Ongoing projects
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Publications
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 …
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 …
Legal Opportunity Structure and Legal Battles Over Sex Education and LGBTQ Students in Brazil and Colombia
November 5, 2024
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 …
Maternal Health Financing and Postpartum Detentions: Political Will as an Underlying Determinant for Respectful Maternity Care in Kenya
November 5, 2024
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 …
Projects
Mindful Justice: Aligning Police Practices and State Accountability
October 22, 2024
Collaborators: Center for Legal Resources (Romania), Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (Norway), LawTransform (Norway) The project aims to research and compare legal and forensic practices in …
Truth Commissions and Sexual Violence: African and Latin American Experiences
November 10, 2022
Sexual violence committed during war or internal armed conflict is a major global challenge. It has mostly remained under-addressed during transitions from conflict and repressive …
Rights Activism under Political Uncertainty (RightAct)
June 10, 2022
Project team: Project leader: Leonardo Arriola Liv Tønnessen, Matthew Gichohi, Lise Rakner, Siri Gloppen, Arsène Brice Bardo, Jaimie Bleck, Alyssa Heinze, Jane Mango Angar, Johanna …
Autocratization Dynamics: Innovations in Research-Embedded Learning
April 8, 2022
Project Leader: Lise Rakner (UiB) Funding: Norwegian Research Council (NRC) & HK-dir 10 mill NOK “Autocratization Dynamics” aims to further strengthen UiB-CMI LawTransform as a global …
Rethinking democracy & law
September 18, 2020
This project rethinks the way teaching is done in the field of Democracy & Law. It does so by building a new four-way collaboration …
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 …
Spotlight on the Rights Research Agenda
November 15, 2024
Something you might not have noticed during the chaotic times of Bergen Exchanges, some of our most prominent alumni working on the joint CMI/LawTransform Rights …
Events
Social Media and Democracy: Influence, Distortion and Resistance
September 25, 2024
Are you confident in your ability to identify fake news? Do you believe disinformation is a significant challenge in today’s world? And what about the …
Gendered Autocratization. PhD Conference 21-22 March with open and streamed keynotes and roundtables.
February 8, 2024
Are you a PhD student and interested in the politics of gender and sexual and reproductive rights? This 2-day Conference-format PhD course is for you. …