Pontus Strimling

I am a research leader at the Institute for Futures Studies, on the theme "New Technologies and the future of humanity", guest professor of Migration and health at the department of Women's and Childr

Law, Ethics and Philosophy vol. 7, 102-126 Abstract Boonin endorses reasoning that leads to what he calls the Implausible Conclusion regarding when future-directed choices that at first glance seem to i

Our board member Berit Högman is the new County Governor in Västernorrland County, Sweden from April 16. Her appointment as County Governor and Head of the County Administrative Board in the province

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.

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

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

Stefan Arora-Jonsson, Professor at the Department of Business Studies, Uppsala universitet ABSTRACTCompetition is a ubiquitous feature of modern society, perhaps more so now than ever before. While com

Welcome to Janine Wedel's inaugural lecture as a Kerstin Hesselgrens Visiting Professor: The Role of Elite Corruption in Today’s Illiberalism: Trump as “Trickster,” Why Trumpism is No Accident, and theThis talk, by social anthropologist and public policy professor Janine R. Wedel, examines how the activities of a novel breed of “shadow” or “influence elites” have helped corrode civic trust and fueled the surge in income inequality.  Partly as a result, many citizens in the United States and Europe (notably Poland and Hungary) have turned to demagogic figures who flout both the norms of the rigged system they seek to smash, and the Weltanschauung of the establishment. The talk will explore why people turn to them, Donald Trump’s role as “trickster,” and how Trump and other taboo-breaking, system-busting leaders govern once in power. 

Richard Bellamy, Professor of Political Science, UCL and Director of the Max Weber Programme, EUI. Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter. Abstract The muted popular support for, and certain faiI dispute this analysis. I argue that the EU’s role consists of supporting the democratic institutions of the member states, not least by enabling them to regulate their mutual interactions in non-dominating ways. From this perspective, the standard solution to the EU’s democratic deficit would create a domestic democratic deficit within each of the member states, one I contend democracy at the EU level would be unable to compensate for. Indeed, the current rise in Euro scepticism can be regarded as a product of this situation. By contrast, I suggest we conceive the EU as an association of democratic states, the decisions of which are under their joint and equal control. Drawing on the book, the talk will cover why such an arrangement is necessary, the norms that govern it, and the institutional framework required for it to work effectively and efficiently as well as equitably.