Malcolm Langford

University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law

Professor

P.O. Box 6706 St. Olavs plass

N-0130 Oslo

Norway

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1.

The Justiciability of Social and Economic Rights: An Updated Appraisal

CHRGJ Working Paper No. 15
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 19 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2010
Aoife Nolan, Bruce Porter and Malcolm Langford
University of Nottingham - School of Law, Social Rights Advocacy Centre and University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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Economic and Social Rights, Human Rights, Justiciability, Judicial Review, Progressive Realisation, Retrogressive measures, Minimum Core

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The Revolving Door in International Investment Arbitration

Journal of International Economic Law, 2017, 0, 1-28 (open access)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 02 Jun 2017
Malcolm Langford, Daniel Behn and Runar Lie
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law, Queen Mary University of London and Pluricourts
Downloads 1,186 (37,279)
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investment arbitration, social network analysis, international investment law, arbitrator, legal counsel, double-hatting, legitimacy, ICSID

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The Ethics and Empirics of Double Hatting

ESIL Reflection Vol. 6 No. 7
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 27 Jul 2017
Malcolm Langford, Daniel Behn and Runar Lie
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law, Queen Mary University of London and Pluricourts
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Lost in Transformation? The Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals

Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 30, No. 2 (2016), pp. 167-176., PluriCourts Research Paper No. 16-03
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 27 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2016
Malcolm Langford
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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International Development, SDGs, politics, human rights, international relations, indicators

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The Nordic Human Rights Paradox: Moving Beyond Exceptionalism

University of Oslo Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2013-25
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2015
Malcolm Langford and Johan Karlsson Schaffer
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law and University of Gothenburg - School of Global Studies
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human rights, Nordic states, foreign policy, exceptionalism, constitutionalism

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Managing Backlash: The Evolving Investment Treaty Arbitrator?

European Journal of International Law, Forthcoming , PluriCourts Research Paper No. 16-14
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 08 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2016
Malcolm Langford and Daniel Behn
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law and Queen Mary University of London
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Backlash and State Strategies in International Investment Law

PluriCourts Research Paper No. 15-12, T. Gammeltoft-Hansen and T. Aalberts (eds.), The Changing Practices of International Law: Sovereignty, Law and Politics in a Globalising World, Cambridge University Press, 2017, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 17 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 31 May 2017
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law, Queen Mary University of London and Fridtjof Nansen InstituteDepartment of Public and International Law
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Legitimacy, Investment Treaty Arbitration, International Investment Regime

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Revisiting Joslin v. New Zealand: Same-Sex Marriage in Polarised Times

E. Brems and E. Desmet, Integrated Human Rights in Practice: Rewriting Human Rights Decisions (Edward Elgar, 2017)., University of Oslo Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2017-12
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 08 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2017
Malcolm Langford
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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Poor States or Poor Governance? Explaining Outcomes in Investment Treaty Arbitration

Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business (2017, Forthcoming), PluriCourts Research Paper No. 17‐05
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 02 Jun 2017
Daniel Behn, Tarald Laudal Berge and Malcolm Langford
Queen Mary University of London, University of Oslo, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science and University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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investment arbitration; international investment law; legitimacy; developing states; quality of governance

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Art or Science? Synthesising Lessons from Public Interest Litigation and the Dangers of Legal Determinism

South African Journal on Human Rights Vol. 27, pp. 39-64, 2011
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 18 Oct 2012
Malcolm Langford and Jackie Dugard
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law and University of the Witwatersrand
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Interdisciplinarity and Multimethod Research

Forthcoming in B.A. Andreassen, H.O. Sano and S. McIernet-Lankford, Human Rights Research Methods, (Edward Elgar, 2017), Ch. 8 , University of Oslo Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2016-30
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 25 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 09 May 2018
Malcolm Langford
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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Interdisciplinarity; Methods; Human Rights

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Domestic Adjudication and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Socio-Legal Review

Sur International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 6, No. 11, December 2009
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 13 Nov 2010
Malcolm Langford
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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Social rights, Justiciability, Impact, Litigation strategy

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Rights, Development and Critical Modernity

Development and Change (2015), 46(4), 777-802.
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 19 Aug 2015
Malcolm Langford
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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An Unlikely Rights Evolution: Legal Mobilization in Scandinavia Since the 1970s

Forthcoming in Nordic Journal of Human Rights, iCourts Working Paper Series No. 332,
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 16 Jul 2023
University of Gothenburg - School of Global Studies, University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law and University of Copenhagen - iCourts - Centre of Excellence for International Courts
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The Scandinavian Rights Revolution: Courts, Rights and Legal Mobilization Since the 1970s

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 12 Jun 2019
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law, University of Copenhagen - iCourts - Centre of Excellence for International Courts and University of Gothenburg - School of Global Studies
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legal mobilization, strategic litigation, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, legal opportunity, European Convention on Human Rights

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The GDPR and Unstructured Data: Is Anonymization Possible?

