- E-mailSilje.Langvatn@uib.no
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Silje A. Langvatn is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Philosophy. She has previously held positions such as Postdoctoral Fellow at PluriCourts, University of Oslo, Law & Philosophy, fellow at Yale Law School (2016), and Fulbright Visiting Fellow at Harvard Government Department (2009).
Most recent publication (Open Access): 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.
Academic article
- 2021. Descriptive Representation of Women in International Courts. Journal of Social Philosophy.
- 2016. Should International Courts Use Public Reason? Ethics and International Affairs. 355-377.
- 2016. Legitimate, but unjust; just, but illegitimate: Rawls on political legitimacy. Philosophy & Social Criticism. 132-153.
- 2011. Superborgaren. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. 90-97.
- 2007. Feminisme i Tangoland. Fett. 4 pages.
- 2005. Martha Nussbaums universalistiske feminisme. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. 360-372.
- 2004. A Systematic Approach to Karl-Otto Apel's Explication of the Conception of Truth. Proceedings of the Durham-Bergen Postgraduate Philosophy Seminar. 73-96.
Report
- 2020. Hvordan kan forskning være med på å skape tillit i samfunnet? ALLEA rapport. .
- 2012. Suggestions for a Value-based Governance: The Idea of a ”European Science and Technology Value Atlas”. .
Lecture
- 2021. The Proportionality Test as a Test of Public reason.
- 2020. Korleis kan forskarar skape tillit til forskning?
- 2017. Post public reason in an age of post-truth politics?
- 2017. Is there a place for public reason in post-truth politics?
- 2015. The Legitimacy of International Courts: How do we conceptualize it?
- 2015. International Courts' Public Reason.
- 2015. How much can O'Neill's justificatory approach to human rights justify? - Comment on Onora O'Neill's Grimen lecture.
- 2015. Deliberative demokratimodellar.
- 2015. Courts and Public Reason: Why International Courts May be a Special Case.
- 2014. Er sosialdemokratiet liberalt?
- 2014. 17.mai: Frå pølsefest til prinsippdiskusjon? - Kva forhold vanlege borgarar har, og kan ha, til konstitusjonen.
- 2014. 17. Mai: Frå pølsefest til prinsippdiskusjon - kva forhold vanlege borgarar har, og kan ha, til konstitusjonen.
Popular scientific lecture
- 2019. Hva er Demokrati? .
- 2013. Kvinna - Den tause borgar.
- 2012. Kvinna - Den tause borgaren.
- 2008. Kan ein liberal stat støtte grunnforskning?
- 2007. Gud i det offentlege, eller offentleg gudløyse? Politisk liberale tilnærmingar.
Academic lecture
- 2021. Legitimacy Disagreements: A Framework of Analysis.
- 2020. Understanding disagreements about the legitimacy of institutions.
- 2020. Rewriting Academic Role Expectations in Light of Climate Change?
- 2019. What is it we disagree about, when we disagree about the legitimacy of an institution?
- 2019. International Courts as Exemplars of Global Public Reason .
- 2018. What is it we disagree about, when we disagree about the legitimacy?
- 2018. Institutional legitimacy.
- 2018. Analyzing institutional legitimacy.
- 2018. Accountability of experts: What does it mean, why is it challenging - and is it what we need?
- 2018. Accountability of experts - is it what we need?
- 2017. What do we mean when we say that there is a legitimacy crisis for human rights?
- 2017. The turn from justice to legitimacy.
- 2017. Rawls' political political philosophy.
- 2017. Populist backlashes against international courts - Invited comment on Erik Voeten's PluriCourts annual lecture.
- 2017. Do we improve the legitimacy of international courts by making them "more accountable"?
- 2017. Conceptualizing legitimacy in discussions about international courts.
- 2017. Accountability of expertise? Frameworks for addressing the normative challenges of increasing reliance on experts.
- 2017. "The exemplar of public reason- A framework for analyzing public reason in courts".
- 2017. ""Use of public reason" or "the public use of reason""?
- 2016. Public reason - an essentially contested term? Opening address.
- 2016. Judges as moral experts in courts.
- 2016. International Courts and non-arbitrary discretionary power.
- 2015. Why some international courts should sometimes use public reason, and what that might mean in practice.
- 2015. Why International Courts should use Public Reason.
- 2015. Should International Courts use Public Reason?
- 2015. Rawls on Theoretical and Practical Reason.
- 2015. Legitimate, but Unjust. Just, but Illegitimate.
- 2015. Expertise and Democratic Accountability in Courts and Public Administration.
- 2014. What Does it Mean to Say that an International Court has a "Public Reason"?
- 2014. What Does it Mean to Say That an Tnternational Court Should "Reason in Public Reason"?
- 2014. Rawls' Late Political Liberalism.
- 2014. Rawls' Concept and Conception pf Legitimacy.
- 2014. Rawls' Concept and Conception of Political Legitimacy.
- 2014. Public Reason and the Legitimacy of International Courts.
