Democracy, human rights, and the design of international institutions (completed)

The project addresses constitutional and institutional issues in the political theory of human rights and asks questions like: How could we resolve the value conflict between human rights and democracy, and at what costs? And: Should and could international human rights institutions be reformed in order to achieve a more desirable institutional design?

About the project

Within the broader project Should states ratify human rights conventions?, hosted by the Centre for Advanced Study in the academic year 2009–10, I do research at the intersection of international and political theory, with a special interest in democratic theory and cosmopolitanism.

My current contributions to the project mainly address two issues: the normative relation between human rights and democracy and the design of international human rights institutions. In addition to that, I am also in the process of publishing other papers on cosmopolitan theory and democratic theory. 

Outcomes

My research will mainly result in a number of articles aimed for publication with leading international peer-reviewed academic journals.

Background

Project period

November 2009 to October 2012.

Theoretical basis

I mainly draw upon three partly overlapping domains of political theory in my research: International theory, democratic theory and global justice theory.  

Financing

My postdoc fellowship is funded by the Norwegian Research Council and the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. 

Tags: democracy, human rights, international institutions
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Contact

Johan Magnus Karlsson

Participants

  • Johan Karlsson Schaffer Universitetet i Oslo
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