International Data Privacy Law, 2022; ipac008, https://doi.org/10.1093/idpl/ipac008
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 03 May 2022
OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University, Norwegian Computing Center, University of Bergen - Faculty of Law and University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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Glass Ceilings and Arbitral Dealings: Explaining the Gender Gap in International Investment Arbitration

PluriCourts Research Paper
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Mar 2021
Taylor St John, Daniel Behn, Malcolm Langford and Runar Lie
University of St Andrews, Queen Mary University of London, University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law and Pluricourts
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investor–state dispute settlement; international investment law; arbitration

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Why Judicial Review?

Oslo Law Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 36-85, 2015
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 04 Jul 2015
Malcolm Langford
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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The New Apologists: The International Court of Justice and Human Rights

Retfærd, vol. 48, No. 1, pp. 49-78
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 07 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2015
Malcolm Langford
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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International Court of Justice, Human Rights, International Law, Realism, Institutionalism, Judicial Independence, Adjudicative Responsiveness, Effectiveness

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The Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Commentary

Pretoria University Law Press, 2016
Number of pages: 403 Posted: 07 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2021
Malcolm Langford, Bruce Porter, Rebecca Brown and Julieta Ross
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law, Social Rights Advocacy Centre, International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) and National University of Lanús
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Compliance Politics and International Investment Disputes: A New Dataset

Forthcoming in the Journal of International Economic Law
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 05 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2023
Pluricourts, Pluricourts, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, University of Oslo - Department of Public and International Law, University of St Andrews, University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law, University of Oxford - Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oslo - Department of Public and International Law, Geneva Graduate Institute, University of Oslo - Department of Public and International Law, University of Copenhagen - Centre for Private Governance (CEPRI), University of Oslo - Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science, PluriCourts, University of OsloPluriCourts, University of Oslo - Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Oslo - Department of Public and International Law, Pluricourts and University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), School of Law
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investor-state dispute settlement, international investment law, compliance, empirical legal studies

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The Toonen Decision: Domestic and International Impact

Forthcoming in International Lawfare & Sexual and Reproductive Rights (edited by Siri Gloppen and Malcolm Langford)
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 03 Nov 2017
Malcolm Langford and Cosette D. Creamer
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Department of Political Science
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UNCITRAL and Investment Arbitration Reform: Matching Concerns and Solutions

Journal of World Investment &Trade, Vol. 21, Nos. 2-3, pp. 167-187 (2020), PluriCourts Research Paper
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 07 Jun 2021
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), University of Geneva, Faculty of Law and Queen Mary University of London
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The Art of the Impossible: Measurement Choices and the Post-2015 Development Agenda

University of Oslo Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2013-24
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 30 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2013
Malcolm Langford
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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International Courts and Public Opinion

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 28 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2018
Malcolm Langford
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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The Turn to Metrics

Nordic Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 30, No. 3 (2012), pp. 222-238, University of Oslo Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2013-22
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 02 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2013
Malcolm Langford and Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law and The New School
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Economic and Social Rights

DS Law, H. Lau, & A. Schwartz (eds.). Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Asia. Oxford University Press, Ch. 48, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 04 Jun 2020
Malcolm Langford and Evan Rosevear
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law and University of Southampton
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Constitutional Rights and Social Exclusion in Nepal

International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, Vol. 18, pp. 387–411, 2011
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 06 Mar 2012
Malcolm Langford and Ananda Bhattarai
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Nepal, constitution, socio-economic rights, equality, justiciability

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Bursting Policy Bubbles: The International Investment Treaty Regime

PluriCourts Research Paper No. 15-15
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 17 Dec 2015
Queen Mary University of London, Fridtjof Nansen InstituteDepartment of Public and International Law and University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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Policy Bubbles, International Investment Agreements, Investment Treaty Arbitration

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The View from Elsewhere: Scandinavian Penal Practices and International Critique

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 08 Jan 2018
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo - Department of Public and International Law, University of Gothenburg - School of Global Studies and University of Oslo - Norwegian Centre for Human Rights
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Detention, Concluding Observations, United Nations Treaty Bodies, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Committee Against Torture, European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, Monitoring

30.

