November 3-5 2014 a course in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Litigation is given at Harvard University (FXB Center for Health and Human Rights in collaboration with the Global School on Socioeconomic Rights). Sexual and reproductive rights (SRR) are increasingly politicized and morally charged. Activism involves strong emotions and sparks reactions among both progressive […]
The law plays an important role in the administration of the modern welfare state.Henriette Sinding Aasen, Professor of Law at the University of Bergen, explains the effects juridification has on modern citizenship in a blogpost in Elgar Blog
Advisory Board
Lecturer on Law and Director, Global Health and Rights Project, Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School, and Adjunct Senior Lecturer on Health Policy and Management, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
CMI-Gloppen-Bernt-060514 from Knut Tande on Vimeo.
What impact do international and national regulations have upon vulnerable groups in terms of inclusion, exclusion and social citizenship? A new book coming soon explores the nature and effects of current juridification processes are hotly debated amongst social scientists and legal scholars. Bringing empirical analysis and multidisciplinary, comparative perspectives to the previously fragmented and largely theoretical debate on juridification in […]
Elin Skaar (2011)
New York: Palgrave MacMillan. 297 p.
In many Latin American countries, former military officers are now facing charges of torture, murder, forced disappearance, and genocide committed under the dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s. Why is this happening now, years after the transition to democracy? And why are courts in some countries leading the way? This comparative analysis, focusing on the […]
Elin Skaar and Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm (2013)
in Nordic Journal of Human Rights vol. 31 no. 2 pp. 127-148
The transitional justice (TJ) field has gone through phases in which the role of actors and their environments – or structure and agency, more broadly viewed – have been alternatively emphasised. This article privileges agency as the focal point of analysis. The main task is to conceptualise ways in which actors promote, or obstruct, transitional […]
Elin Skaar, Åse Johanne Roti Dahl (2014)
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 11 no. 5) 4 p.
This brief assesses the impact of transitional justice mechanisms on peace and democracy. Based on four case studies from Africa and Latin America, it argues that the expected positive effects of transitional justice may be too high. Transitional justice processes are complex and dynamic and may change substantially over time. The distinction between short term […]
Addressing human rights violations of the past through transitional justice (TJ) mechanisms is a persistent demand in many countries emerging from violent conflict, and has a central place in the evolving UN policy framework for peacebuilding. Yet mechanisms such as trials and truth commissions are sometimes aborted or deferred through compromises, often have unclear impact, […]
The main aim of this project is to develop a comprehensive analytical framework for comparative analysis to explore how the choice of mechanisms for handling gross human rights violations (truth commissions, trials, amnesties, and reparations) may affect peace building. A twofold strategy will be used to develop the framework: First, by collecting and systematically examining […]
Course on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Litigation
