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Sep. 1, 2015 10:47 AM
PhD Candidate Rosa Manzo cautions against too high hopes for the climate negotiations in Paris in December. The world community struggles to reach an agreement on how to tackle climate change. It is yet unclear how strong the commitments will be, and whether it will be possible to sanction those who do not fulfil their climate goals?
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Aug. 31, 2015 3:22 PM
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Aug. 24, 2015 9:18 AM
Professor Alec Stone Sweet (Yale Law School) will be at PluriCourts this week to participate in several seminars and workshops.
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Aug. 14, 2015 9:13 AM
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Aug. 3, 2015 3:45 PM
Tarald Laudal Berge was interviewed by the Norwegian newspaper, Dagens Perspektiv,on his views regarding the negotiations of Norway's new draft model agreement.
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July 23, 2015 11:29 AM
Two guest researchers join PluriCourts on 3 August: Andrew Mitchell (Melbourne University) and Gus Van Harten (York University, Canada).
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July 13, 2015 1:23 PM
The next climate agreement will be adopted in December 2015. It should not uphold the current division between developed and developen countries' responsibilities for climate change. Economy and society have changed, calling for a new interpretation of equity, writes PhD Candidate Rosa Manzo.
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July 8, 2015 2:58 PM
MultiRights PhD candidate Nino Tsereteli successfully defended her PhD thesis. The topic was "Legal Validity and Legitimacy of the Pilot Judgment Procedure of the European Court of Human Rights".
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July 3, 2015 11:33 AM
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June 15, 2015 3:41 PM
"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).
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June 5, 2015 11:39 AM
Submit a paper for the international symposium on ‘The Present and Future Role of Investment Treaty Arbitration in Adjudicating Environmental Disputes’ (Oslo, 5-6 November 2015). The submission deadline is 15 July 2015. Go to the symposium page or read the full call.
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May 28, 2015 10:08 AM
PluriCourts coordinator Ole Kristian Fauchald was interviewed by the Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen. The Norwegian government's proposal for future investment agreements between Norway and other states may limit the Norwegian politicians' scope of action, he says.
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May 22, 2015 9:48 AM
Directors of PluriCourts, Geir Ulfstein and Andreas Føllesdal disagree with the critics of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Klassekampen. Read the article here (in Norwegian, pdf).
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Apr. 16, 2015 10:31 AM
On 22 April, PluriCourts Coordinator Cecilia Bailliet took part in a panel debate on the topic "The Greatest Threat to World Peace – and what we need to know more about to face it". The event was organized by the Research School on Peace and Conflict, and took place at the University of Oslo Library. For more information, see the event page at PRIO's website.
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Apr. 13, 2015 1:43 PM
Scholars are invited to submit paper proposals for the workshop "The European Court of Human Rights: Promoter or Predator of Democratic Transitions?", which takes place 19-20 September in Istanbul. The deadline for submitting an abstract is 1 August, and the deadline for submitting a full paper is 1 September.
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Apr. 9, 2015 8:49 AM
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Mar. 23, 2015 2:50 PM
On 18 December 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) stunned the legal world by declaring that the Draft Agreement on the Accession of the EU to the European Convention on Human Rights was incompatible with the constituent treaties of the Union. In a newly published article, Stian Øby Johansen, PhD fellow at Centre for European Law, analyses one of the five separate grounds given for rejecting the Accession Agreement.
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Mar. 10, 2015 2:15 PM
In an op-ed published in the Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet, PluriCourts co-directors Geir Ulfstein and Andreas Føllesdal discuss the relationship between public international law and democratically elected national authorities.
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Jan. 29, 2015 2:38 PM
28 and 29 January, Geir Ulfstein discussed human rights in connection to two current cases in Norway on the radio.
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Jan. 28, 2015 11:46 AM
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Jan. 9, 2015 4:25 PM
Professor Ole Kristian Fauchald and Postdoctoral Fellow Daniel Behn of PluriCourts invite scholars to submit paper proposals papers for a roundtable discussion on measuring judicial responses to legitimacy crises that a number of international courts and tribunals have experienced in recent years, at the ESIL Conference, 10-12 September. The deadline for submitting a paper proposal is 25 January.
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Jan. 8, 2015 2:20 PM
On October 27, 2014, Paul Mahoney, Judge on the European Court of Human Rights, held a speech on the Legacy of the Ryssdal Presidency of the European Court of Human rights (1985-1998).
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Jan. 7, 2015 2:58 PM
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Jan. 5, 2015 1:54 PM
In a recent op-ed in the Norwegian daily Aftenposten, PluriCourts Director Andreas Føllesdal, argues that dual citizenship does not threaten Norwegian interests and that Norway should remove the prohibition on dual citizenship.
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Dec. 5, 2014 2:28 PM
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.