The increasingly prominent presence of private actors in Global Environmental Governance raises novel issues of legitimacy. This paper consequently observed a need to investigate the legitimacy of Private Environmental Governance (PEG) and aimed to do so in three ways. Firstly, this study conducted a normative analysis exploring what legitimacy should require in the context of PEG. This examinatio

The Swedish Democrats have changed the political landscape in the Swedish Parliament since they came into parliament in 2010. No other party has yet to declare a coalition for government with them during election campaigns. Several of the other parties claim they will do everything they can do stop the Swedish Democrats from gaining influence over the Swedish political setting, due to their nation

Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka kärnvapens laglighet under IHL, med särskilt fokus på fem för rättsområdet grundläggande principer. Världens stater har förklarat sig vara bundna av IHL:s generella principer och kärnvapenstaternas praxis har bekräftat att principerna har relevans för kärnvapenanvändning under väpnad konflikt. Det är emellertid omstritt exakt vilka och hur långtgående begrThe purpose of this essay is to examine the legality of nuclear weapons under international humanitarian law1, focusing on five selected principles of fundamental importance for the entire body of IHL. It is widely accepted that the general principles of IHL subject the deployment of force during armed conflict to restrictions. The states of the international community have willingly articulated

In this paper the normative argumentation against digital surveillance is the object for a critical review. The normative argumentation that has been the core of this paper have been reconstructed and assembled from several different sources. The common ground for the arguments has been the normative values: personal integrity, loss of democracy and social sorting. These arguments have then been

Political trust is crucial for well-functioning societies, but what happens to a high trust country as Sweden when people from other cultures move there? The aim of this thesis is to investigate whether political trust differs between domestically and foreign-born swedes. Furthermore, other factors that can generate political trust has been analyzed. The theoretical framework departs from Mishler

Osäkerhet över ett rättsfaktums existens kan lösas genom att en av parterna i en rättegång åläggs bevisbördan för detta faktum. Den svenska lagstiftaren har i de flesta fall överlämnat åt domstolarna att lösa bevisbördefrågan. I doktrin och praxis har det därför utvecklats olika teorier om hur bevisbördefrågan ska lösas. Eftersom bevisbördans placering kan bli avgörande för utgången i målet är detUncertainty over a dispositive fact can be solved by placing the burden of proof on one of the parties in the trial. In most cases, the Swedish legislature has handed over to the courts to resolve the burden of proof issue. In the doctrine and court practice, various theories have therefore been developed on how to solve the burden of proof issue. Since the placement of the burden of proof can be

Inför det svenska riksdagsvalet 2018 var ett av de mest debatterade ämnena brott och straff. Efter en tid av dödsskjutningar på öppen gata och med vittnen som inte vågade lämna sina iakttagelser på grund av risken för hämndaktioner ropades det från politiskt håll efter möjligheten till att avlägga vittnesmål anonymt som ett led i kampen mot den organiserade brottsligheten. Om inte utvecklingen hejPrior to the Swedish general election in 2018, one of the most debated topics was crime and punishment. After a time of shootings on open street and with witnesses who did not dare to leave their observations due to the risk of reprisals, political cry called for the possibility of conducting testimony anonymously as part of the fight against organized crime. Unless recent developments were ceased

Cultural integration is a special type of European integration that is generally neglected by the researchers but is slowly growing in importance. In this thesis, the process of cultural integration has been examined by analysing the cultural policies contained in the treaties and policy documents of the European Union as well as the political messages contained in the cultural projects realised w

Från att den svenska synen på avtalsförhållanden tidigare betonat parternas avtalsfrihet och starkt präglats av en restriktivitet mot att fylla ut avtal med förpliktelser som inte uttryckligen följer av dessa, har utvecklingen på avtalsrättens område gått emot en syn som snarare ser avtalsförhållandet som ett samarbetsförhållande än ett motpartsförhållande. Svenska avtalsparter har i takt med den The Swedish view of contractual relations has previously emphasized the parties’ contractual freedom and has been characterized by a restrictiveness towards imposing obligations on the parties beyond what expressly follows from the agreement. Development in the area of contract law has led to the contractual relationship being seen rather as a cooperative relationship than a counter-party relation

This essay deal with depoliticisation and politicisation in government policy. In 2016 a government delegation was appointed to investigate the situation in the Swedish welfare sector. The reason was the accumulation of critique against New Public Management methods used and the general perception that neither citizens nor welfare professionals was content with the situation. The delegation has is

This study sets out to analyze the problem representation in the Swedish official report SOU 2015:80. The study seeks to analyze what sort of understanding the policymakers have of the terms self-determination (självbestämmande) and mentally incompetent (beslutsoförmögen). Lastly the study will analyze what the lived effects of this policy may be for persons who are provided help and service by LS

