Date: Wednesday 21 August Time: 09:00-10:00 Venue: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 How do we move beyond the ‘paradigm wars’ between different methods and draw on different disciplines to answer complex socio-legal questions? A pluralistic and multimethod approach offers the possibility of transcending ‘what is already known’ and mobilising a wide palette of qualitative, quantitative, doctrinal […]
Date: Wednesday 21 August Time: 15:00-17:00 Venue: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 Want to understand the different types of methods available for research? Intrigued by new methodologies in the social sciences? In a series of open parallel sessions, participants will learn more about different methods in socio-legal studies. Researchers will discuss how they investigate the origins, […]
Date: Wednesday 21 August Time: 10:15-11:45 Venue: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 The LawTransform project “Breaking BAD: Backlash Against Democracy in Africa” asks whether the picture often painted of democratic backsliding in Africa is a fair representation of what is happening across the continent, and how we can best capture the dynamics driving the contestations over […]
Date: 23 August 2019 Time: 09:00-11:00 Venue: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 Legal technology: a field guide to ethical problematization and reflection Keynote by Kristin Sandvik (University of Oslo and PRIO) While the introduction of new technology may –finally – transform a conservative legal field, it also creates new forms of digital risk and new possibilities […]
Date: Tuesday 20 August Time: 19:00-20:30 Venue: Kunstgarasjen This event is part of the Bergen Exchanges 2019. For a full schedule of the week’s events, see here. Ande Somby (University of Tromsø) in conversation with Siri Gloppen At this event, Ande Somby (Artist and Law Professor at the University of Tromsø) will discuss the political […]
Date: Friday 23 August Time: 12:00-13:00 Venue: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 This event is part of the Bergen Exchanges 2019. For a full schedule of the week’s events, see here. Lecture by Jeroen van der Sluijs The rapid increase in the use of evidence to legitimise decisions reflects a pervasive idea that more science equals […]
Date: Thursday 22 August Time: 11:15-12:15 Venue: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 This event is part of the Bergen Exchanges 2019. For a full schedule of the week’s events, see here. Worldwide, indigenous peoples are mobilising against the neoliberalisation of nature, demonstrating radically different ways of knowing, being and living. To what extent can domestic and […]
Date: 19 August 2019 Time: 14:30-15:30 Venue: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 This event is part of the Bergen Exchanges 2019. For a full schedule of the week’s events, see here. Political corruption – the use of political office for personal gain – takes many forms. Corruption allegations and selective prosecutions against political opponents is also […]
Date: 20 August 2019 Time: 09:00-10:30 Venue: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 This event is part of the Bergen Exchanges 2019. For a full schedule of the week’s events, see here. The increasing recognition and inclusion of legal pluralism in national political systems, and innovations in indigenous governance structures raises challenges related to intersectionality and intra-group […]
Date: Thursday 22 August Time: 12:30-13:30 Venue: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 This event is part of the Bergen Exchanges 2019. For a full schedule of the week’s events, see here. Great efforts are invested in negotiations to secure international agreement on regulatory systems to limit global warming. But are global regimes for climate change mitigation […]