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Report in External Series | Dec 2019
Understanding effects of corruption on law enforcement and environmental crime
Law enforcement agencies monitor and enforce laws that protect landscapes,
seascapes, and the species that inhabit them. Corruption helps violators circumvent these laws and regulations and makes law enforcement a much...
Washington D.C.: Targeting Natural Resource Corruption Consortium

Report in External Series | Dec 2019
Building accountable resource governance institutions
Formal institutions are central actors in natural resource governance decisions and a key arena in which policies, laws and regulations ranging from forest concessions to trade in wildlife products are...
Washington D.C.: Targeting Natural Resource Corruption Consortium (TNRC Introductory Overview)

Journal Article | Dec 2019
The Limits of Law: Abortion in the Middle East and Northern Africa
in Health and Human Rights Journal

Journal Article | Dec 2019
Gender parity and the symbolic representation of women in Senegal
Following the adoption of the Senegalese Law on Parity and the subsequent influx of women to the National Assembly, we saw a strong gendered polarisation of attitudes towards women as...
in The Journal of Modern African Studies

Journal Article | Dec 2019
The politicization of abortion and hippocratic disobedience in Islamist Sudan
In Sudan's Islamist state, abortion is politicized through its association to illegal pregnancy. Fornication is crime against God punishable with 100 lashes. Pregnancy outside a marriage contract constitute sufficient evidence...
in Health and Human Rights (online first, October 2019)

Book Chapter | Dec 2019
Legal pluralism and fragmented sovereignties: legality and illegality in Latin America
in Rachel Sieder, Karina Ansolabehere y Tatiana Alfonso: The Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America. New York: Routledge

Edited Book | Dec 2019
The Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America
Understanding law and its efficacy in Latin America demands concepts distinct from the hegemonic notions of rule of law which have dominated debates on law, politics and society, and that...
New York: Routledge

Newspaper Op-Ed | Sep 2019
Why fix KPK when it is not broken?
Indonesia’s most promising attempt at controlling corruption and an inspiration for its peers internationally is about to lose a lot of what enabled it to be so effective and trusted...
Jakarta Post 27 September

Book Chapter | Sep 2019
The Internal Protection Alternative and its Relation to Refugee Status
in Satvinder Juss: Research Handbook on International Refugee Law. Elgar

Book Chapter | Jul 2019
The Judicialisation of Politics in Latin America
in Sieder, Rachel., Ansolabehere, Karina., Alfonso, Tatiana: Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America. Routledge

Journal Article | Jun 2019
Family Law Reform, Employment, and Women’s Political Participation in Ethiopia
Research showing that there is strong correlation between increased female labor force participation and women’s political participation is essentially based on empirical data from Western, democratic, and developed contexts. In...
in Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society vol. 26 no. 2 pp. 189-192 vol. 26 no. 2 299-323 p.

Journal Article | Jun 2019
Legal Regimes, Women’s Work, and Women’s Empowerment
The second-wave feminist movement called attention to the endurance of discriminatory laws that deny women equal rights and opportunities. Since the 1970s, most countries around the world responded to feminist...
in Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society vol. 26 no. 2 pp. 189-192

CMI Brief | May 2019
The perfect enemy: From migrants to sexual minorities
Why did Poland´s conservative government, the Law and Justice Party, launch an attack on the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people (LGBT) as part of their 2019 European...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief no. 2019:05) 4 p.

U4 Issue | May 2019
Comparing peer-based anti-corruption missions in Kosovo and Guatemala
International missions brought foreign experts to help local partners tackle corruption and organised crime in Kosovo and Guatemala. With unprecedented investigative powers, those efforts sought to disrupt criminal networks and...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Issue 2019:6)

Journal Article | Feb 2019
Illicit financial flows within the extractive industries sector: a glance at how legal requirements can be manipulated and diverted
The extractive industries sector is considered to be one of the most prone to illicit financial flows. To date, numerous instruments at the national, regional and international level have been...
in Crime, Law and Social Change vol. 71 no. 1 pp. 107-128

Book Chapter | Jan 2019
Introduction: Implementing Child Rights
The UN Convention for the Rights of the Child (CRC) has emerged as a central yardstick in assessing policies and practices concerning children. Norway has incorporated the convention in domestic...
in Malcolm Langford , Marit Skivenes and Karl Harald Søvig (eds.): Children's Rights in Norway An Implementation Paradox?. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget pp. 15-41

Book Chapter | Jan 2019
Policing
Policing is critical for children’s security but police are also responsible for preventing and addressing crime by children and younger persons. This can raise risks from a human rights perspective,...
in Malcolm Langford , Marit Skivenes and Karl Harald Søvig (eds.): Children's Rights in Norway An Implementation Paradox?. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget pp. 202-219

Book Chapter | Jan 2019
Citizenship, statelessness, and human rights protection in Sudan's constitutions and post South Sudan secession challenges
Sudan and South Sudan have suffered from repeated cycles of conflict and authoritarianism resulting in serious human rights and humanitarian law violations. Several efforts, such as the 2005 Comprehensive Peace...
in Constitution-making and Human Rights in the Sudans (Lutz Oette, Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker (eds.))

Book Chapter | Jan 2019
The plain drone, the armed drone and human security
The plain drone and the armed drone differ greatly in their impact on human security. The plain drone is essentially neutral; its impact depends on the nature and purpose of...
in Handbook of Intervention and Statebuilding. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd

Journal Article | Jan 2019
Does Anthropology Matter to Law ?
in Journal of Legal Anthropology vol. 2 no. 2 pp. 1-11