Abstract Critics challenge international courts for their interference with domestic democratic processes and alleged violations of rule of law standards: they claim that these guardians of the rule of law are not well ...

There was a sigh of relief at the European Council meeting, in December 2020.1 After weeks of uncertainty, the Hungarian and Polish governments were persuaded not to veto the adoption of the new EU financial package. The ...

Do renewable terms compromise judicial independence? Scholars of various courts have demonstrated relationships between judges' voting patterns and the interests of actors responsible for their (re)appointment. However, ...

As a contributor to climate change, deforestation has a detrimental effect in human beings’ health and living conditions. Some groups of people are especially vulnerable to these consequences. One clear example, is the one ...

The right to life is a universally recognized fundamental human right guaranteed by international, regional and national laws. This right is dependent on the availability of certain standards and components, most of which ...

We assess the impact of the United Kingdom’s 2016 decision to leave the European Union on the Council of the European Union, where Brexit is likely to have the clearest observable implications. Using concepts and models ...

Dette er en flerfaglig gjennomgang av samtlige norske straffesaker funnet på Lovdata fra 2004 fram til 2015 om «filleristing». Hver sak er gjennomgått av forfatterne; to jurister og tre medisinske eksperter på hodeskader ...

Thomas Quick of Sweden confessed to over thirty murders between 1993 and 2000, and was convicted of eight of them over the course of six trials in Sweden. All the convictions relied on his blurred confessions. He has since ...

Lakseoppdrett har på kort tid blitt Norges nest største næring. Det har vært rettet kritikk mot næringen basert på negative miljøvirkninger i kystområdene. Artikkelen drøfter en reform igangsatt i 2017 med mål om bærekraftig ...

Committee coordinators face a classic delegation problem when assigning reports to their committee members. Although a few theoretical developments have focused on the effects of expertise on delegation, empirical studies ...

Does the President of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) make strategic use of his members? Cases in the CJEU are prepared by a ‘judge-rapporteur’ who acts as an agenda setter. I argue that the President ...

Artikkelen gir en oppdatert fremstilling av forskningen på løgn og løgnavsløring i et rettslig og samfunnsmessig perspektiv. Forskningen er klar: Det foreligger intet alternativ til etterforskning. Det er så å si umulig å ...

States are free, yet everywhere live under international courts and tribunals (ICs). As they proliferate and gain power across ever more domains, ICs become targets of resistance and criticism that they are illegitimate ...

Artikkelen redegjør for og analyserer høyesterettsdommer om inntektsskatt i 2019, og inngår i årlige artikler om slike dommer.

States are urged frequently by the UN, policymakers, and activists to recognise the human right to water domestically. However, does such legal incorporation, often in national constitutions, affect water policy and the ...

The mutual dependence between courts and their compliance constituencies is a fundamental feature of judicial power. Actors whose rights and interests are reinforced by court decisions may use these as legal ammunitions ...

The Rohingyas are an ethnic Muslim minority group from Myanmar who have been denied basic human rights and citizenship status since the 1970s. They have been victims of several persecutions and forced to flee across the ...

An analysis of the doctrinal change effected by Article 17 of the DSM Directive, and the extent to which the goals sought have been proportionately balanced against the risks posed by its implementation.

In the field of comparative politics, France is often taken to exemplify the resilience of the centralized modern state. Stanley Hoffmann popularized this thesis by highlighting the French state’s “obstinacy” despite ...

These reflections elaborates the theory of The Idea of Human Rights by addressing a topic that theory attempts to bracket: international and regional judicialization in the form of international courts and tribunals. Using ...

Enthusiasm abounds about the potential of artificial intelligence to automate public decision-making. The rise of machine learning and computational text analysis together with the proliferation of digital platforms has ...

In this essay, we examine empirically whether the revised draft of the business and human rights (BHR) treaty is a normative advance on the existing jungle of global instruments. Since the 1970s, almost one hundred global ...

