JUST SOCIETY webinar series: Critical perspectives on the Nordic Model

The ‘Nordic model’ captures an encompassing and redistributive welfare system based on free market capitalism, rule of law, inclusive participation, and a strong state. A distinctive trait of the Nordic model is the achievement of universal access to social security policies and equal access to justice. The Nordic model has been glorified with Francis Fukuyama suggesting that all countries should be like ‘Denmark’. However, is all well with the Nordic model? And what would be the relevance of the Nordic experiences to countries in the Global South?

In its webinars, JUST SOCIETY opens for a discussion on these questions and for critical investigations into different aspects of the Nordic model. The webinars facilitate an interdisciplinary and intercontinental dialogue between legal and social science experts on the Nordic model and experts from selected Global South countries.

JUST SOCIETY’s first webinar will be on:

Equal Access in the Nordic Model?
The webinar confronts the idea of universal access to welfare and equal access to justice to further the understanding of both social and legal equality in the Nordic countries as well as in the Global South.

The webinar will feature two presentations:

Professor of Political Science, Klaus Petersen, will present a critical perspective on equal access to social welfare benefits in the Nordic Model

Professor of Constitutional Law, Frederik Waage, will provide discuss the challenges of ensuring effective access to the Danish courts.

In reaction to the two presentations, Professor Lauren Graham and Senior Lecturer Elmarie Fourie from University of Johannesburg will comment on how (well) the Nordic model and its ideas of universalism and equal access to justice can travel to the Global South.

The webinar will be chaired by Marianne S. Ulriksen, Associate Professor of Political Science and Project leader of JUST SOCIETY, Department of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark.

Find more information and register here.