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Sigrun Skogly
Professor of Human Rights Law
Department: Law
Degree: BA (Oslo), LL.M (Essex), Ph.D (Dr. Juris) (Oslo)
Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Law and Society, Human Rights Forum, International, European and Comparative Law , International Human Rights Obligations Network (IntHRON)
Current Teaching
- Public International Law
- International Dispute Settlement
- International Human Rights Law
Research Interests
Career Details:
Sigrun Skogly received her first degrees from the University of Oslo , and College of Europe in Bruges. She graduated from the University of Essex with an LL.M in International Human Rights Law in 1988. Her Doctoral Degree is from the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo . Her doctoral dissertation studied the human rights obligations of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund from a public international law perspective. She has worked for research institutions and non-government organisations in the fields of human rights and development in the United States , Norway and elsewhere in Europe. She currently holds a Visiting Professorship at University College Buskerud, Norway.
Sigrun has taken the initiative to create a Human Rights Forum on campus, and is the Coordinator for the International Human Rights Obligations Network (IntHRON). She is member of the Steering Committee for the International Consoritum on Extraterritorial Obligations pertaining to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
Research Interests
International Law, International Human Rights Law - in particular human rights obligations and economic, social and cultural rights, Law of International Institutions.
Publications
Books
Universal Human Rights and Extraterritorial Obligations, Mark Gibney and Sigrun Skogly (eds.) University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010; 256 pages; ISBN 978-0-8122-4215-7
Beyond National Borders: States' Human Rights Obligations in their International Cooperation Antwerp , Intersentia, 2006, 222 pages. ISBN 90-5095-434-0
The Human Rights Obligations of the World Bank and the IMF, London , Cavendish Publishing, 2001. 225 pages. ISBN 1 85941 665 9
Selected Articles
"Causality and Extra-territorial Human Rights Obligations" in Global Justice, State Duties: The Extra-Territorial Scope of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in International Law; Edited by Malcolm Langford, Martin Scheinin, Wouter Vandenhole and Willem van Genugten; Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2011
"The Role of the International Financial Institutions in the Process of a Rights Based Approach to Development", with Emilie Secker, in Andreassen and Marks (ed.s) Development as a Human Right: Legal, Political and Economic Dimensions, Antwerp, Intersentia, 2010; ISBN 978-94-000-0022-3, pages 353-380.
"Universal Human Rights without Universal Obligations?", in Joseph, Sarah and Adam McBeth (eds.) International Human Rights: A Research Handbook, Edward Elgar,2010; ISBN 978-1-84720-168-7 pages 71-96.
"The Human Right to Adequate Food and to Clean and Sufficient Water", with Amanda Cahill, in van Bueren, Geraldine Freedom from Poverty, Paris, UNESCO,2010, pages 113- 138
"Global Responsibility for Human Rights", Review Article, Vol. 29, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2009, 21 pages. ISSN 0143-6503,
"Right to Food: National Implementation and Extraterritorial Obligations", Vol. 11, Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law. 2007; pages 339-358. ISSN 1389-4633
"Economic Rights and Extraterritorial Obligations", with Mark Gibney. in Minkler, Lance (ed.), Economic Rights: Conceptual, Measurement, And Policy Issues,Cambridge University Press, 2007.
"The role of the international financial institutions in a rights-based approach to the process of development".In B.A. Andreassen et.al The Right to Development and Human Rights in Development , Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2006
"The Bretton Woods' Institutions: Have Human Rights Come in from the Cold",in Windfuhr, Michael (ed.) Beyond the Nation State: Human Rights in Times of Globalization, Uppsala, Global Publication Foundation, 2005, p. 155 - 167.
"The Obligations of International Assistance and Cooperation in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights", in Bergsmo, Morten (ed.) Human Rights and Criminal Justice for the Downtrodden: Essays in Honour of Asbjorn Eide, Dordrecht, Kluwer Law International, 2003, p. 403 - 420
"The Human Rights Obligations of the World Bank and the IMF", in Genugten, Willen van, Paul Hunt and Susan Marks (eds.) World Bank, IMF and Human Rights , Nijmegen, Wolf Legal Publishers, 2003. Pages 45 - 78.
"Transnational Human Rights obligations", co-authored with Mark Gibney. Human Rights Quarterly , Vol.23, no.3, 2002
"Is there a right not to be poor?", Human Rights Law Review , Vol. 2, no. 1, 2002
"Crimes Against Humanity - revisited: Is there a role for economic and social rights?" International Journal of Human Rights , 1, 2001. P.58 - 80
"Economic and Social Human Rights, Private Actors and international Obligations", in Human Rights Standards and the responsibility of Transnational Corporations , ed. Michael K. Addo (Kluwer Law International, 1999), 239-258.
