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In this session, guest researcher Ian Heffernan presents his research on the deterioration of civil rights during the COVID-19 pandemic and the civilian response.

Meet the first UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment! Our panel will discuss strategies and tactics to support people in the frontline of defending a clean and healthy environment.

The Global Challenges to Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice Research Group at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (NCHR) is organizing a workshop on human rights defenders (14th September) followed with a public event (15th September).  

In this seminar, guest researcher Bashkim Jupolli looks into the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and the Specialist Prosecutor's Office. The accused's right to information in these chambers is compared with practices from other international criminal courts and tribunals.

Corporate social responsibility is an area that is rapidly gaining attention. The issue of companies’ accountability for the whole value chain is raised with increased frequency, particularly as far as concerns violation of human rights, labour- or environmental law incurred abroad by subsidiaries or suppliers.

Webinar held by Simon Vanhove, PhD researcher, Katholieke Universitet Leuven, Centre for Public Law, Belgium.

This conference addresses topical issues concerning challenges to human rights protection online and the regulation and use of artificial intelligence.

Welcome to this seminar focusing on Elon Musk, the Law of the Sea and the development of outer space. 

In this lecture, Joel Mark Baysa-Barredo, Executive Director of SHAPE-SEA, will touch on the state of academic freedom in the ASEAN region and SHAPE-SEA's work to build safe spaces for academics. 

In this lecture, Martin Fertmann questions the role of new ‘social media councils’ such as Meta’s Oversight Board for Facebook and Instagram in international law interpretation, and overall, in improving the protection of human rights online.  

Lunch Seminar focusing on the regulation of shipping induced climate change in the Arctic, and on the market-based measures and the energy transition for international maritime transport.

Welcome to this afternoon guest lecture with Professor Yuko Kimijima, Keio University, Tokyo.

The seminar is open for all interested. 

Deprivation of liberty is subject to the strictest legality requirements, but the grounds and procedures of detention in international and non-international conflicts are contested. Several states have in the last decade looked into providing legal base in domestic law without introducing any legislation or reaching any outcome otherwise.

Is the European Union’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine  consistent with the balance of the European Union’s international trade law obligations and rights? Join us for a seminar where James Flett discusses the EU approach.

External PhD candidate Stuart Weinstein, Aston University, Birmingham, UK, will present his PhD project: "AI and Legal Risk: Can the Past and the Future Teach Us About the Present?".

Author of the book is Linn Anker-Sørensen, Director, Head of Sustainability Tax & Law Norway at Ernst & Young. 

Ola Mestad, Professor at Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, will present the book "Corporate Groups and Shadow Business Practices".

Open for all interested. 

Master of Laws Nicola Claire Strain at PluriCourts will be defending the thesis Jurisdiction and Applicable Law in Investor-State and WTO Dispute Settlement. Comparing Consent and Inconsistency in the Application of Other International Law for the degree of Ph.D.

The Albanian High Judicial Council and Albanian Supreme Court, in cooperation with the Tirana Legal Aid Society, cordially invites you to the International Conference Model of selection, evaluation and promotion of judges: What competences and skills matter? Best practices and trends.

Bård Sverre Tuseth at the department of Public and International Law will be defending the thesis Trykkefrihed bør finde Sted. Grunnloven § 100 fra 1814 til 1905 for the degree of Ph.D.

The disputation will be held in Norwegian.

The workshop will discuss central banks’ expanding roles, independence and control mechanisms. Amongst other issues, it will examine the historical origin of central bank independence, to what extent are courts and tribunals willing to review the legality of central banks’ decision making, and how is this influencing central banks policies, as well as what alternative mechanisms for checks and balances of central bank policies exist.

Human rights defenders are often on the front line of conflicts involving land and resource use and in protecting the environment. Join us for a conversation with UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders, Mary Lawlor, about how the concept of sustainability might impact human rights defenders.

Welcome to our afternoon seminar with presentation by Minah Tong-Mongalo, Ph.D. student at the University of Cape Town.

Open for all interested. 

What are the intersections of human rights and sustainability, and how do the two agendas meet? This three-day conference aims to develop critical and reflective thinking on sustainability and its linkages to human rights.

In this event, Professor Stener Ekern will give a farewell lecture to reflect on the above topic, his career and years at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights.