Appointment of judges to the Norwegian Supreme Court: Safeguarding judicial independence in light of recent political attacks on the Polish judiciary

Judicial independence is under threat in several democracies, and statutory reforms frequently target appointment of Supreme Court judges. In NOU 2020: 11, the Norwegian Commission of the Courts addressed these issues but suggested only minor changes to the existing Norwegian appointment procedure. This thesis assesses whether the Commission’s recommendations are necessary and sufficient for safeguarding the independence of the Norwegian judiciary. The current Norwegian procedure is analysed in light of international and supranational obligations and functionally comparable aspects of Polish judicial appointments. Through a legal cultural approach, I address the implications of Norwegian and Polish history, judicial review, legal method, public confidence and judicial career for the suggested amendments to the Norwegian procedure. A recurring theme is the complex interplay between democratic legitimacy and judicial independence. Taking all these factors into consideration, it becomes evident that the Commission’s reluctance to blindly follow international recommendations to increase judicial autonomy seems well-founded and indeed sensible.MasteroppgaveJUS399MAJURMAJUR-

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'Ressursorientert tilnærming til språklig og kulturelt mangfold': Diskursive lesninger av inkludering i barnehagen

This article critically questions how contemporary multicultural pedagogical work for inclusion in Norwegian children’s centers is described in government documents. We find in these documents that what is named as a discursive ‘resource-oriented approach to cultural diversity’ is presented as a strategy to understand how to work and analyse multicultural pedagogical issues. As preschool teachers and researchers our interest is to investigate how and why a resource-oriented approach today seems to have become part of preschool teachers’ normative multicultural work for inclusion. By analysing official early childhood documents discursively we question what effects a resource-oriented approach may have on professional multicultural knowledge production

Researching the assemblage of cultural diversity in Norway: Challenging simplistic research approaches

This article’s point of departure is practicing an(other) methodology than those that are dominant within educational research in Norway. Dominant research can ‘rely on the authority and normativity of methods to produce knowledge devoid of critical reflection and contextual consideration’ (Koro-Ljungberg & Mazzei, 2012, p. 728). Koro-Lungberg (2012) calls this the politics of simplification (p. 809), which is powerful through its control of qualitative research. The authors try to poke holes in this scheme of representation regarding cultural diversity by installing themselves in agentic realist positions with a piece of data – a snapshot of an Internet Web page. To think otherwise about cultural diversity, the authors ‘thinkfeel’ (Lenz Taguchi & Palmer, in press) and are on the ‘lookout’ (Boutang, 2011) for events and transformative moments (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987) around the folding of the assemblage of cultural diversity in Norway. Inspired by Lather (2012), we try ‘to live’ the data in new ways