41 projects

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Den internasjonale rettens påvirkning på nasjonal rett

National law is increasingly being influenced by international law, and this raises difficult questions that are unsatisfactorily explored in Norwegian law. How should the content of an international norm be determined when that norm is applied in national law? What is the status of international...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Rettsstatsutvikling gjennom digital formidling av rett

AI tools are already in use in the legal field. Developments in both the public and private sectors are progressing rapidly. Nevertheless, there is little knowledge among lawyers about how AI tools can strengthen or weaken the rule of law in general, and individual legal security in particular. T...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SIKKERHET-SIKKERHET

LAW22JULY: RIPPLES (Rights, Institutions, Procedures, Participation, Litigation:Embedding Security)

‘Northernizing’ transitional justice: legalism, the rule of law and the state as referent entity As a field of both practice and academic scholarship, transitional justice is expanding beyond the realm of post-conflict justice. Since 9/11, liberal democracies such as the UK, Spain, France, Belgiu...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

POS-ERC-Støtte til ERC-søkere som oppnår god evaluering

State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) within International Law's Public-Private Divide

The economic importance of State-owned enterprises (SOEs) has increased significantly in recent years. Their cross-border reach and formidable economic power in turn raises various questions regarding how such enterprises should be regulated at the international level. Yet at the same time, much ...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPRO-Fri prosjektstøtte

The case for Regulation of Synthetic Biology and the Need for a New Category of Risk An Interdisciplinary analysis between the EU and the US

Synthetic biology (synbio) represents a new and emerging scientific discipline which lies at the intersection of engineering, computational modelling, and biological sciences. It is based on an engineering approach to biology with the aim of designing and developing biological systems that do not...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Responses to the legitimacy crisis of international investment law

LEGINVEST’s main objective has been to map the need for and propose measures to ensure that international investment law does not prevent but rather contributes to the environmental protection, human rights and sustainable development. The project has employed two PhD candidates and one part-time...

Awarded: NOK 9.8 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2023

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

State Consent to International Jurisdiction: Conferral, Modification and Termination

The project started in 2018, when two PhD fellows were hired. Emma Brandon would focus on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the three regional human rights courts. Nicola Strain would be dealing with the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement body and investor-State dispute se...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2018-2022

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

The Environment in Court

From 20 to 25 June 2016, PluriCourts Research Centre based at the Law Faculty of the University of Oslo will host the annual conference for the International Union for Conservation of Nature Academy of Environmental Law (IUCNAEL). The conference theme is "The Environment in Court", and it will fo...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2016-2016

Location: Oslo - Oslove

SFF-Sentre for fremragende forskning

PluriCourts - Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order

The proliferation of international courts and tribunals (ICs) from the 1990s onward initially sparked hopes for a more rules-based international order. But their number and impact have generated debates regarding their legitimacy and the extent to which their exercise of power is justified. Today...

Awarded: NOK 175.2 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2024

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

Gender identity and sexual orientation in international and national (Norwegian) law

Human rights principles, like the right to equality and non-discrimination, self-determination and integrity apply to all, simply by virtue of having been born human. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) persons are no exception. Yet, their right to equality and freedom is not...

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2013-2019

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IS-NAD-Samarbeid med NORAD-land

Chinese Adaptative water Resources for Climate Change, Kinesisk statsstipend 2012/2013

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Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2012-2013

Location: Oslo - Oslove

GRUNNLOV-Grunnlovsjubileet 2014

Nye perspektiver på grunnlovshistorien

The Norwegian Constitution of 1814 represented a break with past politics, and Danish-Norwegian absolutism. Norway became a constitutional state. Instituting a new constitution in 1814 entailed the establishment of the Norwegian state, as well as a decision and awareness about the contents of tha...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IS-RURE-EONR-rettsvitenskap

CONVENTIONAL WISDOM: ECHR AND THE CHANGING LEGAL ARGUMENT IN EUROPEAN COURTS

The topic of this project is the different ways in which the ECHR has changed legal reasoning in the French, German, and UK judiciaries. Mitchell Lasser, in his recent book Judicial Transformations (UOP, 2009), has described this development in the follow ing terms: Fundamental rights are explodi...

Awarded: NOK 49,000

Project Period: 2011-2011

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIHUMSAM-Fri prosjektstøtte for hum.fag og samfunnsvitenskap

International law through the national prism: the impact of judicial dialogue (ECRP)

The principal objective of this project was to study the interaction between national courts and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) with a view to assess whether they are in a state of competition on the relative importance of the European Convention on Human Rights and the respective nat...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2011-2015

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Utviklingen av norsk ytringsfrihet - et konstitusjonelt perspektiv på overnasjonal rettsliggjøring

PhD-avhandling der "rekonstitusjonaliseringen" som følger av den tiltagende overnasjonale rettsliggjøring, brukes som perspektiv på de spenninger som skapes i møtet mellom nasjonal og internasjonal rett. Spenningene er særlig synlige der overnasjonale ins trumenter, her Den europeiske menneskeret...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2010

