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Russian Human Rights Lawyers Visit PluriCourts

Published Aug. 30, 2017 12:00 AM

At the initiative of the Norwegian Consulate General in St. Petersburg, a delegation of Russian human rights lawyers visits Oslo. Today, they will meet With human rights researchers from PluriCourts and the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights.

Ester Strømmen on NRK P2

Published Aug. 29, 2017 1:18 PM

Research assistant at PluriCourts, Ester Strømmen, discussed her work on 'Jihadi Brides' on Norwegian National Radio - NRK P2 - Verdibørsen.

Published Aug. 22, 2017 12:00 AM

PluriCourts is happy to welcome Jacqueline McAllister, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Kenyon College, as a Fulbright fellow for the academic year 2017/18. McAllister will join the international criminal law team.

New Fulbright scholar: Jeffrey Kahn

Published Aug. 21, 2017 12:00 AM

PluriCourts welcomes Professor Jeffrey Kahn (Southern Methodist University), as a visiting Fulbright fellow for the 2017/18 academic year.

Published Aug. 4, 2017 9:42 AM

This summer, leading academics and practitioners have debated the relationship between human rights and democracy in Norway in the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv.

Published July 24, 2017 9:25 AM

Approximately 22.5 million people have had to flee their homes due to natural disasters and climate change in 2008-2017. The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Centre of International Law at Belo Horizonte, Brazil, invited Professor Cecilia Bailliet to teach Latin American students about the rights of these displaced persons.

Published June 22, 2017 8:55 AM

After almost six and half years of waiting, Professor Ole Kristian Fauchald has finally received an answer to his compliant on the lack of access to information from the government. The complaint, which has made its way through national and international bodies, points to great weaknesses in the right to information in public processes.

Double Hatting Under New Scrutiny

Published June 8, 2017 10:19 AM

A small group of highly influential “power brokers” regularly combine multiple roles in investment arbitration but the controversial practice – known as “double hatting” – is not widespread within the field, researchers at the University of Oslo have found.

The sign outside the International Criminal Court

Does international criminal justice still matter?

Published May 29, 2017 8:22 AM

In April more than 30 people were killed by a chemical weapon attack in Syria. Despite clear evidence that serious international crimes have been committed, and despite numerous calls to hold those responsible to account, the international criminal justice system seems, at present at least, to be impotent.

New Visiting Scholar at PluriCourts

Published May 22, 2017 2:42 PM

Professor Erik Røsæg will join PluriCourts as a researcher for a year.

Published May 5, 2017 11:26 AM

Cambridge Academic Books has interviewed Professor Bailliet about the recently published book "The Legitimacy of International Criminal Tribunals."

Published May 2, 2017 9:44 AM

Policy brief by research assistant Ester Strømmen on how gendered understandings are effecting judicial processes.

Stairs at the Palais des Droits de l'Homme

PluriCourts – Council of Europe Seminar Informs Intergovernmental Human Rights Discussion

Published Mar. 30, 2017 10:34 AM

PluriCourts and the Council of Europe are co-organizing a brainstorming seminar in Strasbourg. It will form the starting point of an intergovernmental working group discussing which role international law plays for the use of the Convention.

iCourts/PluriCourts Summer School

Published Jan. 13, 2017 9:07 AM

June 26-30, 2017 iCourts (University of Copenhagen) and PluriCourts welcome all interested to a PhD Summer School on "International Law: Courts and Contexts" in Copenhagen.

Published Jan. 10, 2017 3:00 PM

What is Global Governance, where is it going, and what are the greatest challenges?

Published Nov. 24, 2016 11:56 AM

On Wednesday Nov. 2, NUPI stated that Norway will reap substantial benefits from the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiated by USA and EU. However, the report is hampered by poor methodology and low contextual understanding.

Opinion piece by PhD candidate Tarald Laudal Berge and Senior Executive Officer Tori Loven Kirkebø in Klassekampen, Nov. 24.

Photograph of the buildings of the European Court of Human Rights

The ECtHR and Human Rights Theory

Published Nov. 9, 2016 5:28 PM

Postdoctoral Fellow Alain Zysset on the significance of the practice of the ECtHR for the normative theory of human rights.

All heads of delegation lined up for a group photo at COP 21.

The Paris Agreement Enters Into Force

Published Nov. 4, 2016 8:43 AM

Today, Nov. 4, 2016, the Paris Agreement enters into force at a record breaking speed - less than a year after it was adopted.

Inside Guantanamo's barbed wire

Published Oct. 25, 2016 4:36 PM

As a researcher on international courts and tribunals, Kjersti Lohne wanted to see what is going on in the Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay. That turned out to be quite the challenge.

Portrait of Professor Emeritus George Christie

New Fulbright’s Scholar at PluriCourts

Published Oct. 21, 2016 11:48 AM

Professor Emeritus George C. Christie is visiting PluriCourts as a Fulbright’s Scholar. He joined PluriCourts in September 2016, and will stay until March 2017.

Published Oct. 5, 2016 9:35 AM

Op-ed by postdoctoral fellow Joanna Nicholson and Professor Jo Martin Stigen published in Aftenposten.