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An inconvenient dissident: human rights activism in the case of Julian Assange
The article is based on investigations by two branches of the United Nations Human Rights Council into the treatment of the whistleblower journalist, Julian Assange – the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. The UN investigations analysed for this ‘Acting Up’ article show that Julian Assange is an inconvenient dissident, who has been subjected to persecution by liberal democracies rather than authoritarian regimes. Previous research into whistleblowing has highlighted the courage and risks taken by individual whistleblowers in speaking truth to power however, this case highlights a different facet of speaking truth to power which shows how lawyers, activists and other professionals often refuse to do this because of the professional costs of speaking up for an apparently toxic individual. This article argues that the UN investigations have built a ‘counter-archive’ of suppressed facts about the case, which challenges the ‘collective amnesia’ of the public discourse. This case demonstrates that speaking truth to power requires not only individual courage but the active support of inconvenient dissidents, who lack other civil society support
The Centre Reasserting Itself: From fragmentation to transformation of international law
Jurisdiction, Procedure and the Transformation of International Law: From Nottebohm to Diallo in the ICJ
Ansvar for uautoriserte betalingstransaksjoner ved forsettlig pliktbrudd
Tema for denne avhandlingen er ansvarsfordelingen for tap som oppstår som følge av uautoriserte betalingstransaksjoner etter finansavtaleloven § 35, jfr. § 34. De fleste betalingstransaksjoner i Norge i dag gjennomføres ved bruk av elektroniske løsninger og tjenester. For å kunne gjennomføre slike betalingstransaksjoner vil brukeren typisk enten betale med kort eller i nettbanken. Tidvis blir betalingsinstrumenter misbrukt til å gjennomføre betalingstransaksjoner som kontoeieren ikke har samtykket til. Ofte er det ikke mulig å stille den som har misbrukt betalingsinstrumentet til ansvar. Dermed oppstår et spørsmål om ansvarsfordeling av tapet