Units
People
Publications
Right to Love: India’s Decriminalization of Homosexuality Understood in Light of Contact
November 19, 2021
New article by LawTransform’s affiliate Vikram Kolmannskog On September 6, 2018, homosexuality was decriminalized in India. It was the result of a rights mobilization that …
Denial and blame – a result of shame?
October 1, 2021
BLOG: Parents often deny that their children are subject to physical and psychological violence – even when confronted with facts and evidence. What do care …
Social Media Abuse and Online Harassment of Child Protection Workers
October 1, 2021
BLOG: What are the implications of social media abuse and harassment for child protection workers? Blogpost by Kenneth Burns, collaborative partner at DIPA and senior lecturer …
Abortion and ‘conscientious objection’ in South Africa
September 7, 2021
New book chapter: The 1996 Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act of South Africa is hailed as one of the most exemplary liberal laws on abortion. …
An attempt to take child protection to a new level in Scotland
August 30, 2021
BLOG: When the Scottish Government attempted to take proactive child protection to a new level, it faced considerable – and, ultimately, effective – opposition. Blogpost …
Projects
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 …
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 …
News
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 …
Funding for new project: PARTICIPATION: Are Children Heard in the Child Protection System?
December 21, 2020
NEW PROJECT: Marit Skivenes, LawTransform’s Child Rights’s unit research leader, has received funding to conduct a groundbreaking study of children’s participation. – Lack of participation …
Events
Barnevernfrokost: Norge i menneskerettighetsdomstolen
May 7, 2021
Dato, tid: 1 juni 2021, kl. 09.00–09.45 Sted: Zoom Hvilke konsekvenser vil dommene fra Strasbourg få for det norske barnevernet? Den europeiske menneskerettighets-domstolen har tatt …
Book launch: Adoption from Care
May 3, 2021
Date, time: 19 May 2021, 14.30-16.00 Venue: Zoom Welcome to the launch of “Adoption from Care: International …