Nettsider med emneord «Human rights» - Side 13

In this seminar Johan Karlsson Schaffer offers a different political-practical conception of human rights. He assumes that human rights are chiefly enforced and implemented through domestic, rather than international political action. This is because they empower individuals and groups to challenge governmental authority.

In this seminar Claudio Corradetti will contribute to the debate on the fragmentation of international Law and further his ideas on cosmopolitanism through courts.

This conference will address key aspects of the possible swing-back effect from judicial dialogues to the international legal order.

By Laura Letourneau-Tremblay, Research Assistant, PluriCourts

This colloquium will bring together judges and academics to discuss lessons learned concerning the role of the judiciary in protecting constitutionalism and human rights.

How and why do domestic actors use international Courts to advance or restrain sexual and reproductive rights? How can we study the phenomenon of legal mobilisation on a global, regional and national basis? These and other questions will be discussed at a two-day workshop in Boston.

PluriCourts, together with University of Copenhagen Centre of Excellence for International Courts – iCourts, is organizing a combined workshop and PhD course on the Legitimacy of International Courts and Tribunals.

PluriCourts Coordinator Marlene Wind organises a two-day Conference at the Danish centre of excellence iCourts in Copenhagen.

In this article, PluriCourts Director Andreas Føllesdal discusses what the foundations for a shared European Identity should be.

At the seminar  Andreas Føllesdal presents his paper looking at how elements of the ECtHR and its practices actually contribute to ‘transitional justice’ – helping to move states toward more stable and just legal and political order.

Matthew Saul will present a paper that addresses how the processes of national parliaments feature in the practice of the ECtHR.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Norwegian politicians and civil servants regarded human rights as norms that could form the basis of inter-state legal obligations, but not as rules that were to be enforced by a supranational court.

To honor the 20^th anniversary of the establishment of the Center for International and Comparative Law (CICL), the University of Baltimore School of Law, in conjunction with PluriCourts, will bring together renowned scholars for a symposium on legitimacy and international courts.

In this new book in the Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law series, MultiRights postdoctoral fellow Matthew Saul examines the international legal framework which regulates popular governance of post-conflict reconstruction.

In this article, PluriCourts director Andreas Føllesdal  discusses different conceptions of subsidiarity. He argues that instead of one principle of subsidiarity, there are different conceptions with varying institutional implications.

By Stian Oby Johansen, PhD Fellow, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo

By Stian Oby Johansen, PhD Fellow, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo

Visiting professor James Nickel (University of Miami) will present his recent research on human rights during emergencies at this PluriCourts lunch.

The Council of Europe published all speeches of the MultiRights annual conference 2014. The Council's intergovernmental group of reform will use these proceedings in its future work on the future of the human rights court.

Geir Ulfstein discusses whether the European Court of Human Rights acts – and should act – as part of a constitutionalized legal system.

MultiRights Postdoc Claudio Corradetti proposes an interpretation of Kant's view on cosmopolitanism: It is both legal and transitional, that is, as Kant defined it a view of cosmopolitanism as a part of Public Right.

In collaboration with ESIL under the ESIL Lectures, Professor Geir Ulfstein will interview Helen Keller on her reflections as a Judge at the European Court of Human Rights.