Time: 20. – 24. August 2018 Main venue: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31. For other venues, please see the program. Open to the public. The Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation  is a week of public seminars, project workshops and social events – and a PhD course on Effects of Lawfare.  We invite academics, students and practitioners from all […]

Date: Monday 20 August 2018 Time: 09:30-11.00 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen The right to health aims to secure for all the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, but what when resource scarcity makes it impossible to provide optimal health care for the entire population? Can the right […]

From human rights to local justice & the quiet power of indicators Date: Wednesday 22 August Time: 15:30-17:30 Place: Bergen University Aula  Keynote address and roundtable  From human rights to local justice & the quiet power of indicators with Sally Engle Merry, NYU How are international human rights «vernacularized» and applied in local contexts? And […]

Date: Thursday 23 August 2018 Time: 18:00-19:30 Place: Auditorium 4, University of Bergen faculty of Law, Bergen Keynote address: David and Goliath: Children’s participation in immigration proceedings What does it mean to adopt a children’s rights-based approach to immigration and asylum law. Notwithstanding the vast literature on children’s participation on the one hand, and on […]

Law is increasingly at the center of political battles. LawTransform – the Center on Law and Social Transformation – brings together scholars, students and practitioners across institutions and academic fields focusing on law as an instrument of social change. The center is located in Bergen and established jointly by CMI and the University of Bergen, but is also […]