"The Position of the World Bank and the international Monetary Fund in the Human Rights Field, in International Protection of Human Rights, eds. Hanski, Raija & Markku Suksi (Turku/Abo, Institute for Human Rights, Abo Akademi, 1999), 231-251.
"Article 2", in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Common Standard of Achievement , eds. G. Alfredsson & A. Eide (Kluwer Law International, 1999), 75-87.
"Complexities in human rights protection: actors and rights involved in the Ogoni conflict in Nigeria ." Netherlands Quarterly on Human Rights , 1997, 1, 47-60.
"The Role of International NGOs in Promoting Nutrition Rights". Food Policy , 1996, 21,(1), 111-123
Potential Doctoral Proposals
- Public international law
- International Human Rights Law
- Economic, social and cultural rights
- International human rights obligations
- Extraterritorial human rights obligations
- International institutional law
Current or recent topics covered in PhD supervision:
- The Right to Water as a Human Right
- The Implementability of the Right to Water
- Foreign Direct Investment and Human Rights
- WTO, Human Rights and the Right to Health in Thailand
- The Right to Participation in Human Rights
- Indigenous Peoples and International Law
- Language rights of immigrant minorities
- International law, internal conflict and the duty to protect
- The right to development and poverty
- Trafficing in women in international law and the United Arab Emerets
- Economic variables and the right to social security
- Rights of Women in Pakistan
- Discrimination in the right to education - experience from a European settting
Collaboration with research users
Member of the editorial boards of Human Rights Law Review and Nordic Journal of Human Rights
Member of the Steering Committee of the International Consortium of NGOs and Academic Institutions on States' Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations, 2007 - present
Member of the AHRC Peer Review College - 2009 - present
President of FIAN International (Human Rights Organisation on the Right to Food) - 2006 - 2008
An Expert Seminar was organised with the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights around her work on "Extraterritorial human rights obligations in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights", Geneva, April 2005.
Chair of the Board of the Oxford based company Rights and Accountability in Development (2003-2006).
Consultancy work for the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2001-2002) on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty.
Consultancy work for the International Council for Human Rights Policy (2002) on human rights obligations in relationship to international assistance and cooperation and economic, social and cultural rights.
Presented her work on the IMF and the World Bank to the World Bank's Lawyers' Forum, 2001
Conference and seminar papers
Selected conference participation:
Presented the 4th Volume of Freedom from Poverty and Human Rights: Law's Duty to the Poor, at launch at the UN Human Rights Council, Geneva, 9 June 2010. Conference organiser: UNESCO.
"Extraterritorial Obligations in the Context of Land-Grabbing", paper presented at the conference "The Global Land Grab and Human Rights", organised by The Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Programme, the Graduate Institute, Geneva and 3D, Geneva, 16 May 2009
"Violations from abroad? The role of foreign states and transnational corporations in abuses of indigenous peoples' rights", Paper presented at University of Liverpool, 31 Janaury 2009
"How Relevant is Robin Hood? The Human Right to Health in a Global Perspective", paper presented at Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, 23 November 2008
"State Responsibility, Causality and Transnational Human Rights Obligations", paper presented at the ESF-Exploratory Workshop on Transnational Human Rights Obligations in the Field of Economic,Social and Cultural Rights, Tilburg University 24-26 January 2008
"States and their obligations in a globalised world", Keynote speech at "Human Rights without Borders - What are Obligations for Germany?", conference organised by Bread for the World, Eed, and FIAN, Berlin, 9 November 2006
"Extraterritorial obligations and the national implementation of the right to food", paper presented at the Expert Seminar on National Implementation of the Right to Food, organised by the Max Plank Institute for Comparative and International Law; the FAO; and FIAN International; Heidelberg, September 11-12, 2006. Invited
"Economic Rights and Extraterritorial Obligations", paper presented (with Prof. Mark Gibney) at the conference Economic Rights: Conceptual, Measurement, And Policy Issues, at the Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut, October 27th-29th 2005
"International Assistance and Cooperation and an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights", paper presented at the High Level Experts Seminar on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Organised by the French Foreign Office, Nantes, 5-7 September 2005. Invited.
"Economic Development, Financial Resources, Market Systems: A Right to Adequate Food Approach" paper presented at the International Workshop: Policies Against Hunger IV: Implementing the Voluntary Guidelines. Organised by the German Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Nutrition and Agriculture, Berlin 14 - 16 June 2005. Invited
"Implementation of the Millennium Goals: Human Rights Obligations of Wealthy Countries", paper presented at the conference UN Millennium Goals and Human Rights, organised by Rights & Democracy, Ottawa, 8-9 June 2005. Invited
"Extraterritorial human rights obligations in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights", Paper presented at Expert Seminar at the Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, April 2005. Invited
"The role of the international financial institutions in a rights-based approach to the process of development". Paper presented at the Nobel Symposium, Oslo, October 13 - 15, 2003. Invited
"Human Rights at Home or Abroad? - States' operations through International Institutions", paper presented at the international conference entitled "Global Governance and the Search for Justice", organised by Sheffield University, Department of Law, April 29 - May 1, 2003.