The judicial dialogue between national courts and the European Court of Justice as a cornerstone of European constitutionalism – The importance of understanding how place-based identities shape national judges’ willingness ...

Under covid-19-krisen våren 2020 vedtok helsemyndighetene et midlertidig forbud for helsepersonell mot å reise utenlands. Dette utreiseforbudet var tilsynelatende i nokså klar strid med retten til å forlate riket i Grunnloven ...

The Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE) approves the role of law clerks assisting judges in their decision making but cautions against clerks replacing judges. In this article we put CCJE’s caution to a test and ...

Artikkelen omhandler det strafferettslige ansvaret for uaktsom medvirkning. Det redegjøres først for ulike typer bistandshandlinger og undersøkes om de faller inn under det generelle medvirkningsansvaret i straffeloven § ...

This chapter discusses the impact of the pan-European principles of good administration on Norwegian administrative law. The chapter claims that the European Convention on Human Rights and other sources of the Council of ...

Under the Paris Agreement, parties self-determine their mitigation ambition level by submitting Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Extant assessments find that the collective ambition of current pledges is not ...

A case study of the ICC's capacity for environmental harm

The history of Norwegian petroleum constitutes an important part of the construction of the welfare state. However, scientific evidence implies that our wealth has grown at the expense of the environment. The world's ...

The Kashmir conflict is the oldest unsolved conflict on the United Nations Security Council agenda. The conflict consists of a territorial issue between India, Pakistan, China and the often omitted Kashmiri people. Where ...

In compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with disabilities, India has accepted the terms and conditions of ratifying the convention and developed its national legislation i.e. Rights of ...

Biodiversity is essential for humanity’s survival and its conservation is considered a common concern of humankind as affirmed in the Preamble of the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity. Marine biodiversity is key to ...

Artikkelen redegjør for og analyserer høyesterettsdommer om inntektsskatt i 2020, og inngår i en serie årlige artikler om dette emne.

Hvordan håndterer Norge sin militæraktivisme og sitt NATO-medlemskap når landet vil presentere seg selv som en fredsnasjon? Problemstillingen ble aktuell i det norske utenriksdepartementets nylige kampanje for å få Norge ...

Abstract Illegal, unregulated and unreported ( IUU ) fishing poses a significant threat to marine fisheries and biodiversity only outpaced by the projected impacts of climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. Ocean ...

I mai 2020 fikk grunnloven § 89 om domstolskontrollen med de andre statsmaktene ny ordlyd. Artikkelen gjennomgår deler av forhistorien, sammenligner bestemmelsen med den som ble vedtatt i 2015 og med den rettstilstanden ...

Artikkelen undersøker om persontilpasset medisin som inkluderer helseforskning og involverer annet personell enn de som tradisjonelt anses som helsepersonell, kan anses som helsehjelp etter pasient- og brukerrettighetsloven ...

Forfatteren tar utgangspunkt i den premiss at rettskildenes publikasjon bør være rettskildemessig nøytral, dvs. at valget av publikasjonsmåte ikke bør påvirke rettskildelærens innhold. Artikkelens hovedkasus til illustrasjon ...

I artikkelen sammenlignes finsk, norsk og svensk medvirkningslære. De tre landene er interessante som sammenligningsobjekt ettersom de representerer tre forskjellige tilnærminger til medvirkningslæren: strikt aksessoritet, ...

Gjenåpning av straffesaker er en ekstraordinær mulighet for å få rettet opp en uriktig dom. Spørsmålet som kan stilles fra et etterlatte- og fornærmede-perspektiv, er hvor ofte og hvor mange ganger en domfelt skal få begjære ...

The essays collected in this special issue explore what legitimacy means for actors and institutions that do not function like traditional states but nevertheless wield significant power in the global realm. They are ...

Globally, 74 countries have domestic investment laws that mention investor-state arbitration and 42 of these laws provide consent to it. That is, they give foreign investors the right to bypass national courts and bring ...

