Research projects
This project addresses the exercise of authority by international institutions: its features, its causes and effects, and its implications.
Sevda Clark's PhD project assesses principal legal issues that confront child litigants when they bring claims in their own name before judicial or quasi-judicial bodies.
Joanna Nicholson's PhD project focuses on the principle of combatant immunity or the combatant privilege.
The project addresses constitutional and institutional issues in the political theory of human rights and asks questions like: How could we resolve the value conflict between human rights and democracy, and at what costs? And: Should and could international human rights institutions be reformed in order to achieve a more desirable institutional design?
The project aims to co-ordinate and contribute work on detection technologies, counter-terrorism, ethics and human rights.
Isabel Mota Borges' PhD project aims to assess to which extent environmental displaced people are protected by existing international human rights guarantees, and who is responsible for providing legal protection.
This project asks what is the nature of the extraterritorial human rights obligations of States under international law.
The purpose of this research project is to improve our understanding of the interrelationships between human rights-based development and poverty reduction, on the one hand, and the forms and uses of power in developing societies on the other.
It has a particular focus on how the empowerment of community organisations may lead to the securing of human rights and poverty reduction.
The partner institutions in the Nordic Network in Human Rights Research are working towards increased research cooperation and greater insight in methodological issues in human rights research. The Network builds on a long tradition for human rights research in the Nordic countries.
Sigrid Redse Johansen's PhD project deals with the proportionality balance that should be struck between military necessity on the one hand and civilian life and property on the other hand.
The starting point for Zhou Yong's PhD project is the right of self-determination.
This project studies the Latin American experiences of transitional justice occuring since the democratic transitions of the 1980s.
The project aims to achieve insight into whether human rights conventions are normatively legitimate, especially on the basis of states' assessments of the costs and benefits of ratifying human rights conventions at the time of ratification, and in light of the effects of these conventions.
This project explores the nexus between poverty and human rights from an international legal perspective.
This project explores the Nordic ambivalence towards human rights. On the one hand, the Nordic countries take pride in promoting human rights abroad. On the other hand, Nordic policymakers are increasingly opposed to the expansion of international human rights mechanisms. This paradox deserves more comprehensive analysis, taking both the domestic and international domains of policy and law into account.
This thesis asks an old question in a contemporary context. Is the adjudication of social rights legitimate and under what conditions?
Edited by Malcolm Langford and Anna Russell
Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2012
The aim of this project is to investigate the legitimacy of land claims by both indigenous and non-indigenous communities in Latin America, and to explore the means that these communities can adopt to vindicate justified land claims.