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Andreas Føllesdal is participating in a debat on the principles and the spirit of the Norwegian Constitution in Aftenposten.

Post doctoral MultiRights Fellow Reidar Maliks will teach a course in international political philosophy with emphasis in human rights (Fordypning - Etikk og praktisk filosofi) beginning on 28 January.

The Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo announces two PhD fellowships in law, inter alia for affiliation with PluriCourts.

The research project MultiRights has released an invitation for applications for Resident Research Fellowships at the Summer Institute in Oslo, June 9-22, 2013. Deadline for applications is November 30, 2012.

Helen Keller and Geir Ulfstein (Head of the MultiRights' Legal Research Team)  have edited the first volume of the prestigious Cambridge University Press new series Studies on Human Rights Conventions.

The Burgen Scholarships is awarded by the Academy of Europe - Academia Europaea- to early stage scholars at the post-doctoral level who show great potential in their respective fields.

Føllesdal and Hix' article "Whay there is a Democratic Deficit in the EU: A Response to Majone and Moravcsik" was chosen by the readership of Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS)

The MultiRights project is offering two new positions for Postdoctoral research fellows with a duration of 3 years each. One of the positions is in Philosophy/Political Theory, and the other one is in Law.  

- Prosjektet skal undersøke legitimiteten til menneskerettighetsdomstoler og liknende organer på flere nivåer - særlig nasjonalt, europeisk og internasjonalt, sier Andreas Føllesdal.

SMR-professoren leder prosjektet The Legitimacy of Multi-level Human Rights Judiciary i nært faglig samarbeid med professor Geir Ulfstein. Prosjektet har mottatt nærmere 2,5 millioner euro i Advanced Grant fra Det europeiske forskningsrådet.