New article by Christopher Michael Faulkner, Joshua Earl Lambert, Bruce M. Wilson, and Matthew Steven Faulkner After years of advocacy and international negotiation, the General Assembly of the United Nations voted to officially recognize a stand-alone human right to water and sanitation on 28 July 2010. Since, academic scholarship has continued to grow in an […]
BLOG: U.S federal law make the parents pay for foster care. The intention is to make foster care shorter – but do the law work according to the intention? [1] Blogpost by Jill Duerr Berrick, Zellerbach Family Foundation Professor at U.C. Berkeley, U.S., and Professor II at the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, […]
New article by LawTransform’s Coordinator Lara Côrtes and Researcher Ana Côrtes The international protection given to the right to water has increased over the last decades, with two United Nations’ resolutions establishing a freestanding right to water in 2010. Several countries have a right to water enshrined in their constitutions, while in other countries, this […]
New article by Audun Løvlie and Marit Skivenes About one third of all referrals to the Norwegian Child Protection System concerns observed violence or fear of violence, including sexual abuse. Moreover, children and young people’s self-reporting indicate that one in five have experienced violence from a parent. In cases of violence, public authorities may […]
New article by LawTransform’s affiliate Vikram Kolmannskog On September 6, 2018, homosexuality was decriminalized in India. It was the result of a rights mobilization that started almost two decades ago. From the start, Indian lesbian, gay, bi, trans (LGBT) activists tried to influence society and the judges directly, not least through contact with other judges […]
New article by LawTransform’s affiliate Jackie Dugard South Africa is an interesting case study on the right to water. It is an upper-middle income country with a history and current reality of extreme racialised inequality, including the water services sphere. It is water scarce, and during 2018, Cape Town was expected to be the first […]
New article by PhD Candidate Hege Stein Helland: By utilising theories of deliberation and rational argumentation, this article critically analyses the Norwegian Supreme Court’s best interest decisions in four judgments on adoption from care. How does the Supreme Court reason their decisions and are the decisions rational? The findings show that the decisions are […]
BLOG: When asked by researchers, most children in long-term foster care or adoptive families want more rather than less contact with some birth family members and former foster carers. How can we prevent these children from having ‘searching’ anxieties and help them maintain a sense of ‘connectedness’? June Thoburn is an […]
Liv Tønnessen, Seniorforsker Chr. Michelsens institutt (CMI) og leder av Center on Law and Social Transformation På veg til Sudan for første gang siden covid-pandemien brøt ut får jeg beskjed om det likevel ikke blir noe av. Det har vært militærkupp og flyplassen i Khartoum er stengt. Det er triste nyheter, men kommer dessverre ikke […]
The role of Autonomous District Councils in the tribal state of Meghalaya The legal-political discourse at the time of drafting of independent India’s Constitution resulted in a unique constitutional arrangement guaranteeing a model of self-government through setting up Autonomous District Councils (ADCs) for some of India’s designated tribal communities. This constitutional modality governing the tribal […]
The Human Right to Water and Sanitation: Using Natural Language Processing to Uncover Patterns in Academic Publishing