Abstract The investment treaty regime is currently going through extensive reform. Driven by a raft of investor–state dispute settlement cases, states are asking: How should we draft future investment agreements? This ...

How does backlash from consolidated democracies affect the behavior of liberal international institutions? We argue that liberal international institutions have incentives to appease their democratic critics. Liberal ...

That an accused receives a fair trial is essential to the legitimacy of international criminal courts and tribunals. However, how best to interpret the right to a fair trial in order to maximize the legitimacy of international ...

The concept of ‘Circular Economy’ (CE) has gained a great deal of attention in the last five years and has become the new all-encompassing notion for sustainable public policies. There is to date no commonly agreed definition ...

The Anthropocene and its major hypotheses reveal that in IEL there is limited appreciation that humans have begun to impact on Earth systems in their entirety. Following this, a basic proposal is made about the ability of ...

The topic for this thesis is related to EU competition law and the calculation of fines under Article 14 (3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 of 20 January 2004 on the control of concentrations between undertakings ...

The IPCC acknowledge the Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and Ocean Fertilization activities as necessary measures to mitigate global warming. Yet, these activities impose risks to the marine environment. EIA is a legal ...

The UN styles itself as a global champion of whistleblowers. Yet it has been criticised for not providing enough protection for its own whistleblowers. In an effort to address this, the UN recently introduced substantial ...

The adverse impacts of climate change are causing unprecedented challenges related to climate induced displacement. The current response in international law is, however, insufficient and leaves a legal protection gap. As ...

The activation of the ICC’s jurisdiction over the crime of aggression was activated, after contentious and enduring debate, on 17th July 2018. By incorporating victim participation within the ICC, the Rome Statute demands ...

The objective of this study is first to identify the main practical problems in international construction investments and then to examine and reveal the specificities of construction contracts within the context of ...

I artikkelen gjøres rede for det vedtatte statsbudsjettet for 2019 på rettsområdene til FAB, samtidig som vedtakene ses i sammenheng med de forhandlingene som fant sted i Stortinget mellom mindretallsregjeringen bestående ...

Artikkelens formål er å kartlegge statusen til rettslige friheter – fraværet av rettslig plikt – ved å undersøke og imøtegå tre ulike påstander om at de er rettslig irrelevante. De to første, fremsatt av Alf Ross, rammer ...

Barneloven har blitt endret flere ganger de senere år med formål om å styrke barneperspektivet i foreldretvister og gi barn økt beskyttelse mot vold og overgrep. I 2013 avsa Høyesterett en dom som gikk langt i å nekte far ...

The UN Convention for the Rights of the Child (CRC) has emerged as a central yardstick in assessing policies and practices concerning children. Norway has incorporated the convention in domestic law and performs exceptionally ...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to paint a general picture of the asset confiscation regimes used in Europe and to outline potential challenges, practical and related to issues of principle, associated with the current ...

In 2017, former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori was pardoned after serving less than half of a 25-year sentence for human rights violations. The measure was taken amidst political turmoil and an impeachment process led ...

Norsk rettsteori har lenge fulgt Torstein Eckhoff i å hevde at enhver kollisjon mellom to plikter kun er tilsynelatende og vil fjernes gjennom en harmoniserende tolkning. Artikkelen kontrasterer denne etablerte modellen ...

Gender stereotypes—stylized expectations of individuals’ traits and capabilities based on their gender—may affect the behavior of diplomats and the processes of international negotiations. In a survey experiment in the ...

Analysing the Coalition states' invocation of self-defence in Syria to demonstrate that the law as set down by the International Court of Justice has not been followed, as a result of the political impact of 9/11

The Norwegian constitution is the second oldest living constitution in the world, and the country’s Supreme Court was also the second in the world to judicially review legislation. Yet, Norway’s deep constitutional history ...

This article provides a comprehensive overview of the modalities and procedures for the effective operation of the committee tasked to facilitate implementation of, and promote compliance with, the provisions of the Paris ...