Silje Aambø Langvatn
Position
Associate Professor
Affiliation
- silje.langvatn@uib.no
- Phone number
- +47 55582732
- Visitor address
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Parkveien 9
5007 Bergen - Postal address
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P.O. Box 7805NO-5020 BergenNorway
Silje Aambø Langvatn
Position
Associate Professor
Affiliation
Research groups
Research
Silje A. Langvatn is Associate Professor in Political Philosophy at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT). She has previously held positions such as postdoctoral fellow at SVT, postdoctoral fellow at PluriCourts, University of Oslo, Law & Philosophy, fellow at Yale Law School (2016), and Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Harvard Government Department (2009).
Outreach
- Organizer of workshop about proportionality assessments in cooperation with PluriCourts. Bergen, 6 and 7 July 2023
- Talk: Academic freedom imaginaries at SVT's anniversary seminar Academic freedom at 35. Bergen, 23.09.2022
- Co-organizer of and contributor to workshop: Proporsjonalitetsvurderingar - korleis og kvifor? (Proportionality assessment - how and why?) Organized in cooperation with Eirik Holmøyvik with support from PluriCourts (UiO) og Faculty of Law (UiB). Bergen, 10.05.2022
- Talk: SVT's symposium Sick Society: What makes corona measures justifiable? Bergen, 03.12.2021
- Mention: Mens Høyesterett grubler: Her er en guide til debattene i klimasøksmålets kjølvann (in Norwegian) 03.12.2020
- Opinion piece in Klassekampen - follow-up of the op-ed 17.11 (with Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde): Ulike syn, eller ulike måtar å argumentere for sitt syn (24.11.20, in Norwegian, behind paywall)
- Op-ed in Norwegian daily Klassekampen about the Norwegian Supreme Court case People vs. Arctic oil climate lawsuit (with Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde): "Eit amerikanisert rettsvesen?" (17.11.20, in Norwegian, behind paywall)
- Podcast, Norwegian weekly Dag og Tid 12.11.20: Hundreårets rettsak: Klimasaka i Høgsterett dag for dag (about the climate lawsuit - episode no longer available)
- Op-ed: Kva er det norske? NRK Ytring, 19.11.2012 (in Norwegian)
- Interview in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) series Vitenskapshvelvet om Verdiatlas (related to the project Value Isobars - in Norwegian) 03.11.2012
Publications
Recent publications
Langvatn, S.A. & Holst, C. (2022) Expert accountability: What does it mean, why is it challenging—and is it what we need? Constellations 00, 1– 16
When mistakes are made in political life, a standard remedy is to find someone to hold to account. But when experts who take part in governance make mistakes, they are seldom the ones who are held to account. So, is the solution to make these «unaccountable experts» more accountable? Not so quick, we argue. Case: The severe expert mistakes made in the preparation of the impact assessment report for opening the South Eastern Barents Sea for petroleum activity.
Holst, C., & Langvatn, S. A. (2021). Descriptive representation of women in international courts. Journal of Social Philosophy, 00, 1– 18
"Should Blacks Represent Blacks, and Women Represent Women? A Contingent "Yes" (Jane Mansbridge 1999). In a new article, Cathrine Holst and I revisit Mansbridge's article, which presented a systematic framework for evaluating the costs and benefits of such descriptive representation. Mansbridge developed her framework with elected assemblies in mind.
We look at how the calculus changes when the question is descriptive representation of women in international courts. For this type of institution, we argue, some of the costs of descriptive representation become costlier, and some of the benefits become weaker.
