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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 …
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 …
Systemic Barriers and Unfairness: Access to Justice in Zimbabwe and Beyond
November 5, 2024
An article by Wesley Maraire, PhD Candidate, University of Cape Town, Department of Private Law, and a LawTransform fellow. Wesley Maraire is a member of …
El rol de la Suprema Corte en la Consolidación Democrática de México
October 25, 2016
A recently edited book that examines the role of the Mexican Supreme Court in the transition to democracy.
The Child’s Opinion and Position in Care Order Proceedings
January 8, 2016
Marit Skivenes has together with Anne-Mette Magnussen published an article on “The Child’s Opinion and Position in Care Order Proceedings: An Analysis of Judicial Discretion …
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 …
The Mexican Supreme Court and the Transition to Democracy
March 31, 2016
After more than 70 years of uninterrupted authoritarian government headed by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), in 2000 the country formally began the transition to …
Manipulating Courts in New Democracies. Forcing Judges off the Bench in Argentina
March 15, 2016
This is a solo book manuscrit published by Routledge 2018. Abstract: When do a justice leave office? Typically, a justice with life tenure would leave …
The Political Role of the South African Courts
November 29, 2013
This research project (2002-5), was a collaboration with the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (Johannesburg) investigating the role played by courts in the linked processes of …
News
Interview with Andrea Castagnola about her new publication
November 15, 2017
Andrea Castagnola is an assistant professor at the School of Politics and Government at Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina. In her new book “Manipulating …
Events
Promoting justice during conflict
November 11, 2019
Date: Wednesday 20 November Time: 08:30-09:30 Venue: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 How do diasporas promote transitional justice during conflict? Transitional justice is most often treated …
Women on the Bench
August 6, 2018
Date: Wednesday 22 August Time: 14:00–15:00 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen How is it to be a woman judge? What …