Denna uppsats tar avstamp i det mediala tumultet som briserade under sommaren 2018 med anledning av låten "Knulla Barn", skriven och framförd av komikern Anton Magnussons fiktiva, satiriska humorkaraktär "Mr Cool". Denna låt föranledde en debatt om huruvida existensen av låtar om att våldta barn ska få existera eller inte. Det är mot bakgrund av denna debatt som jag bestämde miThis essay starts off with a report the medial commotion that burst during the summer of 2018. The commotion happened as a consequence of the song "Knulla Barn" , written and performed by the comedian Anton Magnusson's fictive, satirical comedy character "Mr Cool". This song caused a debate about whether songs about raping children should exist or not. It is because of this

I uppsatsen studeras de huvudsakliga instrumenten för biologisk mångfald i rättsakterna för EU:s gemensamma jordbrukspolitik (CAP). Syftet är att studera hur dessa instrument förhåller sig till de principiella förutsättningar som krävs för att den biologiska mångfalden i jordbrukslandskapen ska kunna bevaras. Dessa instrument utvärderas därför utifrån den sjunde av de så kallade Malawiprinciperna.In this thesis the main instruments for sustaining biodiversity in the legal acts of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) are studied. The aim is to study how these instruments relate to the basic prerequisites that are needed to protect biodiversity in the arable landscape. The instruments are therefore evaluated based on principle seven of the so-called Malawi Principles. The Malawi Princip

CICIG är en helt ny form av anti-korruptions institution som uppnått oväntade framgångar i Guatemala. De har legat bakom flera tunga brottsutredningar som bl.a. avsatt landets sittande president. Det unika med CICIG är att personalen kommer från utlandet och har befogenhet att utföra korruptionsutredningar i Guatemala. Forskningen har samtidigt varit kritisk till riktade anti-korruptionsinstitutio

En ny anställningsform som växt fram i digitaliseringens fotspår är arbete som utförs via digitala plattformar. Plattformsarbete är en del av en större pågående strukturell förändring, nämligen flexibiliseringen av arbetsmarknaden. Denna strukturella förändring gör att den nuvarande gränsen mellan arbetstagare och uppdragstagare suddas ut. Begreppet arbetstagare anger gränserna för arbetslagstiftnWork supplied through digital platforms is a new form of employment that has emerged in the course of digitalization. Platform work is part of a bigger ongoing structural shift, namely the flexibilisation of working life. This structural shift blurs out the distinction between an employee and a self-employed worker. The personal scope of Swedish labor law is defined by use of the notion of employe

Emerging scholarships on identity politics are challenging the traditional understanding of the relation between politics and identity; from politics shaping identity, to the other way around. The field has lately been successful in mapping out connection between identity and alliance formation, as well as demonstrating how identity shapes political attitudes and policy choices. Based on these fin

The purpose of this paper is to examine which cultural value that most often appear within the regional level of culture policy. These values are cultures intrinsic value and instrumentality. My materiel will consist of strategy documents in the form of regional culture plans, which works as planning documents to achieve certain goals. To investigate which value that appear the most, have I develo

Testamentet uppstod i Sverige på 1200-talet, som resultatet av kyrkligt inflytande. Testamentsrätten, som idag finns i ärvdabalken, har formats långsamt sedan dess. Först på 1930-talet fick testamentet sin nuvarande form i testamentslagen. Enligt gällande rätt utgörs ett ordinärt testamente av en skriftlig handling som undertecknats av testatorn och bevittnats av två vittnen. Vid nödfall eller sjuThe Swedish will first appeared in Sweden during the 13th century as a result of the church’s influence. The law of wills, a part of the Swedish inheritance code, is the result of an evolution extending from the 13th century into the 1930’s when the will was given its current form prescribed by law. An ordinary will requries a written document, signed by the testator and witnessed by two wittnesse

I svensk rätt saknas en rättslig förpliktelse att hjälpa nödställda. Genom garantläran är det dock möjligt att ålägga personer med handlingsplikt. Uppsatsen syftar till att undersöka vilka relationer som kan leda till garantställning och om garantläran med hänsyn till dagens familjebild är i behov av förändring. För att uppfylla uppsatsens syfte har rättsdogmatisk metod använts. Under 1960-taletIn Swedish law there is no legal obligation to assist people in need. Through the doctrine of omission responsibility (Swedish: garantläran) it is possible to impose an obligation to act. This essay will investigate which relations can lead to omission responsibility and whether the doctrine of omission responsibility needs to be reformed due to changes in family formation in today´s society. Du

I svensk rätt finns bestämmelser om skadebegräsning 70 § köplagen. Att bedöma huruvida denna skadebegränsningsplikt ska gälla också utomobligatoriskt har genom åren vållat rättsvetenskapsmännen vissa bekymmer. Denna framställning har till syfte att undersöka och klargöra innebörden av skadebegränsningsplikten i svensk rätt. Särskilt fokus ligger här på de lojalitetshänsyn som anses motivera skadebIn Swedish law there are provisions on mitigation in Section 70 of the Sale of Goods act. The assessment of whether this mitigation obligation should also apply non-contractually has caused legal scientists some concerns over the years. The purpose of this paper is to investigate and clarify the meaning of the obligation to mitigate your losses in Swedish law. Particular attention is given to the