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MA course “International Investment Law and Sustainability”

We invite you to join Joanna Lam and Hersh Sewak in the spring semester 2023 for the course on International Investment Law and Sustainability. Course registration is open now.

CILG researcher becomes co-director of COPE

On the 1st of November 2022, Associate Professor Beatriz Martinez Romera became co-director of the Copenhagen Center for Disaster Research (COPE).

New research project shall improve conditions for rape victims

With the new sexual consent act, the legal system faces a transition that shall provide rape victims with better treatment and protection of their rights. A new interdisciplinary collaboration funded by the Victims Fund…

Refugee Participation without Refugee Politics

Historically, UNHCR and the rest of the refugee regime has not viewed restoring the political rights of refugees as their business. Today, whilst humanitarian organisations are still staying away from the language of…

Professor Helle Porsdam på videnskab.dk (In Danish)

Professor Helle Porsdam skriver om adgangen til videnskaben som en menneskerettighed

Explainable Legal Case-Based Reasoning (XL- CBR) in Asylum Adjudication: Evidential Analysis and AI Prediction

Designing explainable AI solutions for use in asylum adjudication requires research teams to adopt the methods and techniques most suited to the data and the overarching task.

Agata Karbowska

Climate change litigation against states, with a focus on European Human Rights.

Anna Møller Pedersen

Climate change litigation against states, with a focus on European Human Rights.

Emilie Jane Coutin

Current targets for mobilisation of climate finance as set by the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Low-Intensity Cyber Operations and State Sovereignty in Cyberspace

This CMS Report compares and assesses three very different positions concerning whether low-intensity cyber operations violate the sovereignty of the territorial state. The report is authored by Professor Kevin Jon…

New CMS Report: Low-Intensity Cyber Operations and State Sovereignty in Cyberspace

CMS has published the report "Low-intensity cyber operations and state sovereignty in cyberspace” and an accompanying (Danish) memo. The report is authored by Professor Kevin Jon Heller (CMS).

Olesea Gadirca

The Energy Communities - seen through the legal lens.

Robert William Brew

The inclusion of provisions promoting the development and usage of renewable energy into modern trade agreements

New PRIVACY article published: 'Heinrich Hahn (1605-1668), A Portrait of a Lutheran Jurist at the University of Helmstedt'

The article is based on a cross-disciplinary collaboration between Privacy researchers Paolo Astorri and Søren Frank Jensen. Find the article here. The article is published in the journal Zeitschrift der…

Mette Birkedal Bruun speaks at the leadership retreat of the International Association of Privacy Professionals

On 22 June Centre Director Mette Birkedal Bruun gave a lecture in the session Privacy and Faith at the annual leadership retreat of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)

Querying into Data in Asylum Decisionmaking, Authors: William Hamilton Byrne, Thomas Gammeltoft Hansen and Henrik Palmer Olsen

This research reveals the full extent of interconnections and entanglement of the European Court of Human Rights’ migration jurisprudence, using cutting-edge legal research technology of citation network analysis.

Free movement? New Centre of Excellence examines global mobility rights

A new national Centre of Excellence in law will examine the complex legal structures that govern how we, as humans, move or are prevented from moving across national borders and parts of the world. The new centre will…

Anna Jupp

Climate change litigation against corporations, with a focus on the role of human rights

Ida Isaksen

Climate change interferences with the right to life

Jørgen Nyberget

The international regulation of plastic pollution

New project maps illegal mining and global environmental crime

With a grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark, researchers from the UCPH will study how minerals are irregularly mined in Ghana and end up in technological products, only to return and dumped as e-waste.

Querying into Data in Asylum Decision-making, Author: Trine Rask Nielsen

In this blogpost examples are given from the DATA4ALL project on the weekly ‘data crunching’ sessions. The sessions have been set up as an important step towards querying into data from asylum cases.

Mapping the Danish asylum procedure, Author: Anna Høgenhaug

This blog post examines the approach to refugee status determination in Denmark, giving the reader a visual overview of the entire process, step-by-step.

Testing out NLP on the public Danish asylum database, Author: Panagiota Katsikouli

In this blogpost examples are given of information that has been extracted from decisions of the Refugee Appeals Board using natural language processing (NLP).