Professor Jill Marshall is in western Norway in October 2024 as visiting fellow at the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism at the Dept of Government, University of Bergen. The Centre is headed by Professor Marit Skivenes with researchers working on large scale social science projects particularly focused on children’s rights, protection and welfare in Norway, other European countries, and beyond.
At the Centre in Bergen, Jill is continuing her research on personal autonomy and identity development at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Her work includes considering implications on children’s lives of the ECtHR’s existing interpretations of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights which guarantees a right to respect for one’s private life.
As part of her new research while based at the Centre, Jill has been examining case law on access to information for children on same sex relationships, on wearing the Islamic headscarf in schools, and on access to identity documents and birth registration. A child’s human right to personal identity has largely been framed around the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child’s focus on origins and identity documents. Jill explores identity as developmental and ongoing from birth in social conditions requiring care, dependence, relationships with others, and tolerance.
Jill presents her new work at the RDV seminar at Bergen Global at the University of Bergen on 17 October 2024. She previously presented related work in January 2024 also as part of the seminar series and is delighted to be back as part of her visiting fellowship with the university.
This seminar series is interdisciplinary with national and international researchers being invited to talk about their pioneering research on topics regarding law, democracy, and welfare. The webinars are open for all. The webinars are held monthly on selected Thursdays, from 14:15-15:30 (CET / GMT+1).
The RDV-webinar series focuses on a broad range of topics related to the state and its citizens, and especially the exercise of state power and how it is justified. Important questions include how legal strategies are used as political tools (lawfare) to advance human rights and sustainable development goals. The agenda includes discussions about the normative foundations of the welfare state, discretion in the judiciary and frontline professionals in welfare states, the role and impact of paternalism, and the backlash against established democratic rights and institutions across the globe.
The RDV-webinar series is a collaboration between the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism and the Centre on Law and Social Transformation at the University of Bergen in western Norway. See further details at RDV-webinar series – CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON DISCRETION AND PATERNALISM (uib.no)