- 2014. Legitimacy.
- 2014. Daniel Bodansky's Analysis of Legitimacy.
- 2014. Borgardygder i Habermas og Rawls sine demokratimodellar.
- 2014. Blind Spots and Complementarity in Habermas' and Rawls' Models of Deliberative Democracy.
- 2013. The Idea of an European Science and Technology Value Atlas.
- 2013. Reflections on the ICC-ASP Conference and International Criminal Justice.
- 2013. Rawls' shift in focus from "political justice" to "political legitimacy": What difference does it make?
- 2013. Public Reason and Political Legitimacy.
- 2013. Frå "De Stummes Lejr" til "idealet om offentlig fornuft".
- 2012. Rawls on Legitimacy.
- 2011. What Rawls asks of the individual.
- 2011. Reconstructing Rawls' Political Liberalism.
- 2011. Rawls on "Public reason", Habermas on "Public use of Reason".
- 2011. Presentation of the idea of an European Science and Technology Value Atlas (ESTVA).
- 2011. Practice dependence and political constructivism in Rawls' Political Liberalism.
- 2011. Hemmelig val og offentlig fornuft.
- 2010. Rawls' Idea of Public Reason - Between "Public Reasons" and "Reasoning in Public".
- 2010. Rawls om "offentlig fornuft" versus Habermas om "offentlig bruk av fornuften".
- 2010. Public Reason - Also in Private: On the importance of "Pre-public Reasoning" as part of Rawls' civic ideal.
- 2010. Private følelser og offentlig fornuft?
- 2009. Grounding Political Morality- In Mediis Rebus.
- 2009. Can a liberal state support basic research? A Political Liberal Approach.
- 2007. Normative grounding in Political Liberalism: "postmetaphysical", "non-metaphysical" or "freestanding"?
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
- 2020. Public Reason and Courts. Cambridge University Press.
Thesis at a second degree level
- 2005. Når sant må seiast- Ein diskusjon av Karl-Otto Apels transcendentalpragmatiske sanningskonsepsjon.
Masters thesis
- 2001. Distributive Justice through International Law - A Discourse Ethical Approach.
Popular scientific article
- 2005. Menn om Menn. Fett. 36.
- 2005. Argumentativ reformasjon. Demo. 30-31.
- 2004. John Rawls: Ein teori om rettferd. Fett. 41-41.
Feature article
- 2020. Ulike syn, eller ulike måtar å argumentere for sitt syn. Klassekampen.
- 2020. Eit amerikanisert rettsvesen? Klassekampen. 2 pages.
- 2011. Superborgaren. Dagsavisen.
- 2011. Eit nytt offentlegheitsideale? Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). 2 pages.
- 2004. Aurdal versus Matlary og vice versa. Fædrelandsvennen.
Doctoral dissertation
- 2013. The Idea and Ideal of Public Reason – John Rawls’ Attempt to Conceptualize a Well-ordered Constitutional Democracy.
Interview
- 2020. Domstolar sin legitimitet og klimarettsaka.
- 2016. Unge forskere sprenger grenser.
- 2016. Et tverrfaglig problem.
- 2013. Skuggeskrivarane.
- 2013. Rawls' røyst.
- 2013. Meir enn Stemmerett.
- 2013. Grunnlov tatt for gitt? Demokrati og offentlig begrunnelse.
- 2013. Ferdamann med stein i skoen. (Svar til Arild Pedersen sitt "Ferdaminne frå Skjervheimen" i Dag og Tid, 27.10.2013).
- 2013. Eit rom fullt av elefantar (Om ICC sitt statspartsmøte i Haag 2013).
- 2012. Kva er det norske? Kronikk.
- 2012. Intervju om prosjektet Value Isobars og The European Science &Technology Value Atlas.
Programme participation
- 2012. Kortfilm som presenterer Prosjektet Value Isobars og The European S&T Value Atlas.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
- 2020. Taking Public Reason to Court: Understanding References to Public Reason in Discussions about Courts and Adjudication. 42 pages.
- 2017. Conceptualizing and Measuring the Legitimacy of International Criminal Tribunals. 25 pages.
- 2016. Rawls' Political Liberalism Reconstructed. 33 pages.
- 2014. Public reason and political legitimacy. 23 pages.
- 2010. Martha Nussbaum - i rettferdas nybrottsland. 23 pages.
Academic literature review
- 2019. Introduction to the Symposium: Political and Legal Theory on the Legitimacy of International Courts. Temple International and Comparative Law Journal. 242-246.
- 2014. Book Review: International Criminal Justice: Legitimacy and Coherence, edited by G. Boas, W. A. Schabas and M. P. Scharf. Nordic Journal of International Law. 347-355.
Introduction
- 2020. Preface to Public Reason and Courts. xi-xxxvi.
Article in business/trade/industry journal
- 2014. Politisk filosofi for eit sosialdemokrati. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. 343-346.
Interview Journal
- 2005. Eit muslimsk, feministisk dilemma. Fett. 52-53.
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