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Lost in Implementation: Lawless Intimacy & Legal Inconsistencies in Malaysian Islamic Law 

Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif is a social anthropologist and Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bergen. She studied Anthropology and French at the University of Western Australia and Sciences Po Paris, before receiving her PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge in 2018. She has held research fellowships at Harvard Law School and centers for Southeast Asian Studies in Leiden, Paris, and Kyoto. She works primarily on the intersection of Islam, intimacy, and the state in the Malay world and Muslim Southeast Asia. 

Children and Rights to Identity at the European Court of Human Rights

In her presentation, Jill Marshall examines how human rights law, particularly the European Court of Human Rights, has developed the right to personal identity under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Building on previous work, she focuses on the Court’s case law relating to children, analyzing how personal identity is protected and interpreted. Marshall critiques the role of human rights law in shaping personal identities from birth and explores what the Court has achieved and could achieve in this area.

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 […]

Can art change the world? Revisit the Annual Lecture on Indigenous Rights

Can art change the world? Ande Somby gave this year’s Annual Lecture on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights For the 7th time, LawTransform, in collaboration with Bergen Sámiid Searvi (Bergen Sami Association), organised the Annual Lecture on Indigenous Rights. The lecture is held in February, as a celebration of the Sami National Day.  This year, focused was […]

Samefolkets dag: Konflikt, sanning og forsoning

Elin Monstad (UiB), Per Selle (UiB), Felizia Sara-Skree (Bergen Sameforeining), Kai Grieg (FN-sambandet) og Elin Skaar (CMI) I anledning Samefolkets dag måndag 6. februar, inviterer Center for Law and Social Transformation (LawTransform) til frukostseminar. Møtet vert arrangert fysisk i Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 (ingen streaming). Lett frukost vert servert. Se også Facebook-arrangement. Samtalen vil handle om arbeidet til den norske sannings- og forsoningskommisjonen som er […]

RDV: Brazil: Deciding in times of crisis

Time: 23. February, 14:15 Place: Jekteviksbakken 31 or Zoom.     Karina Denari (FGV São Paulo Law School), Siri Gloppen (UiB) and Larissa Margarido (FGV São Paulo Law School). Constitutional Courts have become central actors in political, institutional and social crises. Decision-making in times of crisis amplify challenges of judicial compliance and may expose not only the Court but […]