Location: Oslo - Oslove

P-KVINN-Program for kvinne- og kjønnsf

Demokrati, religionsfrihet og kvinners menneskerettigheter (se også 163703)

Avhandlingen fokuserer på tre ulike typer situasjoner med verdikonflikter: For det første, når fører prinsipper om likhet og vern mot diskriminering, som samfunnet bygger på, til at det er nødvendig å sette grenser for utøvelsen av religion og livssyn i t ros- og livssynssamfunn? For det andre, i...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2010-2011

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Studies on the implementation of treaties on economic, social and cultural rights in China and Norway (ESCR Network)

The primary aim of the project is to establish a network for research on the implementation of treaties on economic, social and cultural rights in China and Norway. The network will be based at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo. Invited partner s in China are the Chinese Academy of Soc...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Oslo - Oslove

PUBL-Publisering/prosjektinform

Yearbook of International Environmental Law (YBIEL)

Yearbook of International Environmental Law er den fremste internasjonale publikasjon til dokumentasjon av den miljørettslige utviklingen slik den skjer i internasjonale organisasjoner og konferanser, samt i de enkelte land. I tillegg inneholder årboka ar tikler om miljørett av de internasjonalt ...

Awarded: NOK 0.36 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Oslo - Oslove

IS-BILAT-Mobilitet Norge-USA /Canada

Transnational family relations. A comparative perspective on present legal challenges (JOURNALNR UIO: 07/230)

The project focuses on minority women's right to non-discrimination, in the light of their position in the family and marriage, and with a view to a cultural complex, socially unequal and transnational context of law. The focal point of the study is on Mu slim women's right to protection against ...

Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2008

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Et trygdesystem i sterk forandring (A legal study of the Norwegian Social Security System in a time of Rapid Development)

Vedtakelsen av folketrygdloven av 1966 ble kalt den største sosiale reformen i vårt land. De reformene av trygdesystemet som nå foregår, kan bli av enda større betydning. To viktige lovendringer er allerede gjennomført, og fire er nært forestående: 1) obl igatorisk tjenestepensjon; 2) NAV-reforme...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Oslo - Oslove

DIV-INT-Annet internasjonalt samarbeid

Konferanse - The New International Law, 15. - 18. mars 2007

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Awarded: NOK 50,000

Project Period: 2007-2007

Location: Oslo - Oslove

ISPJUS-ISP - Satsing på juridisk forskning

International tribunals: legalization and constitutionalization - implications for national constitutional structures

Prosjektet er basert på antakelsen om at forpliktelsene stater påtar seg i traktater i økende grad tolkes og utvikles i ved internasjonale domstoler. Prosjektet forfølger to hovedmål. Det første er å identifisere hvilken rolle ulike internasjonale domstol er spiller for rettsutviklingen internasj...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

Regulering av vindkraft

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Awarded: NOK 0.11 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2007

Location: Oslo - Oslove

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Meeting the climate challenge: New legal instruments and issues in national and international energy and climate law

The project takes a broad approach to legal issues inherent in the dynamic and increasingly intertwined fields of national and international climate and energy policy. It is organised within the research group in Natural Resources Law at the Law Faculty w ith broad competence in environmental and...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

SAMFUNN: IPPC-direktivet i EFs miljørett og gjennomføringen i norsk rett

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Awarded: NOK 0.10 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2008

Location: Oslo - Oslove

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

Adjudication of the Precautionary Principle

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Awarded: NOK 54,323

Project Period: 2005-2007

Location: Oslo - Oslove

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Barns rettigheter: Barnekonvensjonens betydning for forvaltnings- og rettspraksis og for forholdet mellom barn, foreldre og staten.

Prosjektets overordnede tema er betydningen av FNs barnekonvensjon for barns levekår og velferd. Stortinget vedtok i 2003 å inkorporere FNs barnekonvensjon i norsk lov. Konvensjonen gir barn individuelle menneskerettigheter, som medbestemmelse, tanke-, tr os- og ytringsfrihet, noe som vil ha kons...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2012

Location: Oslo - Oslove

RAMBU-Rammebeting.,styringsmul. og virkem. for en bærekraftig utvikling

Strafferettslig håndheving av miljørettslovgivning

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Awarded: NOK 89,999

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Oslo - Oslove

RAMBU-Rammebeting.,styringsmul. og virkem. for en bærekraftig utvikling

Føre-var-prinsippets betydning i norsk rett

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Awarded: NOK 89,999

Project Period: 2005-2006

Location: Oslo - Oslove

P-KVINN-Program for kvinne- og kjønnsf

Demokrati, religionsfrihet og kvinners menneskerettigheter

Problemstillinger i skjæringspunktet mellom religionsfrihet og kvinners menneskerettigheter utgjør en brennbar tematikk både internajsonalt og innenfor nasjonalstatenes rammer. Den setter sterkt preg på internasjonal feministisk debatt og blir stadig mer sentral i norsk samfunnsdebatt. I alle sam...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2011

Location: Oslo - Oslove