Pub Date : 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1080/18918131.2023.2273652
J. Schaffer, M. Langford, M. Madsen
. Abstract Why have civil society groups in Scandinavia increasingly turned to legal mobilization in recent decades? In Denmark, Norway and Sweden, a legal-political culture based on parliamentary supremacy, deferential judiciaries, strong-state corporatism, and jurispru-dential skepticism towards rights talk supposedly discourages groups in civil society from seeking societal change through litigation. However, in all three countries, diverse groups and organizations in civil society have increasingly adopted litigation strategies for a broad range of causes. In this paper, we seek to account for how and why this shift has occurred. Drawing on socio-legal mobilization theory, we compare Denmark, Norway and Sweden across three episodes from the 1970s to today. Litigation has gradually moved from the political margins to the mainstream. Our findings suggest that while European law, domestic institutional reforms, and a proliferating human rights discourse has opened new ways for resourceful groups and entrepreneurial individuals to challenge the status quo, for mainstream organizations par-liamentary and corporatist channels remain often viable and preferred alternatives. The paper thus contributes to emerging literatures on how civil society groups in Scandinavia employ litigation strategies by offering a comparative, historical assessment, and contributes to knowledge about the factors that shape legal mobilization by civil society groups.
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Pub Date : 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1080/18918131.2023.2288772
Stine Piilgaard Porner Nielsen, Ole Hammerslev
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Pub Date : 2024-01-04DOI: 10.1080/18918131.2024.2301715
Mohammed Almahfali, Nesma Hewidy, Merle von der Hülst
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Pub Date : 2023-12-18DOI: 10.1080/18918131.2023.2289763
Akinaga Yoshida
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Pub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.1080/18918131.2023.2284492
H. Tuominen
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Pub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.1080/18918131.2023.2284490
Jonas Fritzler
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Pub Date : 2023-11-17DOI: 10.1080/18918131.2023.2277581
A. Limantė
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Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.1080/18918131.2023.2275384
Wiebe Hommes
{"title":"Decolonization, Self-Determination and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics <b>Decolonization, Self-Determination and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics</b> , A. Dirk Moses, Marco Duranti and Roland Burke (eds.), Cambridge; New York, Cambridge University Press, 2020, 435pages, 29.99$ (ebook/paperback), ISBN 9781108749701.","authors":"Wiebe Hommes","doi":"10.1080/18918131.2023.2275384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2023.2275384","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42311,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Human Rights","volume":"64 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136347875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.1080/18918131.2023.2272234
Brian D. Lepard, Harold W. Conroy
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Theodor Meron, Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms as Customary Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1989)2 See Pew Research Center, “Worldwide Abortion Policies: Circumstances under which a Woman Can Legally Obtain an Abortion: Woman’s Life” (Oct. 5, 2015) accessed Oct. 4, 2023
{"title":"The Customary International Law of Human Rights <b>The Customary International Law of Human Rights</b> by William A. Schabas, Oxford University Press, 2021, 432 pp., $110.00 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-19-284569-6","authors":"Brian D. Lepard, Harold W. Conroy","doi":"10.1080/18918131.2023.2272234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2023.2272234","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 Theodor Meron, Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms as Customary Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1989)2 See Pew Research Center, “Worldwide Abortion Policies: Circumstances under which a Woman Can Legally Obtain an Abortion: Woman’s Life” (Oct. 5, 2015) <https://www.pewresearch.org/interactives/global-abortion/> accessed Oct. 4, 2023","PeriodicalId":42311,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Human Rights","volume":"7 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136348286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.1080/18918131.2023.2275385
Ran Yi
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size AcknowledgementsThe author would like to acknowledge the editors and reviewers of this journal for their valuable feedback on the earlier versions of this article.Notes1 The United Nations, Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989). accessed 19 June 2023.2 Ran Yi, ‘The promise of linguistic equity for migrants in Australian courtrooms: a cross-disciplinary perspective’ [2023] 29 (1) Australian Journal of Human Rights 174 accessed 7 October 2023 See also Ran Yi, ‘Review of Social Justice for Children in the South’ [2023] People, Place, and Policy accessed 7 October 2023
{"title":"Children, human rights and temporary labour migration: Protecting the child-parent relationship <b>Children, human rights and temporary labour migration: Protecting the child-parent relationship</b> , by Rasika Ramburuth Jayasuriya, London, New York, Routledge, 2021, viii+322 pp., $62.39, ISBN 9780367462994","authors":"Ran Yi","doi":"10.1080/18918131.2023.2275385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/18918131.2023.2275385","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size AcknowledgementsThe author would like to acknowledge the editors and reviewers of this journal for their valuable feedback on the earlier versions of this article.Notes1 The United Nations, Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989). <https://www.unicef.org/child-rights-convention/convention-text> accessed 19 June 2023.2 Ran Yi, ‘The promise of linguistic equity for migrants in Australian courtrooms: a cross-disciplinary perspective’ [2023] 29 (1) Australian Journal of Human Rights 174 <https://doi.org/10.1080/1323238X.2023.2232171> accessed 7 October 2023 See also Ran Yi, ‘Review of Social Justice for Children in the South’ [2023] People, Place, and Policy <https://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2023.9839595834> accessed 7 October 2023","PeriodicalId":42311,"journal":{"name":"Nordic Journal of Human Rights","volume":"9 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136346334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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