South-South Network Special Issue – October 18th

We are excited to announce the launch of the South-South Network Special Issue on October 18th! Published by Direito GV, this special issue rethinks inequalities through Southern voices, featuring groundbreaking research and case studies on social, gender, sexual, and structural inequality in Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, India, Zimbabwe, and Kenya. The event will be held […]

South-South Network

Have you ever learned about inequality from Global South Intellectuals? Probably not. Articles authored by Global South researchers represent 16% of the ones published in the top 20 global development journals between 1990 and 2019, whereas 73% were authored by Global North researchers[1][2]. Further, Southern-authored articles get fewer citations per article than Northern-authored articles[3]. Hence, CMI-UiB Centre on Law & Social Transformation affiliates created a South-South network to strengthen its members to fight this exclusionary scenario, to give the voices of young socio-legal scholars from Latin America, Africa, and Asia a broader reach and to help them to become protagonists in the debates involving them.

Our network members are conducting research in an unprecedented manner. From the perspective of scholars embedded in the context, we go beyond the economic struggle to explore social, gender, sexual, and structural inequality and show how these different aspects often overlap. Legal changes towards equality took place in our home countries – Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe – and were able to produce social transformation to an extent, even though some challenges remain, as we highlight in our research.

The network was conceived and is coordinated by Lívia Buzolin, Brazilian guest researcher at the CMI-UiB Centre on Law & Social Transformation from August to November 2022, under the supervision of the Centre’s co-directors Siri Gloppen and Liv Tønnessen.

In June 2023, the South-South Network presented their work in a panel at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting in Puerto Rico. The panel was a success and the conference was great fun!

Are you interested in joining? Write to livia_gb@hotmail.com!


Current members:

Amanda Mellilo de Matos

Adrian Jjuuko

Ana Braconnier de León

Ana Côrtes

Bhavya Gupta

Cecilia Barreto de Almeida

Felicia Ikpokonte

Juliana Jaramillo

Kerigo Odada

Larissa Cristina Margarido

Lívia Gonçalves Buzolin

Thalia Viveros-Uehara

Wesley Maraire


[1]  The remaining 11% are collaborations.

[2] See: Veronica Amarante. 2021. Ronelle Burger, Grieve Chelwa, John Cockburn, Ana Kassouf, Andrew McKay and Julieta Zurbrigg. “Underrepresentation of developing country researchers in development research” Applied Economics Letters 29 (17): 1659-1664.  

[3] Ibidem

The Pursuit of an Appropriate Dispute Resolution Philosophy for Africa

Wesley Maraire (2024)

Journal of African Law 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021855324000251

A research article by Wesley Maraire, Senior Executive Officer, Project Manager & Communications, University of Bergen, 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. Appropriate Dispute Resolution (ADR) is rooted […]

LawTransform represents the University of Bergen (UiB) at CHARM-EU Annual Conference 2024

On 5 November the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary, hosted the CHARM-EU Annual Conference 2024 “Intercultural Learning and European Universities”, bringing together delegates from the nine universities part of the alliance. The panel Global South Perspectives in European Higher Education was chaired by Priscila Alvarez-Cueva (University of Barcelona) and had Marjanneke Vijge (Utrecht […]

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: […]

Young Brazilian Wives: Child Marriage, Girls’ Marginalisation, and Agency

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: […]

Climate Change and Inequality: Pushing the Boundaries of Judicialization

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 […]

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

Wesley Maraire (2024)

Revista Direito GV

An article by Wesley Maraire, Senior Executive Officer, Project Manager & Communications, University of Bergen, 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 […]