We invite you to revisit this year’s engaging annual lecture, where renowned scholar Kim Lane Scheppele, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University, delves into the critical issue of preserving democracy in the modern age. Professor Scheppele highlights the primary role that transnational courts play in transforming individual rights […]

Something you might not have noticed during the chaotic times of Bergen Exchanges, some of our most prominent alumni working on the joint CMI/LawTransform Rights act project were interviewed. All of which are experts on understanding how human rights activism is operating in countries where civic space is shrinking, this is what they were asked: […]

Research on trust is highly interdisciplinary and has produced an impressive body of knowledge about its forms, causes and consequences. However, existing research agendas have notable biases, two of which are the focus of this presentation: first, research privileges trust while marginalising distrust, resulting in an incomplete and flawed understanding; second, it engages in sweeping generalisations, overlooking distinctions

LawTransform – the CMI-UiB Centre on Law & Social Transformation – has turned 10 years! We celebrated throughout the week of the Bergen Exchanges with a series of roundtables discussing what socio-legal research should focus on in the coming years, setting the research agendas for the next decade.

Lise Rakner takes over as Co-Director of LawTransform, from 1. November 2024 until 1 August 2025 and will share the directorship with Liv Tønnessen of CMI.  Siri Gloppen is stepping down temporarily to serve as the Dean of the UiB Social Science faculty. Lise, who is very well know to the LawTransform community, is a […]