Jonas Grimheden

Dr. Jonas Grimheden, Senior Researcher at RWI, most recently taught a seminar on International Human Rights Law and a course on Chinese Law, both at Cornell Law School (Spring 2006). In the summer of 2006 he was co-teacher (European Professor with Mitchel Lasser) at Cornell Summer Institute at Sorbonne, Paris, teaching Comparative Law with an Asian twist. In 2006/2007 he is a part-time Visiting Professor at China University of Political Science and Law, teaching international human rights law. Grimheden has also taught various aspects of international human rights law at Lund University, for RWI at various locations worldwide, and in summer schools as well as lectures at various universities including Mahidol U, Bangkok; Kim Il-Sung U, Pyongyang; Beijing U, Henan Normal U; European U-Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder); Poznan Human Rights Center; G eborg U; Niigata U; Chinese U of Hong Kong; Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing.

Publications

• ‘Monitoring Human Rights Compliance within the EU: The Use of Indicators at the Local Level’, Indicators and Monitoring Systems as Preventive Tools for Ensuring Peace and Security and Respect for Human Rights in External Policymaking of the EU, The Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Conference proceedings, BIM Study Series, Verlag Österreich, 2007 (forthcoming)
• ‘Courts and Democracy in a One-Party State: Judicial Independence in China’, Chinese Yearbook of Human Rights, 2007 (forthcoming)
• ‘The Self-Reflective Human Rights Promoter’, in J. Grimheden & R. Ring (Eds.) Human Rights Law: From Dissemination to Application, Essays in Honour of Göran Melander, The Hague: Brill, 2006
• ‘Inveterate China: Law and Symbolism’, in Culture, Law and Order: Chinese and Western Traditions, Macau: Macau Ricci Institute Studies 4, 2005
• ’Sverige och de mänskliga rättigheterna: En kritisk granskning’ [Sweden and Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal] 22 (2) Nordic Journal of Human Rights, 2004, with Carin Laurin, and Katarina M sson (Eds.) (in Swedish)
• Strategies for Reform of the Judiciary in China: One Concept, Two Descriptions 9 (3/4) Zeitschrift f Chinesisches Recht 114-129, 2002
• The International Court of Justice in Furthering the Justiciability of Human Rights in G. Alfredsson, J. Grimheden, B. Ramcharan & A. de Zayas (Eds.) International Human Rights Monitoring Mechanisms: Essays in Honour of Jakob Th. M ler. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2001 ( A second revised and updated edition is being prepared and will be out in 2007)
• Pekingregimens legitimitetsdilemma [The Legitimacy Dilemma of the Beijing Regime] Internationella Studier, Summer 2001, with Oscar Alm and Johan Lagerkvist (in Swedish)
• ‘Sifa zhidu de yuanze: ouzhou renquan fayuan panlifa zhong de sifa duli‘ [Judicial Independence in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights], in Sifa Gongzheng yu quanli baozhang [Fair Trial and Rights Protection], China Legal Publisher, 2001 (in Chinese)
• ’Menneskerettighetspolitikk overfor Kina: Konfrontasjon eller dialog?’ [Human Rights Politics in China: Confrontation or Dialogue?] 17 (1) Nordic Journal on Human Rights 1999, with Hatla Telle och Lisa Stearns (in Norwegian)
• Themis v. Xiezhi: Assessing Judicial Independence in the People Republic of China under International Human Rights Law, doctoral dissertation, Lund University, April 2004 (http://www.lub.lu.se/luft/diss/law_37/law_37.pdf)