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 […]
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 […]
Ana Côrtes, Juliana Jaramillo (2024)
Revista Direito GV
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. Juliana Jaramillo is a PhD candidate in Development Studies at Universidad de los Andes (Colombia, and a LawTransform fellow. Ana […]
Kerigo Odada (2024)
Revista Direito GV
An article by Kerigo Odada, a lawyer, researcher, and advocate with a particular focus on the right to health, specifically sexual and reproductive health and rights. She is a Ph.D. researcher and academic associate at the Centre for Human Rights University of Pretoria. Her research focuses on Obstetric Violence and the Legal Mobilisation For Respectful […]
Larissa Cristina Margarido (2024)
Revista Direito GV
An article by Larissa Cristina Margarido, a PhD candidate in Law and Development at FGV Sao Paulo Law School (Brazil), and a LawTransform fellow. Larissa Cristina Margarido is a part 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: […]
Satang Nabaneh (2024)
Human Rights in Context
Check here Dr Satang Nabaneh‘s most recent publication, the blogpost Gender Trouble: Glocalization of Sexual Education at Human Rights in Context. Dr Satang Nabaneh is an award-winning legal scholar, educator, researcher, and human rights practitioner. She is the Director of Programs at the University of Dayton Human Rights Center and a Global Fellow at the […]
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 […]
LawTransform co-director Liv Tønnessen and other LawTransform affiliates and PhD course alums have contributed with chapters in the newly published Research Handbook on International Abortion Law edited by Mary Ziegler, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, University of California, Davis School of Law, US. The book provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary study of abortion law […]
LGBT Rights Recognition in Brazil
