Units
People
Publications
“All women’s wombs are caught up in these politics”: Interview with Maya Unnithan
September 23, 2026
Maya Unnithan is a social and medical anthropologist at the Department of Anthropology at Sussex and Director of the Centre for Cultures of Reproduction Technologies …
“And so nowadays, the average face of the anti-gender, anti-rights movement could look like you guys”: Neil Datta and the anti-gender movement in Europe.
September 10, 2026
Neil Datta, the Executive Director and founder of the European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (EPF), has worked in coordination with members of …
The Nordic Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: A new TRC model for resolving historic and ongoing violations of indigenous rights
December 4, 2024
A book chapter by Elin Skaar, a Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), where she heads the research cluster on Rights and Legal …
Personal Identity Rights Development and Recent Adoption Cases at the European Court of Human Rights
November 28, 2024
Blogpost by: Professor Jill Marshall, Professor of Law, Royal Holloway, University of London BLOG: We may all think we know what ‘personal identity’ means, but what …
Opening the discussion about adoption from care in Finland – wrong place, right time?
November 28, 2024
Blogpost by: Petra Järvinen, Doctoral Researcher, Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, and visiting scholar at the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA) in April …
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 …
Protecting child rights and public safety
October 18, 2024
Project Team: Linda Gröning, Marit Skivenes, Ingun Fornes, Siri Gloppen Timeframe: 2025 – 2030 The PROTECT project will study how to protect children’s rights while …
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 …
Riverine Rights: Exploring the Currents and Consequences of Legal Innovations on the Rights of Rivers
September 24, 2020
Timeframe: 01.07.2020 – 31.12.2023 Funding source: Norges forskningsråd Project owner: OsloMet, Faculty of Education and International Studies Project manager: Axel Borchgrevink Partner institutions: Norwegian University of Life Sciences …
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
New Project on Children’s Rights and Crime Prevention
October 18, 2024
Linda Gröning from the Faculty of Law (PI) and Marit Skivenes (co-PI) from the Department of Government and Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA) …
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 …
Events
Indigenous Rights and Climate Change
April 3, 2025
In this seminar Thalia Viveros-Uehara examines the role of courts and constitutions in shaping the legal and political dimensions of Indigenous rights within the climate …
Lost in Implementation: Lawless Intimacy & Legal Inconsistencies in Malaysian Islamic Law
October 31, 2024
Nurul Huda Mohd. Razif is a social anthropologist and Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bergen. She studied Anthropology and French at the …