"The duty to co-operate internationally through international institutions." Conference entitled "International states' obligations under economic, social and cultural rights", organised by FIAN-Germany, 4 April 2003. Invited
"The Right to Development: Accountability for Whom?" >Paper presented at the Finish Institute of Human Rights, Turku, Finland, on the occasion of the annual meeting of European Human Rights Institute, May 22-24, 2002. Invited
"The Human Rights Obligations of the World Bank and the IMF", paper presented at the conference on "World Bank, IMF and Human Rights", organised by Globus, Institute for Globalisation and Sustainable Development of Tilburg University, CEDAR (Centre for Dignity and Rights) and the Netherlands School of Human Rights Research, 11-13 October 2001. Invited
"The European Fundamental Charter in light of European and International Human Rights", paper presented at the European Communities Studies Association's Biennial Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, 31 May - 2 June, 2001
"Poverty and Human Rights: a critical assessment of the UN initiatives", paper presented at the World Bank Lawyers' Forum, Washington DC., 16-17 May, 2001. Invited
Selected Speaking invitations:
"Violations from abroad? The role of foreign states and transnational corporations in abuses of indigenous peoples' rights", paper presented at University of Liverpool, 30 January 2009
"Complicity or Impunity: States' responsibility for the human rights effects of their foreign policy", paper presented at Queens University, Belfast, 26 February 2008
"The World Bank, the IMF and Human Rights" paper presented at University of Nottingham, 20 March 2006
Lectures given over two days at the European Union's Master Programme in Human Rights and Democracy, Venice, 20-21 October 2004
"Beyond National Borders: States' Extra-territorial Human Rights Obligations", paper presented at University of Essex, Centre for Human Rights, 19 February 2003
"Globalisation and its discontents: Human Rights and the Challenges of an Integrated World", paper given at University of North Carolina at Asheville, 28 October 2002
"States' transnational human rights obligations", speaking invitation for seminar at University of Liverpool, 29 November, 2001
"Economic and social human rights as part of a comprehensive human rights perspective". Lectures to be given at University of Bergen Law School, November 21 and 22, 2001
Invited to participate at World Bank roundtable on the revision of the World Bank's operation directive on indigenous peoples, Washington DC, 15-16 November, 2001
"Human Rights and Poverty", Guest Lecture at the University of Bergen, 20 April, 2001
Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database
Sigrun Skogly has 9 selected publication records listed on this webpage. Use links to access abstracts and full text where available. View all records to sort by date, type and title. For all ePrints records go to http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk
Gibney, Mark and Skogly, Sigrun (2010) Universal human rights and extraterritorial obligations. Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights . University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-4215-7
Skogly, Sigrun (2010) Universal human rights without universal obligations? In: Research Handbook On International Human Rights Law. Edward Elgar. ISBN 978 1 84720 368 7
Skogly, Sigrun and Cahill-Ripley, Amanda (2009) The human right to adequate food and clean and sufficient water. In: Freedom from poverty as a human right. The Philosopher's Library, 4 : La . UNESCO, Paris. ISBN 978-92-3-104145-7
Skogly, Sigrun (2007) Right to Food : National Implementation and Extraterritorial Obligations. Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, 11. pp. 339-358. ISSN 1389-4633
Skogly, Sigrun I. (2006) Beyond National Borders: States Human Rights Obligations in International Cooperation. Intersentia. ISBN 90-5095-434-0
Skogly, Sigrun I. (2002) Is there a right not to be poor? Human Rights Law Review, 2 (1). pp. 59-80. ISSN Online ISSN 1744-1021 - Print ISSN 1461-7781
Skogly, Sigrun and Gibney, Mark (2002) Transnational Human Rights Obligations. Human Rights Quarterly, 24 (3). pp. 781-798. ISSN (printed): 0275-0392. ISSN (electronic): 1085-794X
Skogly, Sigrun (2001) Crimes Against Humanity - revistited : Is there a role for economic and social rights? International Journal of Human Rights, 5 (1). pp. 58-80. ISSN 1744-053X
Skogly, Sigrun I. (2001) The Human Rights Obligations of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Cavendish Publishing, London. ISBN 1-85941-665-9
Associated Keywords: Human rights, Human rights obligation, International human rights law, International law
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Room: Bowland North, C70
Office Hour: Michaelmas Term 2010: Tuesdays 12:00 - 12:50; 'Virtual office hour' (responding to emails): Friday mornings
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