Centre on Law & Social Transformation – LawTransform – is a network of scholars, students and practitioners who share an interest in how law shapes societies, and the use of rights and courts as tools for social change. LawTransform was established in 2014 as a collaboration between the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and the University of Bergen (UiB). Fellows and affiliates come from […]

LawTransform PhD course “Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change” (10- 21 August, 2020) Application deadline 20 June, 2020! Apply here. Covid-19 update: we will have a digital PhD course starting from 10 August (with a preparatory period from 3 August). Note that the additional training in Humanitarian Diplomacy and participation […]

Although physical seminars are cancelled, we are starting having online events. We look forward to seeing you in our webinars! In the meantime you can also watch the events we previously streamed.       Webinar: Barn i lock-down: Utfordrer korona-tiltakene barns rettigheter? Photo by Anthony Espinosa on Unsplash

The pandemic has limited people’s movement within and across borders, with particular consequences for migrants and refugees. Venezuelans alone number more than three million migrants and refugees living in different South American countries. How has the pandemic affected vulnerable migrant and refugee populations in both Europe and South America? Do their experiences differ across the […]

In the Amazon deforestation and fires have soared since the Brazilian far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, took office in January 2019, vowing to end the “fines industry” of environment agencies and develop the rainforest. This has consequences for deforestation – and thus for the global climate. It also severely affects the indigenous peoples of the Amazon. […]

BSRS2020 “Global Climate Governance Regime” PhD course session/webinar on Grassroot climate activism – from Paris to the Amazon With Nnimmo Bassey, Julio Prieto, Deborah Delgado, Camila Gianella & Siri Gloppen Myriad organizations – diverse and spanning the globe – are engaged in climate related activism. Some are transnational in operation and focus, some are national […]