In a foreseeable future we can expect increased precipitation, raised sea levels and flooding in northern Europe. Casual commuting might more frequently include dealing with heavy sky fall, flooded streets and soaking wet clothes. But as we say in Sweden ”Any weather is tolerable as long as you have the right clothes”. Tretorn is a brand that truly knows bad weather. They have a long heritage

In Swedish cultural policy the inclusion of all citizens into culture is repeatedly put forward as an integral part of cultural policy. In this essay I have studied how the identities of citizens are created in municipal cultural policy documents by being constituted as in need of inclusion. I have used Mouffe and Laclau´s discourse theory to examine the creation of identities through subject posi

Humanitära interventioner är ett väl debatterat ämne inom internationell rätt. Det är ett ämne som väcker stora känslor och diskussioner bland jurister samt inom och emellan stater världen över. När det gäller legaliteten av humanitära interventioner finns det mycket material att tillgå, dock övergår diskussionen sällan i det som egentligen är viktigast: Borde humanitära interventioner vara lagligHumanitarian interventions is a well debated subject within international law. When it comes to the legality of humanitarian interventions the international community is divided and a lot of material regarding such interventions can be found. Unfortunately, the discussion rarely turns to the more important question: Should humanitarian interventions be legal under contemporary international law? T

Digitalization of education is an ongoing global policy trend that involves actors from both the public and the private domain. However, there is a lack of research regarding how the schools relate to the actors and how they influence the education. This thesis investigates how the National Digitalization Strategy for the School Sector opens for external actors to influence the implementation proc

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