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 […]

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.

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 […]

Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif is a social anthropologist and Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bergen. She studied Anthropology and French at the University of Western Australia and Sciences Po Paris, before receiving her PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in 2018. She has held research fellowships at Harvard Law School and centers for Southeast Asian Studies in Leiden, Paris, and Kyoto. She works primarily on the intersection of Islam, intimacy, and the state in the Malay world and Muslim Southeast Asia.