Applications open for BeEx2025 PhD Course: Effects of Lawfare

“Effects of Lawfare – Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change” in an integral part of LawTransfom’s annual The course offers insights into cutting edge research on the potential and limits of law as an instrument of social change and provides a unique opportunity to engage with some of the foremost scholars in the […]

New PhD course: Sex and politics in a global perspective

  In spring 2025, SKOK (center for women’s and gender research), LawTransform and Skeivforsk will organize a cross-disciplinary, combined master and PhD course about thedynamics between sex and politics in a global perspective.   Registration deadline – Monday 13 of January 2025.    The main focus will be on how LGBTQ issues are used for […]

New LawTransform Co-Director

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 […]

Spotlight on the Rights Research Agenda

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.

10 Years of LawTransform – Revisit our History

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.

Revisit #BeEx2024 Annual Lecture: Kim Lane Scheppele “Restoring Democracy through Transnational Law”

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 […]

Recent publications

Restrictions on the right to vote for convicted felons in the U.S.

This blogpost was written and finished on November 5th, right before the beginning of the US presidential elections. A more extensive version of this post …

The Nordic Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: A new TRC model for resolving historic and ongoing violations of indigenous rights

A book chapter by Elin Skaar, a Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), where she heads the research cluster on Rights and Legal …

Personal Identity Rights Development and Recent Adoption Cases at the European Court of Human Rights

Blogpost by: Professor Jill Marshall, Professor of Law, Royal Holloway, University of London BLOG: We may all think we know what ‘personal identity’ means, but what exactly …

Opening the discussion about adoption from care in Finland – wrong place, right time?

  Blogpost by: Petra Järvinen, Doctoral Researcher, Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, and visiting scholar at the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA) in April and …

The Supreme Court of Argentina

We are pleased to introduce you the chapter written by our fellow Andrea Castagnola and her colleagues in the book "Constitutional Reasoning in Latin America …

Recent news

Good wishes to all!

Dear friends and colleagues. As 2024 draws to a close we want to thank all who in myriad ways have contributed to the life and …

LawTransform represents the University of Bergen (UiB) at CHARM-EU Annual Conference 2024

On 5 November the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary, hosted the CHARM-EU Annual Conference 2024 “Intercultural Learning and European Universities”, bringing together delegates …

Two women smiling walking in the street of Bergen New Project on Children’s Rights and Crime Prevention

Linda Gröning from the Faculty of Law (PI) and Marit Skivenes (co-PI) from the Department of Government and Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA) …

South-South Network Special Issue – October 18th

We are excited to announce the launch of the South-South Network Special Issue on October 18th! Published by Direito GV, this special issue rethinks inequalities …

Participating at the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women

Reflections from Maria Lie Jordheim: From the 11th to the 21st of March, I attended the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women …