Citizenship Studies ABSTRACT The doctrine of popular sovereignty holds that the ‘supreme authority of the state’ belongs to the people, not to the political institutions exercising public power. What ar

Kirsty Gover: Aboriginality and Alienage: Legal Pluralism at the Australian Border

Research seminar with Kirsty Gover, Professor at Melbourne Law School. Abstract The landmark Australian High Court case of Love-Thoms (2020) raised the possibility of constitutionalised Indigenous-sett

Place: At the Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Kirsty Gover, Professor at Melbourne Law School. REGISTER AbstractThe landmark Australian High C

Rebecca Thorburn Stern

I am Professor of Public International Law at Uppsala University. My research focuses on migration, particularly asylum, human rights, and the relationship between international and national law. At ths on the project  which explores the significance of time in Swedish asylum and citizenship law over the past 25 years. The project combines public international law, legal philosophy, migration law and citizenship law and migration studies. We investigate how time is used as a tool to control and govern migration and how time can affect stability and predictability of legal status.

Res Publica Abstract This paper engages two claims defended by Axel Gosseries in "What is intergenerational justice". The first is that the demands of democratic legitimacy cannot be met in the politica

Criminal Law and Philosophy, Volume 12, Issue 1, pp 125-142. Abstract Retributivism may seem wholly uninterested in the fit between penal policy and public opinion, but on one rendition of the theory, h

Oxford University Press Very often we're uncertain about what we ought, morally, to do. We don't know how to weigh the interests of animals against humans, how strong our duties are to improve the live

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies,Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online  Research seminar with Victor Galaz, Associate Professor in Political Science at the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm

Victor Galaz: AI and Climate Change – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Artificial intelligence (AI) is often discussed as a potential “game changer” for climate change action. One key issue in this conversation focuses on the growing energy, water and carbon footprint of

In Íñigo González, Jahel Queralt, Razones públicas: Una introducción a la filosofía política, Ariel, 2021 About the Chapter “Intergenerational Justice” Future generations are a crucial concern of our time gi