Publication overview in Cristin
2023
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2023). Regulating for Evidence-based Advice: Which Prescriptions for Non-epistemic Value Judgments?. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2023). Regulating for evidence-based advice: Prescriptions for non-epistemic value judgments. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2023). Kva eg snakkar om når eg sakkar om vitskapsteori. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2023). Invited speaker to roundtable on "The future of political theory and philosophy". (external link)
2022
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø; Holst, Cathrine (2022). Expert accountability: what does it mean, why is it challenging - and is it what we need?. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2022). Academic Freedom Imaginaries. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2022). Forholdsmessig styring . (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2022). Kva snakkar vi om når vi snakkar om at inngripande tiltak må vere proporsjonale?. (external link)
2021
- Holst, Cathrine; Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2021). Descriptive representation of women in international courts. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2021). Legitimacy Disagreements: A Framework of Analysis. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2021). The Proportionality Test as a Test of Public reason. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2021). PluriCourts Lunch Seminar: What is it we disagree about when we disagree about the legitimacy of an institution? A framework for identifying and diagnosing legitimacy disagreements. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2021). When are Covid measures justifiable? - or how can we assess and justify the measures in a better way-. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø; Stie, Anne Elisabeth (2021). Constitution Making and Deliberative Democracy: Norway country report. (external link)
2020
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø; Kumm, Mattias; Sadurski, Wojciech (2020). Preface to Public Reason and Courts. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø; Sunde, Jørn Øyrehagen (2020). Ulike syn, eller ulike måtar å argumentere for sitt syn. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2020). Korleis kan forskarar skape tillit til forskning?. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø; Sunde, Jørn Øyrehagen (2020). Eit amerikanisert rettsvesen?. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2020). Domstolar sin legitimitet og klimarettsaka. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2020). Understanding disagreements about the legitimacy of institutions. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2020). Rewriting Academic Role Expectations in Light of Climate Change?. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2020). Hvordan kan forskning være med på å skape tillit i samfunnet? ALLEA rapport. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2020). Taking Public Reason to Court: Understanding References to Public Reason in Discussions about Courts and Adjudication. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø; Kumm, Mattias; Sadurski, Wojciech (2020). Public Reason and Courts. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2020). Introducing the Public Reason and Court anthology. (external link)
2019
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2019). What is it we disagree about, when we disagree about the legitimacy of an institution?. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2019). International Courts as Exemplars of Global Public Reason . (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2019). Hva er Demokrati? . (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø; Dunoff, Jeffrey L.; Westergren, Martin (2019). Introduction to the Symposium: Political and Legal Theory on the Legitimacy of International Courts. (external link)
2018
- Holst, Cathrine; Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2018). Accountability of experts: What does it mean, why is it challenging - and is it what we need?. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2018). What is it we disagree about, when we disagree about the legitimacy?. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2018). Analyzing institutional legitimacy. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2018). Institutional legitimacy. (external link)
- Holst, Cathrine; Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2018). Accountability of experts - is it what we need?. (external link)
2017
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø; Holst, Cathrine (2017). Accountability of expertise? Frameworks for addressing the normative challenges of increasing reliance on experts. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2017). Conceptualizing legitimacy in discussions about international courts. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2017). Rawls' political political philosophy. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2017). What do we mean when we say that there is a legitimacy crisis for human rights?. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2017). ""Use of public reason" or "the public use of reason""?. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2017). Is there a place for public reason in post-truth politics?. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2017). "The exemplar of public reason- A framework for analyzing public reason in courts". (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2017). Populist backlashes against international courts - Invited comment on Erik Voeten's PluriCourts annual lecture. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2017). Post public reason in an age of post-truth politics?. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2017). Do we improve the legitimacy of international courts by making them "more accountable"?. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø; Squatrito, Theresa (2017). Conceptualizing and Measuring the Legitimacy of International Criminal Tribunals. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2017). The turn from justice to legitimacy. (external link)
2016
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2016). Rawls' Political Liberalism Reconstructed. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø; Vigsnes, Eirik (2016). Unge forskere sprenger grenser. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2016). Judges as moral experts in courts. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2016). Et tverrfaglig problem. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2016). International Courts and non-arbitrary discretionary power. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2016). Public reason - an essentially contested term? Opening address. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2016). Legitimate, but unjust; just, but illegitimate: Rawls on political legitimacy. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2016). Should International Courts Use Public Reason?. (external link)
2015
