This winter, I’ll be teaching Applied Theorizing again, a PhD course that aims to help PhD students develop their creative theorizing skills and advance the theoretical contributions of their dissertation projects.
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I’ve recently published the article “The Self-Exempting Activist: Sweden and the International Human Rights Regime” in the Nordic Journal of Human Rights, 38(1), 2020.
Here’s the abstract:
This article seeks to account for Sweden’s evolving commitment to the international human rights (HR) regime since its inception in the late 1940s. Where previous research has explained Nordic HR exceptionalism in terms of values of solidarity and democracy in domestic society, this article instead develops a rationalist framework focusing on how governments assess the sovereignty costs states incur through their international HR commitments – costs which may increase as the international regime accretes authority and domestic groups gain opportunities for mobilising for compliance. Empirically, the article adopts a longitudinal approach to determine how Swedish governments have committed to international human rights norms in three historical episodes: the emergence of the European Convention on Human Rights; the era of international activism from the 1960s, and the domestication of international human rights law since the 1980s.
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Editor of NJHR
As of September 1, 2020, I am the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights, together with Professor Gentian Zyberi.
If you have an innovative, exciting paper or an idea for a special issue advancing the field, send it my way! The journal takes a broad and multi-disciplinary approach to human rights, in the Nordic region and beyond. It’s published by Taylor & Francis and it’s ranked at Level 2 in the Norwegian Scientific Index.
I’m much looking forward to contributing to the development of the journal and to build upon the dedicated work of previous editors over the years.
En socialrättighetsrevolution som kom av sig, kallade jag i ett tidigare inlägg den snabba ökningen och lika snabba minskningen av mål enligt socialtjänstlagen i svenska förvaltningsdomstolar på 1990-talet. Kanske inte en helt rättvisande beskrivning, för efter millennieskiftet ökade antalet mål igen när socialtjänstlagen fick sig en återställare.
Efter de senaste inläggen har många läsare hört av sig och bett mig posta fler episoder ur Sveriges rättighetspolitiska historia. Jag är överväldigad av gensvaret, så här kommer ytterligare en intressant episod: I mitten av 1990-talet tyckte ledande företrädare för LO att Sverige skulle säga upp Europakonventionen om de mänskliga rättigheterna i fall den underminerade den svenska strejkrätten.