Elin Skaar (2024)
Ray Aldred, John Klaasen, and Line M. Skum: Cultivating Transformative Reconciliation (ReconTrans Volume II). PICKWICK Publications
A book chapter by Elin Skaar, a Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), where she heads the research cluster on Rights and Legal Institutions and is Coordinator for the Transitional justice Unit. The indigenous Sami and the Kven (a cross-border minority group) in the Nordic countries have long discussed the possibilty, and desirability, […]
Andrea Castagnola, Alejandro Chehtman, Sergio Muro (2024)
Constitutional Reasoning in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Critical Analysis
We are pleased to introduce you the chapter written by our fellow Andrea Castagnola and her colleagues in the book “Constitutional Reasoning in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Critical Analysis”. This chapter analyzes the constitutional reasoning of the Argentine Supreme Court, focusing on its institutional, historical, and legal contexts. Argentina offers a unique study […]
Andrea Castagnola, Gabriela Bonzi, Shirley Franco and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán (2024)
Judicial Activism in Comparative Perspective
A publication by Andrea Castagnola and her colleagues. The article examines the role of constitutional justice in countries with low judicial independence, focusing on Paraguay as a case study. Scholars typically expect courts in such environments to exhibit weak and deferential behavior due to close ties with ruling elites or fear of retaliation. However, Paraguay’s […]
Thalia Viveros-Uehara (2024)
Revista Direito GV
An article by Thalia Viveros-Uehara, PhD Candidate, School for Global Inclusion and Social Development, University of Massachusetts Boston, and a LawTransform fellow. Thalia Viveros-Uehara is a member of the South-South Network, a group dedicated to amplifying the voices of Global South researchers in crucial socio-legal debates. Read her full article here. Abstract: The increasing reliance […]
Ana de Mello Côrtes (2024)
Open Global Rights
Check here Ana de Mello Côrtes‘ most recent publication, the blogpost Governing assisted reproduction at Open Global Rights. Ana de Mello Côrtes is a Queer rights researcher and activist, a fellow at LawTransform (CMI-UiB Centre on Law & Social Transformation), and an affiliated researcher at the University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research. The blogpost […]
Ana Côrtes (2023)
de Mello Côrtes, A. Ruth Rubio-Marín, Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women's Citizenship: A Struggle for Transformative Inclusion. Jindal Global Law Review (2023)
Guest researcher at LawTransform Ana Côrtes has written a book review on Global Gender Constitutionalism and Women’s Citizenship: A Struggle for Transformative Inclusion, which has been published in the Jindal Global Law Review. The book is written by Ruth Rubio-Marín and addresses the history of constitutionalism with women as the point of reference. Rubio-Márin launched the book at last years Bergen Exchanges […]
Lise Rakner (2019)
Rakner, L. (2019). "Den gode «fiende»: Fra flyktninger til seksuelle minoriteter". Agenda Magasin, 09.04.2019.
Hvorfor kjører Polens nasjonal-konservative regjeringsparti LHBT-motstand som viktigste valgkamptema foran Europaparlamentsvalget i mai? Under slagordet «Ikke rør barna» har regjeringspartiet «Lov og rettferdighetspartiet» (PiS) i Polen kritisert forslaget til seksualundervisning i skolen. Det er utviklet av Verdens Helseorganisasjon (WHO), og godkjent i landets hovedstad, Warszawa. PiS sterke mann, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, har valgt å gjøre LHBT-spørsmål […]
Malcolm Langford, Co-Director of Centre on Law and Social Transformation, has, written the article “Critiques of Human Rights” (Annual Review of Law and Social Science). Social science–inflected critiques of human rights are hardly new.1 A critical and empirical literature on human rights law, discourses, and movements was already present in the late 1990s (Baxi 1998, Hafner […]
Langford, M., Rodríguez-Garavito, C. & Rossi, J. (2017)
Cambridge University Press
Malcolm Langford, Co-Director of Centre on Law and Social Transformation, has, together with César Rodríguez-Garavito and Julieta Rossi, edited the book “Social Rights Jugdments and the Politics of Compliance. Making it stick” (Cambridge University Press). Among the contributors are Global Fellows of LawTransform Bruce Wilson and Daniel M. Brinks. “The past few decades have witnessed an […]
Marit Skivenes (UiB) and Anne-Mette Magnussen (HiB) (2015)
International Journal of Children's Rights
Marit Skivenes has together with Anne-Mette Magnussen published an article on “The Child’s Opinion and Position in Care Order Proceedings: An Analysis of Judicial Discretion in the County Boards’ Decision-Making” in the International Journal of Children’s Rights. This paper examines whether, and in what way, the child participates in care order decisions heard by the […]
The Nordic Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: A new TRC model for resolving historic and ongoing violations of indigenous rights
