Henriette Sinding Aasen

Title: Professor

Phone: +47 55 58 95 85

E-mail: Henriette.Aasen@jur.uib.no

Visiting address: Magnus Lagabøtesplass 1

Education

Graduated from University of Oslo, Faculty of law (Cand jur), 1989
Doctor of law (Dr. juris), University of Bergen, Faculty of law, 1998

Employment history

Professor, University of Bergen, Faculty of law, 2006-
Postdoc, University of Bergen, Faculty of law, 2003-2005
Associate professor, University of Bergen, Faculty of law, 1998-2006
Research fellow, University of Bergen, Faculty of law, 1991-1998
Research fellow, University of Oslo, Institute of Women´s Law, 1989-90

Main areas of ongoing research and related activities

Research interests include a broad range of issues related to the welfare state, citizenship, human rights and democracy.

Coordinator of the University of Bergen interdisciplinary research program on Democracy and Rule of Law (2008-2012).

Leader of three interdisciplinary research projects, all funded by the Norwegian Research Council: The NORGLOBAL project (Norway-Tanzania) “Health promotion, dignity and human rights: improvement of maternal health” (2010-2013), examining human rights obligations related to maternal health in Tanzania; “Juridification and social citizenship in the Norwegian welfare state: towards a multidimensional analysis (2011-2014), which includes empirical and normative analysis of juridification processes as they play out in the Norwegian welfare state, and their implications for inclusion of vulnerable groups and their social citizenship; and “Constitution, welfare state and citizenship” (2011-2014), exploring the influence of the Norwegian Constitution on the notion of citizenship and the legal and political interplay between the Constitution and the development of the Norwegian welfare state. All projects have international partners.

Member of the interdisciplinary research project 'Should States Ratify Human Rights Conventions?' (2009-2010), headed by prof. Andreas Føllesdal and prof. Geir Ulfstein (Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo), resulting in the upcoming volume Women’s Human Rights: CEDAW in International, Regional and National Law (Hellum and Aasen eds., Cambridge University Press, 2013).

Publications in Cristin

Publications (selected), 2006-2012

Women’s Human Rights: CEDAW in International, Regional and National Law (Hellum and Aasen eds), Cambridge University Press, 2013.

“Maternal mortality and women´s right to health protection”, Chapter 10 in the upcoming volume Women’s Human Rights: CEDAW in International, Regional and National Law (Hellum and Aasen eds), Cambridge University Press, 2013.

“Barns rett til helsetjenester” [Children´s right to healthcare services], together with Marit Halvorsen, Chapter 9 in Barnekonvensjonen. Barns rettigheter i Norge [The Convention on the Rights of the Child: Children´s rights in Norway] (Høstmælingen, Kjørholt and Sandberg eds), Universitetsforlaget, 2012, pp 186-204.

“Velferd og menneskerettigheter: “Ulovlig opphold” som grunnlag for å avskjære helse- og sosialhjelp?» [Welfare services and human rights: «Illegal immigration» as a basis of rejecting healthcare and social services?], together with Alice Kjellevold, Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning no. 2, 2012, pp 93-108.

“Female genital mutilation and the right to privacy: a double-edged sword”, in Nordic Health Law in a European Context. Welfare State Perspectives on Patients´Rights and Biomedicine, Rynning and Hartlev eds), Liber Förlag, 2011, pp 201-216.

Children and the right to health protection”, Chapter 8 in Health and Human Rights in Europe (Toebes et al eds), Intersentia, 2011 pp 227-248.

“Right to health protection for the elderly: Key elements and state obligations”, Chapter 10 in Health and Human Rights in Europe (Toebes et al eds), Intersentia, 2011, pp 273-300.

”Huleboerdommen og bruk av tvang i sykehjem: Rt. 2010 s. 612” [Analysis of a recent Supreme Court decision on the use of coercive measueres in a Norwegian nursing home], (Kjellevold og Sinding Aasen), Tidsskrift for erstatningsrett, forsikringsrett og velferdsrett, No. 1/2011, pp 52-71.

”Recent Developments in Nordic Health Law” (Rynning, Arnardottir, Hartlev, Sinding Aasen, Soini), European Journal of Health Law, 17/2010, pp 1-16.

“Kjønnslemlestelse – Norges menneskerettslige forpliktelser” [Female genital mutilation – Norway´s human rights obligations], i Omskjæring. Stopp (Foss ed), Cappelen Akademisk Forlag 2010, pp 113-133.

”Freedom of expression in Islamic Law”, Ragnarsbók - Fræðirit um mannréttindi til heiðurs Ragnari Aðalsteinssyni hæstaréttarlögmanni (Iceland), 2009, pp 141-162.

“Frivillighet, tvang og menneskeverd i det psykiske helsevern: Etiske og juridiske utfordringer” [Autonomy, Coercion and Human Dignity in Psychiatric Healthcare: Ethical and Legal Concerns, Tidsskrift for Norsk Psykologforening (invited article to a special issue on psychiatric treatment and human rights), Dec 2009, vol 46, pp 1175-1182.
Human Rights, Dignity and Autonomy in Health Care and Social Services: Nordic Perspectives (Sinding Aasen, Halvorsen and Barbosa da Silva eds), Antwerp: Intersentia 2009, 221 pp.

“Dignity and human rights in the modern welfare state”, chapter 2 in Human Rights, Dignity and Autonomy in Health Care and Social Services: Nordic Perspectives (Aasen, Halvorsen, and Barbosa da Silva eds), Intersentia 2009.

“Informed consent and treatment of individuals with cognitive impairment”, chapter 5, ibid.

“Barns rett til selvbestemmelse og medbestemmelse i beslutninger om helsehjelp” [Children´s right to self-determination and participation in medical decisions], Tidsskrift for familierett, arverett og barnevernrettslige spørsmål nr 1/2008, pp 4-28.
Guest editor of a special issue on Health and Human Rights, Nordic Journal of Human Rights, vol 24 nr 4, 2006, pp 271-382, see the following articles:

"Helse og menneskerettigheter: Internasjonale og nasjonale utfordringer" (innledning) [Health and human rights: International and national challenges (introduction)], Nordic Journal of Human Rights, vol 24 nr 4, 2006, pp 271-274.

"Svangerskapsomsorg - en menneskerett også for fattige kvinner" [Maternal healthcare – a human right also for poor women] (Kvåle and Sinding Aasen), Nordic Journal of Human Rights, vol