LawTransform x BIFF 2026

This autumn, LawTransform is collaborating with the Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF) to bring film and research into conversation. Through a series of screenings, seminars and discussions, we explore how the stories on screen connect to questions of law, rights and social change. Our events so far: Breakfast Seminar – “The Secret Reading Club of […]

Revisit the 2026 Bergen Exchanges 17-21 August

How to Ban AI Glasses? A Pedagogical Approach

A Minister Needs Help This summer, AI glasses suddenly became a hot topic in the Norwegian public sphere. What had for years existed as a kind of utopian object of the future suddenly appeared for sale at opticians. Digitalization Minister Karianne Tung was accused of being uninformed, uninterested, and too accommodating toward the technology giants. […]

Recent publications

How to Ban AI Glasses? A Pedagogical Approach

October 16, 2026

A Minister Needs Help This summer, AI glasses suddenly became a hot topic in the Norwegian public sphere. What had for years existed as a kind …

“All women’s wombs are caught up in these politics”: Interview with Maya Unnithan

October 16, 2026

Maya Unnithan is a social and medical anthropologist at the Department of Anthropology at Sussex and Director of the Centre for Cultures of Reproduction Technologies …

Art as Protest, Art as Refuge; What February 28th Left Behind 

September 17, 2026

Mona Tahani is a visual artist based in Bergen who works in textile, printmaking, painting and wood carving, and also works separately as a cultural …

The Importance of Language and Oppressed Identities  

September 17, 2026

Shwan Dler Qaradaki was born in 1977 in Suleimania, in Iraqi Kurdistan – the Iraqi part of the larger historical and cultural region of Kurdistan …

Art of Repression, Resistance, Memory & Reconciliation

September 23, 2026

  On Thursday, August 20th, a group of researchers, scholars, and students gathered at Kunsthall 3, 14 to learn about and discuss art as a form …

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Art as Protest, Art as Memory: Three Reflections from Bergen Exchanges 2026

September 18, 2026

During the 2026 Bergen Exchanges, researchers, scholars and students gathered at Kunsthall 3,14 for a panel on art as a form of resistance, opened by …

Book Review of “Child Protection and the European Court of Human Rights”

May 15, 2026

"At a time when European welfare states deal with competing demands of state sovereignty, family autonomy and universal children's rights, the book offers an incisive …

Applications open for #BeEx2026 PhD course “Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change”  

January 7, 2026

Join the LawTransform/UiB Department of Goverment PhD course “Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change”  which is an integrated part of the …

The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. 80 years on

November 20, 2025

Blogpost by Dorothee Alberts When on 20 November 1945 the opening session of the International Military Tribunal (IMT)[1] was being held in Nuremberg by the four …

#BeEx2025 activist interviews and more

October 21, 2025

The CMI recap of the 2025 Bergen Exchanges, featuring interviews with some of our dear scholars: Satang Nabaneh, Ayo Sogunro, Reem Abbas, and Adrian Jjuuko and …