I 2008 opplevde Noreg ein auke i talet på einslege mindreårige asylsøkjarar, frå 403 i 2007 til 2500 i 2009. Dette førte til ei innstramming i asylpolitikken og innføring av midlertidig opphald for einslege mindreårige ...

This paper analyses Jürgen Habermas’s claim that democracy and human rights are co-original and its implications for his international theory. A central argument in his theory, the co-originality thesis suggests that human ...

This article investigates gender implications of judicial activism within the context of the 2011 revolution. Relying on analysis of a sample of judicial decisions in the field of divorce and child-rearing, I argue that ...

The article adopts a human rights perspective on the advent and proliferation of open access publishing models and policy goals, focusing primarily on the human right of everyone to benefit from progress in science and ...

Nordic Journal of Human Rights. 2013, 31(2), 262-278 http://www.idunn.no/ts/ntmr/2013/02

How can we assess the epistemic quality of democratic decision-making? Sceptics doubt such assessments are possible, as they must rely on controversial substantive standards of truth and rightness. Challenging that scepticism, ...

Norwegian climate policy has stalled; it is fundamentally isolated from broader energy and economic policies, particularly the country's petroleum industry. Human rights can reinvigorate climate politics by recognising ...

As we teach political theory, we cannot escape the canon problem, since we must select a manageable set of key texts, thinkers and theories. However, what we select also shapes what we take political theory and the subject ...