Search for dissertations about: "legal aid"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 swedish dissertations containing the words legal aid.

  2. 1. Judicial Review and Individual Legal Activism : The Case of Russia in Theoretical Perspective

    Author : Anna Jonsson; Anders Fogelklou; Thomas Bull; Katlijn Malfliet; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Constitutional law; Judicial review; judicial protection; individual rights; individual legal activism; democracy; support structure; standing rules; legal aid; public law adjudication; civil society; Council of Europe; access to justice; Russia; post-Socialist; legal transition; Konstitutionell rätt; Constitutional law; Konstitutionell rätt; Konstitutionell rätt; Constitutional Law;

    Abstract : This dissertation deals with judicial review of governmental action and individual legal activism. It investigates whether judicial protection of individual rights and individual legal activism, within the field of public law, can be seen as an alternative or complement to electoral control of political and administrative powers. READ MORE

  4. 2. International organizations and children’s rights : Norm adoption, pressure tactics and state compliance

    Author : Johanna von Bahr; Jonas Tallberg; Lisa Dellmuth; Jean Grugel; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; international organizations; children’s rights; European Union; United Nations; norm adoption; pressure tactics; state compliance; development aid; foreign policy; non-governmental organizations; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

    Abstract : Since the adoption of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989), the attention given by international organizations (IOs) to children’s rights has increased. This dissertation seeks to identify what this means for the global promotion of children’s rights, by addressing three interrelated questions: 1. READ MORE

  5. 3. Unfit to live among others : Essays on the ethics of imprisonment

    Author : William Bülow; Till Grüne-Yanoff; Christopher Bennett; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Applied Ethics; Collateral Harm; Communicative Theory of Punishment; Democratic Self- determination; Doctrine of Double Effect; Felon Disenfranchisement; Imprisonment; Legal Punishment; Practical Philosophy; Philosophy of Punishment; Privacy; Filosofi; Philosophy;

    Abstract : This thesis provides an ethical analysis of imprisonment as a mode of punishment. Consisting in an introduction and four papers the thesis addresses several important questions concerning imprisonment from a number of different perspectives and theoretical starting points. READ MORE

  6. 4. Governing Refugees through Gender Equality : Care, Control, Emancipation

    Author : Elisabeth Olivius; Christine Hudson; Malin Eklund Wimelius; Elisabeth Prügl; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Global governance; feminism; gender equality; refugees; refugee camps; humanitarian aid; Bangladesh; Thailand; governmentality; postcolonial feminist theory; freds- och konfliktforskning; Peace and Conflict Research;

    Abstract : In recent decades, international feminist activism and research has had significant success in pushing gender issues onto the international agenda and into global governance institutions and processes. The goal of gender equality is now widely accepted and codified in international legal instruments. READ MORE

  7. 5. Legal Aspects of Conflicts of Interest in the Financial Services Sector in the EU and China : The XYZ of Norm-making

    Author : Kelly Chen; Jan Kleineman; Jessika van der Sluijs; Ross Cranston; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; conflicts of interest; investment services; EU financial regulation; MIFID II; Chinese financial regulation; Chinese law; soft law; intressekonflikter; finansiella marknader; EU finansmarknadsreglering; kinesisk finansmarknadsreglering; kinesisk rätt; Private Law; civilrätt;

    Abstract : The dissertation is an analysis of financial services firms’ duty to manage the conflicts of interest that can arise within the scope of the firm-client relationship in the financial services sectors in the EU and China. Three services in particular are used as examples, namely buying and selling shares in companies on behalf of clients, investment advisory, and individual portfolio management in relation to such shares. READ MORE