Forest-based bioenergy plays a key role in the energy transition and in meeting the EU renewable energy targets. Indirectly promoted by the EU legislation, forest biomass demand is increasing while European forest sinks are decreasing. To prevent forest-based bioenergy from exacerbating climate change instead of being part of the solution to mitigate it, the Renewable Energy Directive II and the ...

This thesis studies the current legal and regulatory barriers in the offshore wind industry on an international, regional and local perspective in particular in Sweden and Norway, two of the most important countries for the offshore wind industry. Today offshore wind farms are a very important topic for the renewable energy sector but also for the fight against climate change and a transition ...

The present master thesis seeks to understand what is legally required to substantially contribute and do no significant harm to the environmental objectives, of the newly adopted EU Taxonomy Regulation. A particular focus was to understand the legal significance of compliance with the technical screening criteria meant to supplement the general conditions to substantially contribute and do no ...

This chapter addresses conflicts of interest that might arise when there are ongoing custody disputes and, in particular, how legal instruments can be used where parents disagree regarding a decision concerning a child’s health. When a child is younger than 16 years, their parents must, as a rule, give consent regarding health matters. The child has a right, however, to be heard, and the parents ...

Temaet for denne avhandlingen er vern av minoriteters rett til å utøve sin kultur etter Den internasjonale konvensjonen om sivile og politiske rettigheter artikkel 27.1 I oppgaven vil jeg undersøke om det ved vurderingen av om artikkel 27 er overtrådt, må skilles mellom inngrep utenfra og tiltak som samlet er ment å være til fordel for minoriteten. Et sentralt spørsmål er om kravene som er innfortolket ...

This chapter explores how Western higher education (HE) can benefit from the adoption of illustrated storytelling as a methodology to simultaneously dis-empower gender stereotypes and empower persons in academia. Drawing from indigenous law and methodology and participatory approaches as an essential part of the legal methodology, we explore how critical role-playing developed through storytelling ...

This article examines the application of teachings by the International Court of Justice between 2016 and 2022. The Court did not cite teachings in its majority opinions during this period. It did cite works from the International Law Commission, which suggests that these are considered different from teachings and possibly have more weight. Judges cited teachings in their individual opinions. Judge ...

Denne artikkelen kartlegger utviklingen av det dualistiske prinsippet i norsk rett. Artikkelen finner et skille ved avgjørelsen i Rt. 1997 s. 580 OFS, og prinsipputtalelsen om at norsk rett går foran folkeretten ved motstrid. Denne ser ut til å ha avklart av rettstilstanden. Før avgjørelsen var det usikkerhet og uenighet rundt folkerettens stilling i norsk rett, mens etter avgjørelsen fremstår dette ...

Artikkelen redegjør for hvordan synet på allmennhetens innsynsrett og behovet for å redusere forvaltningens arbeidsbyrde har endret seg over tid. I dag kommer spenningen mellom innsynsretten og forvaltningens arbeidsbyrde opp i form av spørsmålet om hvilke krav som stilles til forvaltningens saksbehandlingstid for innsynskrav. I Norge er reglene som regulerer kravene til forvaltningens saksbehandlingstid, ...

In 2008, the Finnmark Act initiated a process of surveying land rights the Sámi and others may have in Finnmark, the core Sámi area of Norway. The Finnmark Commission, which was established to conduct the survey has completed six investigations. The assessments and conclusions in the first five reports are so similar in terms of collective rights appears as cut from the same cloth. In December 2019, ...