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Publications

Book chapters in Research Handbook on International Abortion Law

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 …

Special Issue: The limits of the law: Abortion in the Middle East and North Africa

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

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 …

Right to Love: India’s Decriminalization of Homosexuality Understood in Light of Contact

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 …

Abortion and ‘conscientious objection’ in South Africa

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. …

Projects

Truth and Reconciliation in a Democratic Welfare State: The Indigenous Sami and the Kven/Norwegian Finns Minority in Norway (TRUCOM)

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 …

PluriLand: Theorizing Conflict and Contestation in Plural Land Rights Regimes

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

The project aims to consolidate the Centre on Law & Social Transformation (LawTransform) as a leading hub for scholarship on the use of law as …

Political determinants of sexual and reproductive health: Criminalisation, health impacts and game changers

  Why is homosexuality (encompassing lesbian, gay, bi, trans*/LGBT) more politicized and criminalized in Africa than elsewhere? Can similar politicization of abortion be prevented? And …

Land Rights, Environmental Protection and Inclusive Development within India’s Federal System

Abstract: India faces serious challenges in constructing development paths that are socially inclusive, ecologically sustainable and politically feasible. The main goal of the research project is …

 

News

Video – Annual Lecture on Rights of Indigenous Peoples

To celebrate the Sami National Day, the third Annual Lecture on Rights of Indigenous Peoples was arranged on the 6th of February. This year’s Annual Lecturer …

Video: Constitutional reform process in Gambia

Satang Nabaneh is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria and LawTransform PhD scholar as part of the research project …

Events

Samefolkets dag: Konflikt, sanning og forsoning

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 …

Book launch: Adoption from Care

Date, time: 19 May 2021, 14.30-16.00 Venue: Zoom Welcome to the launch of “Adoption from Care: International Perspectives on Children’s Rights, Family Preservation and State …