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Kristian Augusts gate 17
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By Phillipe Sands, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals at University College London
Special issue edited by Postdoctoral Fellow Claudio Corradetti and Basak Cali (Koç University), to appear in the German Law Journal.
In this International Law Lunch, Associate Professor Gentian Zyberi will be giving a presentation on this topic, based on work-in-progress to take the form of an article.
In this MultiRights seminar, Postdoctoral Fellow Claudio Corradetti will present his article that is part of a special issue on "Legal Cosmopolitanism and the Courts", edited by Corradetti, in Transnational Legal Theory.
This book edited by Professor Mads Andenæs and Dr Eirik Bjørge was published by Cambridge University Press (CUP, 2015). It is the first book of the PluriCourts series on International Courts and Tribunals with CUP. View the description on the CUP website.
MultiRights Postdoctoral Fellow Matthew Saul presents his ongoing research on the impact of international human rights courts and tribunals on domestic Parliaments.
Book or special issue edited by PluriCourts Directors Geir Ulfstein and Andreas Føllesdal and David Kosar (Masaryk University).
Michael Reiertsen is a Phd research fellow at the Department of Public and International Law, UiO. He is writing a Phd thesis with the working title “The ECHR Article 13 – Past, Present and Future”.
Professor James Nickel (University of Miami) visits PluriCourts on 28 September - 2 October 2015. He is one of five permanent PluriCourts Research Fellows and contributes substantively to the research under the MultiRights project.
After the panel debate on The Refugee Crisis: The European Response at the ESIL Conference, international lawyers initiated an open letter. They condemn the failure to offer protection to people seeking refuge in Europe, and the lack of respect for the human rights of those seeking refuge.
Book edited by Marjan Ajevski. The book was originally published as a special issue of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights, edited when Ajevski was a MultiRights Postdoctoral Fellow. Access the book.
Three guests will contribute to our larger projects this week: Oran Young (University of California), Jeffrey Dunoff (Temple University) and Erik Voeten (Georgetown University).
PluriCourts researcher Malcolm Langford published an article in Development and Change (2015), 46(4), 777-802. Read the article (SSRN).
Eirik Bjørge (Oxford University) will present his forthcoming book (Oxford University Press). He shows that, through their faithful application of the ECHR, domestic courts can - and do - make a positive contribution to the development of the law of the Convention. Mads Andenæs will act as commentator.
This year's Ryssdal seminar focuses on UN Treaty bodies on human rights and their implications to Norwegian law. At the seminar we will look at the treaty bodies' activites from various perspectives, including perspectives from the Norwegian courts, public administration and lawyers.
Master thesis by Research Assistant Tori Loven Kirkebø. She examines the current system regulating state and corporate behavior with regards to human rights. As such it contributes to the debate on a global treaty on business and human rights through an interdisciplinary, human rights approach. Read the paper (SSRN).
During this MultiRights seminar Professor of Philosophy and Law, University of Miami, Jim W. Nickel, will speak about the support and conflict within systems of rights. Jim W. Nickel teaches and writes in human rights law and theory, jurisprudence, and political philosophy. He is the author of "Making Sense of Human Rights"(2nd ed. 2007) and many articles in philosophy and law.
PluriCourts researcher Malcolm Langford published an article in the Oslo Law Review, 2015, Issue 1, 36-85. Read the article
PluriCourts coordinator Cecilia Bailliet edited a special issue in the Nordic Journal of International Law (Volume 84, Issue 2, 2015). Read the issue here.
in this article, PluriCourts director Geir Ulfstein focuses on other international instruments as an argument for dynamic (evolutive) interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Read the article (SSRN).
By Nino Tsereteli, PhD Candidate, MultiRights
"The states parties must have intended that the Convention should serve its purpose of protecting human rights under changing circumstances and developments in societal values", PluriCourts director Geir Ulfstein said at a conference organised by the European Court of Human Rights. Read the text of the presentation (SSRN).
In this MultiRights seminar Professor Janneke Gerards will present her paper "Procedural Review of the European Court of Human Rights - a Typology". The speaker is professor of European Law and head of the department of European and International Law at the Radbound University.
An article by postdoctoral fellow Shakira Bedoya Sanchez and Dr. Markus Virgil Hoehne will be published shortly by Berghahn Books as part of a volume entitled 'Universalism vs. Relativism: Human Rights in Anthropological Perspective'.