Intpart II
People
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 …
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 …
Evaluating India’s Engagement with the Universal Periodic Review: A Focus on Women’s Rights
November 5, 2024
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 …
Projects
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 …
LawTransform: Effects of Rights & Law
August 27, 2018
The project aims to consolidate the Centre on Law & Social Transformation (LawTransform) as a leading hub for scholarship on the use of law as …
Breaking BAD: Understanding the Backlash Against Democracy in Africa
July 4, 2017
Project team: Lise Rakner (Project leader), Leonardo Arriola, Siri Gloppen , Kendra Dupuy, Vibeke Wang, Fiona Shen-Bayh, Svein-Erik Helle (post-doctoral fellow) and Lisa-Marie Måseidvåg Selvik (PhD candidate). …
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 …
South-South Network Special Issue – October 18th
October 8, 2024
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 …
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. …