Blogpost by: Petra Järvinen, Doctoral Researcher, Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, and visiting scholar at the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA) in April …
Domesticating human rights: restricting child marriage in Spain
November 21, 2024
Kerstin Hamann is University Pegasus Professor, Associate Dean University of Central Florida and Global Fellow for LawTransform. Her research focuses on the political role of …
Young Brazilian Wives: Child Marriage, Girls’ Marginalisation, and Agency
November 5, 2024
An article by Larissa Cristina Margarido, a PhD candidate in Law and Development at FGV Sao Paulo Law School (Brazil), and a LawTransform fellow. Larissa …
Building child rights-based anti-racist competencies in the Finnish social field
May 7, 2024
BLOG: Finland is becoming increasingly diverse. But is the Finnish social field equipped to meet children of diverse backgrounds? Blogpost by: Laura Holmi, …
Projects
Protecting child rights and public safety
October 18, 2024
Project Team: Linda Gröning, Marit Skivenes, Ingun Fornes, Siri Gloppen Timeframe: 2025 – 2030 The PROTECT project will study how to protect children’s rights while …
Cosmopolitan Turn and Democratic Sentiments
January 10, 2020
The CONSENT-project will study the children’s rights situation in Norway and Romania. All children possess rights as declared in the United Nations Convention on the …
Legitimacy Challenges
January 8, 2020
The premise for the LEGITIMACY project is that the mobilization against the Norwegian child protection system is but one piece in a larger picture about …
Discretion and the Child’s Best Interest in Child Protection
November 3, 2017
The research project “Discretion and the child’s best interests in child protection” aims to unlock the black box of discretionary decision-making in child protection cases …
The Acceptability of Child Protection Interventions: A Cross-Country Analysis
November 3, 2017
This project examines the population´s values and interpretations of the child´s best interest’s principle within different societies, as well at the courts justifications of their …
News
New Project on Children’s Rights and Crime Prevention
October 18, 2024
Linda Gröning from the Faculty of Law (PI) and Marit Skivenes (co-PI) from the Department of Government and Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA) …
Funding for new project: PARTICIPATION: Are Children Heard in the Child Protection System?
December 21, 2020
NEW PROJECT: Marit Skivenes, LawTransform’s Child Rights’s unit research leader, has received funding to conduct a groundbreaking study of children’s participation. – Lack of participation …
Events
Lost in Implementation: Lawless Intimacy & Legal Inconsistencies in Malaysian Islamic Law
October 31, 2024
Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif is a social anthropologist and Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bergen. She studied Anthropology and French at the …
Children and Rights to Identity at the European Court of Human Rights
October 3, 2024
In her presentation, Jill Marshall examines how human rights law, particularly the European Court of Human Rights, has developed the right to personal identity under …