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2015). Should International Courts use Public Reason?. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2015). Deliberative demokratimodellar. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2015). Rawls on Theoretical and Practical Reason. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2015). Why International Courts should use Public Reason. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2015). International Courts' Public Reason. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2015). The Legitimacy of International Courts: How do we conceptualize it?. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2015). Why some international courts should sometimes use public reason, and what that might mean in practice. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2015). Courts and Public Reason: Why International Courts May be a Special Case. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2015). Legitimate, but Unjust. Just, but Illegitimate.. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2015). How much can O'Neill's justificatory approach to human rights justify? - Comment on Onora O'Neill's Grimen lecture. (external link)
- Holst, Cathrine; Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2015). Expertise and Democratic Accountability in Courts and Public Administration. (external link)
2014
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2014). 17.mai: Frå pølsefest til prinsippdiskusjon? - Kva forhold vanlege borgarar har, og kan ha, til konstitusjonen. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2014). Public reason and political legitimacy. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø; Høgestøl, Sofie A.E. (2014). Book Review: International Criminal Justice: Legitimacy and Coherence, edited by G. Boas, W. A. Schabas and M. P. Scharf. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2014). Politisk filosofi for eit sosialdemokrati. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2014). Rawls' Late Political Liberalism. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2014). Public Reason and the Legitimacy of International Courts. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2014). Daniel Bodansky's Analysis of Legitimacy. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2014). Legitimacy. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2014). Blind Spots and Complementarity in Habermas' and Rawls' Models of Deliberative Democracy. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2014). 17. Mai: Frå pølsefest til prinsippdiskusjon - kva forhold vanlege borgarar har, og kan ha, til konstitusjonen. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2014). Er sosialdemokratiet liberalt?. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2014). Borgardygder i Habermas og Rawls sine demokratimodellar. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2014). Rawls' Concept and Conception of Political Legitimacy. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2014). What Does it Mean to Say that an International Court has a "Public Reason"?. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2014). What Does it Mean to Say That an Tnternational Court Should "Reason in Public Reason"?. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2014). Rawls' Concept and Conception pf Legitimacy. (external link)
2013
- Lohne, Kjersti; Langvatn, Silje Aambø; Høgestøl, Sofie A.E. (2013). Reflections on the ICC-ASP Conference and International Criminal Justice. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2013). Eit rom fullt av elefantar (Om ICC sitt statspartsmøte i Haag 2013). (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2013). Rawls' shift in focus from "political justice" to "political legitimacy": What difference does it make?. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2013). Ferdamann med stein i skoen. (Svar til Arild Pedersen sitt "Ferdaminne frå Skjervheimen" i Dag og Tid, 27.10.2013). (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2013). Public Reason and Political Legitimacy. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2013). Frå "De Stummes Lejr" til "idealet om offentlig fornuft". (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2013). Rawls' røyst. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2013). Meir enn Stemmerett. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2013). Skuggeskrivarane. (external link)
- Melvær, Knut; Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2013). Grunnlov tatt for gitt? Demokrati og offentlig begrunnelse. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2013). Kvinna - Den tause borgar. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2013). The Idea of an European Science and Technology Value Atlas. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2013). The Idea and Ideal of Public Reason – John Rawls’ Attempt to Conceptualize a Well-ordered Constitutional Democracy. (external link)
2012
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2012). Rawls on Legitimacy. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2012). Kortfilm som presenterer Prosjektet Value Isobars og The European S&T Value Atlas. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2012). Intervju om prosjektet Value Isobars og The European Science &Technology Value Atlas. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2012). Kva er det norske? Kronikk. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2012). Kvinna - Den tause borgaren. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2012). Suggestions for a Value-based Governance: The Idea of a ”European Science and Technology Value Atlas”. (external link)
2011
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2011). What Rawls asks of the individual. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2011). Presentation of the idea of an European Science and Technology Value Atlas (ESTVA). (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2011). Hemmelig val og offentlig fornuft. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2011). Superborgaren. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2011). Superborgaren. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2011). Eit nytt offentlegheitsideale?. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2011). Rawls on "Public reason", Habermas on "Public use of Reason". (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2011). Practice dependence and political constructivism in Rawls' Political Liberalism. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2011). Reconstructing Rawls' Political Liberalism. (external link)
2010
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2010). Rawls om "offentlig fornuft" versus Habermas om "offentlig bruk av fornuften". (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2010). Private følelser og offentlig fornuft?. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2010). Public Reason - Also in Private: On the importance of "Pre-public Reasoning" as part of Rawls' civic ideal. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2010). Rawls' Idea of Public Reason - Between "Public Reasons" and "Reasoning in Public". (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2010). Martha Nussbaum - i rettferdas nybrottsland. (external link)
2009
2007
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2007). Feminisme i Tangoland. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2007). Normative grounding in Political Liberalism: "postmetaphysical", "non-metaphysical" or "freestanding"?. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2007). Gud i det offentlege, eller offentleg gudløyse? Politisk liberale tilnærmingar. (external link)
2005
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2005). Eit muslimsk, feministisk dilemma. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2005). Menn om Menn. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2005). Argumentativ reformasjon. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2005). Martha Nussbaums universalistiske feminisme. (external link)
- Langvatn, Silje Aambø (2005). Når sant må seiast- Ein diskusjon av Karl-Otto Apels transcendentalpragmatiske sanningskonsepsjon. (external link)