Program:

• Katre Luhamaa: Child removal as a last resort – comparing the state’s support to families at risk in Europe’
• Jenny Krutzinna: Breaking the cycle: Towards solidarity with future mothers in care’ which focus on the solidarity aspect of the removal of newborn babies in eight European countries

Katre Luhamaa is researcher at the Center for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, and holds a Ph.D. in Law. Her field of expertise include Law and Legal Studies, Human Rights and Democracy, EU and European Studies, and Legal Theory. Her research focuses on international law, EU law and human rights, and in particular children’s rights.

Jenny Krutzinna is a researcher at the Center for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, and holds a Ph.D. in Bioethics and Biomedical Jurisprudence. Her main research interest is the role of well-being as justification in ethical and legal argumentation processes, especially in the context of raising and educating children.

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