Identity Theft

In Mareille Kaufmann and Heidi Lomell (ed.) Digital Criminology (De Gruyer, 2024).
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 09 May 2024
Malcolm Langford, Amelia Svensson and Tone Linn Waerstad
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law, National ID Centre and University of Oslo
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Identity Theft, Digital Victimisation, Identity Fraud, Routine Activity Theory, Relational Cybercrime

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Compliance with the Convention Against Torture: Testing Nordic Exceptionalism

University of Oslo Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2015-13
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 27 Mar 2015
University of Oslo - Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law and University of Gothenburg - School of Global Studies
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Convention against Torture, Concluding Observations, Nordic states, exceptionalism, definition of torture in national law, detention

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Bargaining in the Shadow of Awards

Forthcoming in the European Journal of International Law (2024) 
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 07 Dec 2023
University of St Andrews, University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Pluricourts, University of Oslo, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Political Science and European University Institute - Department of Law (LAW)
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compliance, international investment law, investor-state dispute settlement, international courts and tribunals, enforcement

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A Distorted Metric: The MDGs and State Capacity

University of Oslo Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2013-10
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 14 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2013
Edward Anderson and Malcolm Langford
University of East Anglia - School of International Development and University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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Cosmopolitan Competition: The Case of International Investment

Cecilia Bailliet and Katja Aas, Cosmopolitan and its Discontents (London: Routledge, 2011), pp. 178-204
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 20 Oct 2012
Malcolm Langford
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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The Three Worlds of Systems Theory

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 Nov 2024
Malcolm Langford
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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complexity, general systems theory, system dynamics, complex adaptive systems, legal systems, systems thinking, experimental governance

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The Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform Process: Design, Dilemmas and Discontents

14 J. Int'l Dispute Settlement 127 (2023), U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 23-039
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 10 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2023
Julian Arato, Kathleen Claussen and Malcolm Langford
University of Michigan Law School, Georgetown University Law Center and University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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investor-state dispute settlement, reform, UNCITRAL Working Group, institutional design

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Taming the Digital Leviathan: Automated Decision-Making and International Human Rights

American Journal of International Law - Unbound, Vol. 114, pp. 141-146, 2020
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 17 Jun 2020
Malcolm Langford
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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The Rise of Electoral Management Bodies: Diffusion and Effects

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 22 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2021
Malcolm Langford, Rebecca Schiel and Bruce M. Wilson
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law, School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs at the University of Central Florida and University of Central Florida
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Electoral Management Bodies, Elections, Democracy, Autonomy, Capacity

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The Commitment Curve: Global Regulation of Business and Human Rights

Journal of Business and Human Rights, Vol. 3. No. 2, pp. 157-185, 2018, University of Oslo Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2018-27, PluriCourts Research Paper No. 18-03
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 05 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2021
Tori Loven Kirkebø and Malcolm Langford
Pluricourts and University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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Another Rip in the Arbitration Veil? Transparency in the Wake of Forresti and Giovanna

University of Oslo Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 2013-08
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 24 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2013
Malcolm Langford
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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Norwegian Lawyers and Political Mobilization: 1623-2015

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 06 Jun 2016
Malcolm Langford
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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A Poverty of Rights: Six Ways to Fix the MDGs

IDS Bulletin, Vol 41, No. 1 (2010), 83-91
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 20 Jun 2013
Malcolm Langford
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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Do I Belong in Law School? The Role of Academic and Social Climate

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 06 Mar 2024 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2024
University of Oslo - Department of Geosciences, University of Bergen - Department of Biological Sciences, University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, Students and University of Oslo
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sense of belonging - higher education - legal education - academic climate - structural equation models - ChatGPT

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Teachers' Agency and Online Teaching in Times of Crisis

Computers in Human Behavior, Vol 121 August (2021) 106793
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 07 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2021
Crina Damsa, Malcolm Langford, Dan Uehara and Ronny Scherer
University of Oslo - Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo - Department of Geosciences and University of Oslo - Department of Geosciences
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Ground-Breaking? An Empirical Assessment of the Draft Business and Human Rights Treaty

American Journal of International Law (AJIL) - Unbound (2020), PluriCourts Research Paper
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 11 Aug 2020
Tori Loven Kirkebø and Malcolm Langford
Pluricourts and University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law
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Clinical Legal Education in Norway

Jeff Giddings (ed.) Global Clinical Legal Education (Routledge, 2024)
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 05 Jun 2024
Malcolm Langford, Dan Uehara and Tone Linn Waerstad
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo - Department of Geosciences and University of Oslo
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Critiques of Human Rights

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 14, pp. 69-89, 2018
Posted: 29 Oct 2018
Malcolm Langford
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law

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A Sort of Homecoming: Extraterritorial Obligations and the Right to Housing

UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND EXTRATERRITORIAL OBLIGATIONS, Mark Gibney, Sigrun Skogly, eds., University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009, pp. 166-193
Posted: 10 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2013
Malcolm Langford
University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law

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