Program

*Venue is Bergen Resource Centre for International Development (Jekteviksbakken 31), unless otherwise noted

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Thursday 16 August

15:30-17:00: Coral Whispers: Breathing Law into Life

Monday 20 August

09:00-09:30: Formal opening of the 2018 Bergen Exchanges

09:30-11:00: Keynote address by Norman Daniels: Human Rights and Fair Priorities in Health

11:15-12:15: Litigating health rights: what happened with the mega-judgments?

12:30-13:30: Abortion lawfare

14:30-16:00: Children’s climate change litigation: Future generations’ rights to a healthy environment

18:00-19:30: Evening Exchanges: The role of law in global (and national) health governance Det Juridiske Fakultet, UiB

Tuesday 21 August

09:00-10:15: Corruption and health

10:30-11:20: Researching intersectionality

11:30-12:30: Criminalisation of queer sexuality: political drivers and health effects

12:40-13:30: Beyond virtue and vice: Rethinking sex, health and criminal law

18:00-19:30: Evening Exchanges: Law, politics and adolescent sexual and reproductive health: evidence of impact Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, Kalfaveien 31

Wednesday 22 August

10:00-11:00: Law and technology

11:15-12:15: Authoritarian constitutionalism

12:30-13:30: Judging democratic backlash

14:00-15:00: Women on the Bench

15:30-17:30: Annual Lecture on Law and Social Transformation by Sally Engle Merry – From human rights to local justice and the quiet power of indicators Bergen University Aula 

Thursday 23 August 

9:00-10:30: Children’s right to child friendly justice

10:40-12:10: Changing the system from within: influencing front level practice and politicians’ mindset

12:20-13:30: Making professional decisions and judgments

13:45-14:30: Chr. Michelsen Prize lunch with Maja Janmyr

14:30-15:30: Children’s right to health: Childhood obesity

18:00-19:30: Evening Exchanges: Keynote address by Helen Stalford: Children on the Run University of Bergen Faculty of Law, Auditorium 4

Friday 24 August

9:00-10:00: Child’s best interest principle

10:10-11:10: The European Court of Human Rights and child’s rights

11:20-12:20: International rights and cultural practices?

12:30-13:30: The critique of child protection and children’s rights 

14:30-15:30: The right to water, urban governance and health

15:40-16:30: Innovative teaching on law and social changes

16:30-17:00: Closing of the 2018 Bergen Exchanges