Gendered politics of Autocratization in Africa

Transnational campaigns challenging sexual and reproductive health and rights, gender equality, and human rights more broadly have grown in recent years, gaining significant momentumacross many countries and regions. Globally, issues related to women’s rights – abortion and reproductive health services, comprehensive sex education, and protections against gender-based violence (including female genital mutilation and child marriage), […]

LGBT Rights Recognition in Brazil

Ana de Mello Côrtes, Lívia Gonçalves Buzolin (2024)

Sexual Research and Social Policy

  How to comprehend LGBT rights recognition processes in Brazil broadly? With a little help from my friends! We, the authors of the recently published article on “Paths Towards LGBT Rights Recognition in Brazil”, were already colleagues and graduated from the same master’s program. However, it took a LawTransform Seminar and a suggestion from Siri […]

Comparing Child Protection Laws: Insights from Constitutional Courts

  As part of our RDV-webinar series with the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism , LawTransform hosted a lecture by Conor O’Mahony, Professor at the University College Cork, at Bergen Global on  child rights cases in constitutions around the world, identifying common themes and assessing the significance of children’s constitutional rights within the […]

GOD IS A WOMAN – CineLatino. Free tickets & Meet the Director Andrés Peyrot

GOD IS A WOMAN is a beautiful, complex, and extremely well made documentary about the indigenous Guna people in Panama and their rights to their history and identity, directed by Andrés Peyrot. LawTransform is offering 60 free tickets to the Cine Latino screening, which also includes an exclusive meet-the-director event where Carmeliza Rosario (CMI) interviews […]

TOLL: Free Cine Latino Screening & Queer Reflections

‘TOLL’  is a stylish and warm Brazilian drama about conversion therapy, crime and good intentions. In collaboration with Cine Latino,  LawTransform and SkeivForsk (the UiB Queer Research Network) hosts a free-of-charge viewing of the highly acclaimed film, directed by Carolina Markowicz. There will be a panel discussion after the viewing.   About TOLL: The flamboyant Antonio […]

Are Norwegian prisons perfect?

Davi Málaga (2024)

This blogpost reflects part of Davi Mendes Málaga’s Ph.D. research on the field of Administration, with focus in Public Administration and Policy. In this work, this scholar is currently studying imprisonment and incarceration through a public policy standpoint, the different traditions in prison policy, as well as the way that policy choices affect the policy […]

Ten years of Russia’s war against Ukraine

Together with Bergen Global, LawTransform is hosting day long conference on the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia, and the effects and challenges it has placed on European integration, Ukrainian resilience and international law. Russia has been waging war on Ukraine for a decade: annexation of Crimea, followed by the war in Eastern Ukraine since […]

Fosen-cases exists all over the world – but do they improve indigenous peoples’ rights?

Siri Gloppen (2024)

Panorama

By Siri Gloppen  (Written as an op-ed in Panorama (in Norwegian) as part of the PluriLand project) Despite the special protection given to indigenous peoples under international law, abuses against indigenous peoples and those who fight for their rights continue. What does it take for the courts to protect indigenous rights? And does winning in […]

Choice and Conscience. New book by Satang Nabaneh.

Satang Nabaneh (2023)

Nabaneh, Satang. Choice and conscience: Lessons from South Africa for a global debate. Pretoria University Law Press, 2023.

Satang Nabane’s recent book Choice and Conscience (available open access here) offers a fresh and insightful perspective on the highly debated issue of conscientious objection in abortion care. Satang Nabaneh’s socio-legal approach, which draws on both traditional legal scholarship and African feminist intellectual traditions, provides a nuanced understanding of how legal norms construct and maintain […]