Volume 32, 2014

With Guest Editors, Maija Mustaniemi-Laakso and Hans-Otto Sano, this Special Issue on Human Rights-Based Change and the Institutionalisation of Economic and Social Rights seeks to provide insight into how human rights-based approaches have contributed to change. It examines traditional and innovative ways of mainstreaming and institutionalising human right in judicial, bureaucratic and organisational processes in development work. Article are available from Taylor & Francis for download.

Issue 3 explores the use of internally displaced persons; the protection of ownership rights in Norwegian building and planning laws; framing actors in human rights debates; and human rights-based approaches to climate change. Articles are available from Taylor & Francis for download.

This Special Issue, Fragmentation in International Human Rights Law - Beyond Conflict of Law, explores the consequences of institutional fragmentation within international human rights law. Employing a functionalist comparative law methodology, the right to privacy and family life, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and freedom of association are analysed. Articles are available from Taylor & Francis for download.

This Issue of the Nordic Journal features Manfred Nowak's 2013 Torkel Opsahl Memorial Lecture in addition to articles on the impact of UN human rights treaty bodies; the application of human rights to neoclassical economics; and Norway's ratification to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Articles are available from Taylor & Francis for download.