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Publications
Book chapters in Research Handbook on International Abortion Law
April 11, 2023
LawTransform co-director Liv Tønnessen and other LawTransform affiliates and PhD course alums have contributed with chapters in the newly published Research Handbook on International Abortion …
Reunification philosophy, practice and research: We can do better for families
August 4, 2022
Blogpost by Jill Duerr Berrick, Zellerbach Family Foundation Professor at U.C. Berkeley, U.S., and Professor II at the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism, UiB, …
Special Issue: The limits of the law: Abortion in the Middle East and North Africa
May 30, 2022
The Political Determinants of sexual and reproductive health project published in December 2019 a special issue in the Journal of Health and Human Rights. The …
Special issue: Abortion Lawfare in Latin America – Some Readings Keys For a Changing Scenario
May 30, 2022
In 2021, the LawTransform projects Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America, Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare: Global Battles and Political Determinants of Sexual and Reproductive Health …
Water Rights Book
May 27, 2022
New book by Professor Bruce M. Wilson, University of Central Florida/CMI/LawTransform & Evelyn Villarreal F., research coordinator at the Programa Estado de la Nación The …
Projects
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 …
Truth and Reconciliation in a Democratic Welfare State: The Indigenous Sami and the Kven/Norwegian Finns Minority in Norway (TRUCOM)
February 5, 2020
This project will study how Norway – a well-established democratic welfare state – attempts to settle the negative effects of long-lasting policies of assimilation and …
Cosmopolitan Turn and Democratic Sentiments
January 10, 2020
The CONSENT-project will study the children’s rights situation in Norway and Romania. All children possess rights as declared in the United Nations Convention on the …
Legitimacy Challenges
January 8, 2020
The premise for the LEGITIMACY project is that the mobilization against the Norwegian child protection system is but one piece in a larger picture about …
PluriLand: Theorizing Conflict and Contestation in Plural Land Rights Regimes
January 8, 2020
Advisory board: Daniel Brinks, Aninka Claassens, Duncan Kennedy and Alf Gunvald Nilsen. The PluriLand project aims to develop a theory of land rights claiming in …
News
Water | Special Issue: Water and Sanitation as Human Rights: Have They Strengthened Marginalized Peoples’ Claim for Access?
December 13, 2021
The team working on LawTransform’s project Elevating water rights to human rights: Has it strengthened marginalized peoples’ claim for water? has created a special issue …
Check out Rachel Sieder’s blog piece on the Pluriland project
June 17, 2021
Frontiers of Social-Legal Studies, the new blog of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford, has just published Rachel Sieder‘s blog piece …
Events
Samefolkets dag: Konflikt, sanning og forsoning
February 2, 2023
Elin Monstad (UiB), Per Selle (UiB), Felizia Sara-Skree (Bergen Sameforeining), Kai Grieg (FN-sambandet) og Elin Skaar (CMI) I anledning Samefolkets dag måndag 6. februar, inviterer Center for Law and Social Transformation (LawTransform) til frukostseminar. Møtet …
RDV: Brazil: Deciding in times of crisis
January 20, 2023
Time: 23. February, 14:15 Place: Jekteviksbakken 31 or Zoom. Karina Denari (FGV São Paulo Law School), Siri Gloppen (UiB) and Larissa Margarido (FGV São Paulo Law School). …