2024
People
Publications
Legalised resistance to democratisation in common law Africa
February 17, 2025
Siri Gloppen and Lise Rakner are out with a highly relevant article in Third World Quaterly. In their article: “Legalised resistance to democratisation in common …
The Supreme Court of Argentina
November 27, 2024
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 …
Judicial activism in Paraguay: a reactive form of compensatory justice
November 22, 2024
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 …
Domesticating human rights: restricting child marriage in Spain
November 21, 2024
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 …
Judicial Tenure and Retirements
November 18, 2024
A chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Judicial Behaviour on Judicial Tenure and Retirements by Andrea Castagnola, adjunct professor at the University Torcuato Di …
News
LawTransform represents the University of Bergen (UiB) at CHARM-EU Annual Conference 2024
December 3, 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 …
New LawTransform Co-Director
November 1, 2024
Lise Rakner takes over as Co-Director of LawTransform, from 1. November 2024 until 1 August 2025 and will share the directorship with Liv Tønnessen of …
Events
10 Years of LawTransform – Revisit our History
September 27, 2024
LawTransform - the CMI-UiB Centre on Law & Social Transformation - has turned 10 years! We celebrated throughout the week of the Bergen Exchanges with …