Recent publications
Podcast: Right to Love in India
March 21, 2022
In 2018, homosexuality was decriminalized in India. It was the result of a rights mobilization that started almost two decades ago. From the start, LGBT …
Parental Freedom in the Context of Risk to the Child: Citizens’ Views of Child Protection and the State in the US and Norway
March 19, 2022
New article by Jill Duerr Berrick, Joseph N. Roscoe and Marit Skivenes Professor Marit Skivenes and colleagues at UC Berkeley, USA, examine the normative basis for limiting parents’ freedom …
What the global research community and academic sector can do to help Ukraine
March 4, 2022
BLOGPOST by Liliia Oprysk Ukraine has been fighting the hybrid war with Russia since 2014. 1,5 million Ukrainians were forced to leave their homes in the east …
How do citizens balance children’s rights against parents’ rights?
February 21, 2022
New article by Jill Duerr Berrick, Joseph N. Roscoe and Marit Skivenes Professor Marit Skivenes and colleagues at UC Berkeley, USA, compare citizens’ rights orientations in context of child …
Those that challenges state authority
February 11, 2022
BLOG: Those that challenges state authority - The critics of the welfare state and the child protection system are diverse with a range of motives …
Recent news
Urfolksforelesningen 2022
March 9, 2022
Buorre boahtem! I anledning Samenes nasjonaldag, arrangerte LawTransform Urfolksforelesningen 2022 (Annual Lecture on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples) i samarbeid med Bergen Sameforening og Bergen Global …
The World’s Worst State Leaders of 2021
January 25, 2022
When the Norwegian newspaper Morgenbladet declared the “The World’s Worst State Leaders of 2021”, Lise Rakner, Professor of political science at the University of Bergen …
Queer Lawfare seminar series
December 22, 2021
To mark the celebration of 50 years since homosexuality was decriminalised in Norway, LawTransform will run, throughout 2022, a seminar series focused on queer rights activism …
Water | Special Issue: Water and Sanitation as Human Rights: Have They Strengthened Marginalized Peoples’ Claim for Access?
December 13, 2021
The team working on LawTransform's project Elevating water rights to human rights: Has it strengthened marginalized peoples’ claim for water? has created a special issue …
LawTransform is launching its own podcast!
November 24, 2021
We are excited to announce that we are launching our own podcast. There will be monthly episodes on topics related to LawTransform’s work — from …