Wright, Amy Conley and Judy Cashmore (2022)
New blogpost by Professor Amy Conley Wright & Professor Judy Cashmore, Research Centre for Children and Families, The University of Sydney. In Australia there is developed a comprehensive set of tools to facilitate and ensure positive, safe and child-centred relationships for children in care and their birth family, that other countries may benefit from. The […]
Cunha, Luciana Gross and Lívia Gonçalves Buzolin (2022)
New publication from researchers affiliated with our partner institution Getulio Vargas Foundation São Paulo School of Law. Our PhD guest researcher Ana Côrtes contributes with the first chapter which addresses MacKinnon and the law as a tool for the emancipation of women. The following chapters address MacKinnon’s sex equality and the evolution of the family […]
In 2018, homosexuality was decriminalized in India. It was the result of a rights mobilization that started almost two decades ago. From the start, LGBT activists tried to influence society and the judges directly, not least through contact with other judges who happened to be gay. This article is a first attempt at understanding the […]
Jill Duerr Berrick, Joseph N. Roscoe, Marit Skivenes (2022)
Journal of Social Policy
New article by Jill Duerr Berrick, Joseph N. Roscoe and Marit Skivenes Professor Marit Skivenes and colleagues at UC Berkeley, USA, examine the normative basis for limiting parents’ freedom by exploring public attitudes about a child’s safety in the context of increasing risk in Norway and California (USA). Access the article here:
Liliia Oprysk (2022)
BLOGPOST by Liliia Oprysk Ukraine has been fighting the hybrid war with Russia since 2014. 1,5 million Ukrainians were forced to leave their homes in the east of Ukraine and in Crimea. For nearly a decade, they cannot return home. Since February 24th, Ukraine has been under heavy Russian military attack from the north, east, south […]
New article by Jill Duerr Berrick, Joseph N. Roscoe and Marit Skivenes Professor Marit Skivenes and colleagues at UC Berkeley, USA, compare citizens’ rights orientations in context of child protection in Norway and California (USA). The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) emphasize the universality of human rights for all children, regardless of political, social, […]
BLOG: Those that challenges state authority – The critics of the welfare state and the child protection system are diverse with a range of motives for their engagement. Blogpost by Yngve Nedrebø (Historian, Chair of Human Rights – Norway). I have always been genuinely concerned with how research ought to be representative, ethical, and critical. […]
Rebecca Schiel, Bruce M. Wilson, Malcolm Langford, Christopher M. Faulkner (2022) British Journal of Politics and International Relation (IF 2.422, Scopus 4.600) Democracies are commonly thought to provide greater levels of public goods than autocracies. Given that many public goods are provided locally, higher levels of local democracy are further thought to result […]
New article by Jackie Dugard Against the backdrop of sustained critique of the South African Constitution, this article undertakes an empirical examination of post-apartheid transformative constitutionalism using the example of mineral rights adjudication. Focusing on a series of emblematic mineral rights cases tackling a range of transformation fault lines and interests, the article explores how […]
Family connections for children in long-term care, guardianship or open adoption
