Program:
- Marius Emberland: Human Rights and Child Welfare
Marius Emberland is a lawyer with the Attorney General’s office, where he has special responsibility for international law and human rights. He is the Norwegian Government’s permanent legal representative (agent) for the European Court of Human Rights and the UN Human Rights Committee. He has conducted a number of cases before the Supreme Court and the EFTA Court, and has been a member of several public committees. In recent years, Emberland has responded to EMD on behalf of Norway in several child welfare cases.
The seminar is a collaboration between the Research Group Law, Democracy and Welfare at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Center for Research on Discretion and Paternalism at the Department of Administration and Organization Theory at the University of Bergen, and the Center for Law and Social Transformation at the University of Bergen / CMI.
Contact: hege.helland@uib.no