I slutet av 1980-talet bytte Sveriges högsta domstolar fot och slog fast att Europakonventionen om de mänskliga rättigheterna (EKMR) och Europadomstolens (EDMR) uttolkning av den – som man tidigare betraktar som i stort sett irrelevanta – kunde och borde användas som rättskällor för att tolka svensk rätt. Om hur det kunde se ut strax dessförinnan, när domarna hade en ytterst grund kunskap om EKMR och kännedom om EDMR:s domar, vittnar en utfrågning i riksdagen som jag snubblade över för en tid sedan.
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Målen om skattelanden i Sápmi
En intressant episod av rättsmobilisering med krav på rättigheter till land i Sápmi är de så kallade skattelandsmålen som bedrevs i början av 2000-talet. I ett antal parallella rättsprocesser hävdade enskilda äganderätt till skatteland som deras anfäder varit innehavare av och som staten hade övertagit under avvittringen på 1800-talet.
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PhD and postdoc opportunities at GU
We are currently recruiting several PhD candidates and postdocs at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Gothenburg:
- 4-5 PhD candidates in Political Science (30 January 2025).
- PhD candidate specialising in democracy and human rights – any discipline (31 January 2025).
- PhD candidate in Environmental Social Science with focus on farmers as geopolitical actors (17 February 2025).
- PhD candidate in Social Anthropology with focus on health & medical anthropology (17 February 2025).
- PhD candidate in Sociology (17 February 2025).
- Postdoc in European Studies (1-3 positions) – any discipline, relatable to one of CERGU’s four research themes (27 February 2025).
Palgrave just published an edited volume on media capture – i.e., government attempts to control the mass media – in Latin America and Africa. Calle Höglund and I co-wrote a chapter on how the Museveni government seeks to control the media in Uganda and how the so-called media fraternity – a network of journalist groups and media organisations – are mobilising to prevent media capture.
As readers of this blog will know, I’ve long been puzzled by the Nordic states’ commitment to international human rights norms. In this new article, I analyse the decisions to incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights in Denmark and Sweden in the early 1990s. My argument is that had less to do with the winds of change sweeping across Europe at the time and more to do with competition in the domestic party political constellation than has been previously acknowledged.