Norway and Denmark have recently adopted active policies of temporary protection featuring, inter alia, the revocation of residence permits. These policies narrow the space

for human rights considerations and beg the question of how immigration decision-makers approach and navigate this new legal terrain. [...]

Childhood obesity is now a global health epidemic, yet the obligations of states to prevent obesity through fulfillment of the right to health have received limited consideration.

This article examines the childhood obesity recommendations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (the committee on the CRC), the Special Rapporteur on the [...]

This book explores human rights oversight in asylum decision making through a sociolegal lens, focusing on the Nordic countries. It examines how institutional contexts shape

interactions between national and international law, highlighting how national decision makers navigate and contest international norms. [...]

Orders are judicial decisions designed to shore up fair and timely resolution of disputes. As written, detailed, and factual documents, they are reliable markers of procedural

steps and a unique source of information about the inner working of an institution. [...]

This Article provides the outline for a conceptual framework focusing on legal infrastructures, comprised of socio-material assemblages and entangled legal normativities that

both enable and constrain human societies. Section A introduces the growing transdisciplinary field of infrastructural studies, which employs the notion of infrastructure [...]

Offshore carbon capture and storage (CCS) deployment has been hailed as a game changer in the ever-changing climate game in the era of Paris Agreement. In the European Union

(EU), rigorous regulation within a legal framework governs cross-border offshore CCS projects, while China adopts a flexible policy-oriented approach. [...]

This article presents a structured and holistic analysis of key climate-related transition risks facing the global shipping industry. As maritime transport undergoes decarbonization,

it is confronted with a range of interdependent challenges, which can be ordered in five primary categories: litigation, policy, contractual, technological, and social [...]

Solitary confinement of children is increasingly being challenged in Australian courts, with rulings recently handed down in Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia. Recent

international jurisprudence on the harmful practice, and on torture more broadly, stands poised to advance the local cause. [...]

The Court of Justice of the European Union (Court) delivered a preliminary ruling in 2011 in the case of Oliver Brüstle v Greenpeace on the interpretation of Article 6(2)

of the Biotech Directive and thereby established an autonomous concept of the term ‘human embryo’. [...]

While many regard equality as the moral foundation of democracy, republican theory grounds democracy in freedom as non-domination. The grounding of democracy in freedom has

been criticized for relying on either an Aristotelian perfectionism or a Rousseauian equation of the people in their collective capacity and the people understood [...]