Besøksadresse
Domus Juridica, 6. etasje (kart)
Kristian Augusts gate 17
0164
OSLO
In this seminar Geir Ulfstein presents a draft article where he argues that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) should be seen as a constitutionalized, rather than a constitutional court for Europe.
In this seminar Postdoctoral Fellow Matthew William Saul will present his paper addressing how the processes of national parliaments feature in the European Court of Human Rights' (ECtHR's) practice of affording states a margin of appreciation.
By Stian Oby Johansen, PhD Fellow, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo
In this MultiRights Seminar Morten Ruud will talk about the reform process that is currently underway in the follow-up of the Brighton Declaration of 2012. He will focus on the enforcement system under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), its challenges and need for reform.
On 18 December 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union found the Draft Agreement on the European Union's Accession to the ECHR to be incompatible with EU Law. In this seminar Stian Øby Johansen provides an analysis of the judgment and its consequences.
Master thesis by Elise Gedde Metz on European Court of Human Rights and Norwegian Supreme Court cases on what is considered to be sufficient reasoning in jury cases. Read the thesis.
What is the impact of international courts on domestic political and legal systems? This question and more are explored at an upcoming workshop organised by PluriCourts Coordinator Marlene Wind.
Edited volume by PluriCourts coordinator Siri Gloppen and Malcolm Langford.
On 27 October PluriCouts organized a memorial seminar in honour of the first, and so far only, Norwegian President of the European Court of Human Rights. Tore Schei and Paul Mahoney were two of the distinguished speakers at the seminar. You can read their contributions here.
The Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts) and PluriCourts are hosting a high-level summer school for PhD students working on international law and with a special interest in interdisciplinary studies of international law and its social and political context.
We particularly welcome students and scholars who are writing up a PhD thesis that involves an interdisciplinary study of one or more international courts.
What motivates states to ratify international human rights treaties remains an unanswered question in political science. In this seminar Hubert Smekal and Janovský Jozef provide for a new systematic examination of the commitment practices in two post-communist countries: the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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.
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.