The Supreme Court of Argentina

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 […]

Domesticating human rights: restricting child marriage in Spain

Kerstin Hamann (2024)

The International Journal of Human Rights

Kerstin Hamann is University Pegasus Professor,  Associate Dean University of Central Florida and Global Fellow for LawTransform. Her research focuses on the political role of organized labor in Western Europe, Spanish politics, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. ABSTRACT Child marriage, considered a human rights violation, occurs not just in the Global South, but […]

Legal Opportunity Structure and Legal Battles Over Sex Education and LGBTQ Students in Brazil and Colombia

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 […]

Photo from the CPHIA website. Maternal Health Financing and Postpartum Detentions: Political Will as an Underlying Determinant for Respectful Maternity Care in Kenya

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 […]

Evaluating India’s Engagement with the Universal Periodic Review: A Focus on Women’s Rights

Bhavya Gupta (2024)

Revista Direito GV

An article by Bhavya Gupta, a PhD Candidate in the School of International Studies (SIS) at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU, India), and a LawTransform fellow. Bhavya Gupta 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: […]

Systemic Barriers and Unfairness: Access to Justice in Zimbabwe and Beyond

Wesley Maraire (2024)

Revista Direito GV

An article by Wesley Maraire, PhD Candidate, University of Cape Town, Department of Private Law, and a LawTransform fellow. Wesley Maraire 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 his full article here. Abstract: Citizens in plural legal and cultural […]

Den gode «fiende»: Fra flyktninger til seksuelle minoriteter

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 […]

Democratic Rollback in Africa

Lise Rakner (2019)

Rakner, L. (2018). "Democratic Rollback in Africa". In: Cheeseman, N. (2019). The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Politics. Oxford University Press.

There is a global trend of democratic retrenchment across the world, in both new and more established democracies. The African continent is part of the trend, although there are distinct regional variances on the continent. Yet, despite democratic gains in some states and along some dimensions of democratic rights, the overall trend is that the […]

Diktatorens lærebok: Kapittelet om Tanzania

Lise Rakner (2018)

Rakner, L. (2018). "Diktatorens lærebok: Kapittelet om Tanzania". Bistandsaktuelt, 12.11.2018.

Lise Rakner (2018) MENINGER: Det går utforbakke med demokratiet og rettsstaten i Tanzania, skriver professor Lise Rakner. Stormangrepet på alle som kunne tenkes å kritisere regjeringspartiet (CCM) i Tanzania kan så langt i 2018 noterer følgende seire: Den nye Internettloven (Online Content Act) gir regjeringen ubegrenset rett til å overvåke alt som publiseres på nett […]

Demokrati i forfall

Lise Rakner (2017)

Agenda Magasin, Akademisk Spalte, 30.10.17 Demokratiet er ingen selvfølge og kan forvitre foran øynene på oss om vi ikke er våkne. Forskere, journalister og aktivister verden over synes å være enige om at den liberale demokratimodellen nå er under sterkt press. I Afrika, Latin-Amerika og Asia, samt USA og Europa, ser vi en paradoksal utvikling: […]