As a part of the 2024 Bergen Exchanges, we got an update on the preliminary findings within the PluriLand project.

At the beginning of this month, PluriLand organised a workshop at the Institute of Legal Research at Mexico’s National Autonomous University to discuss advances in the team’s research and gain generous feedback from experts in the field. In this two-day workshop, PluriLand reviewed the work that has been accomplished so far with the project, and […]

A Bergen Exchanges 2023 event. Indigenous and traditional land rights are protected in many legal systems. Still, conflicts over land affecting vulnerable communities are rapidly escalating across the globe and are often highly transnational.

Date/Time: 25 August 2022, 17:15-18:15 Venue: Kulturhuset and Zoom Climate change mitigation and adaptation policies – such as development of energy sources to replace fossil fuels – are almost invariably land-demanding. And hydroelectric dams and windmill parks are often constructed on land belonging to and used by indigenous peoples, resulting in conflicts where indigenous peoples’ […]

Minority protection is a central element of constitutional democracy – and vulnerable minorities are particularly at risk when populists mobilize against liberal-democratic constraints on power. 

Date: 5 February 2021 Time: 15.00:16.30 Norwegian time (8.00-9.30 a.m. Guatemala time) Venue: Zoom/Youtube To celebrate the Sami National Day, LawTransform, in collaboration with the Bergen Sami Society, invites you the 4th Annual Lecture on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Francisco Calí Tzay, the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples will speak […]

Date, time: 14 August 2020, 15.00-16.30 Webinar   Join us at the launch of new LawTransform project PluriLand! #BeEx2020 Zoom link: https://uib.zoom.us/j/65680043430?pwd=RUhESzJ1dGY5TzJ1YVJUTUZQaWhxZz09 Password: pN$d2EGz / 98289416 Project will run from August 2020 to 2023. It aims to develop a theory of land rights claiming in plural legal regimes through cross-regional investigation of conflicts over land […]