Workshop: Studying courts and legal mobilization

Programme

Wednesday 20 August:

12:00               Lunch
13:00 Welcome and opening (Siri Gloppen, Malcolm Langford)
13:30 Overview of the Field (Chair: Charles Ngwena)Quantitative approaches to:

  • the study of legal mobilization (Theresa Squatrito)
  • the study of judicial behaviour (Gunnar Grendstad)
  • the study of judicial independence (Andrea Castagnola)
15:00                           Coffee & Tea  
15:30 Overview of the Field (continued) (Chair:  Lise Rakner)Quantitative approaches to:

  • the study of effects of courts and legal mobilization (Daniel Brinks)
  • the study of attitudinal effects (Elisabeth Ivarsflaten)
17:00 The Sexual and Reproducive Rights Lawfare projectSiri Gloppen: Introduction to the SRR projectMalcolm Langford    Quantitative Methods and Sexual and Reproductive Rights: The State of Research
19:00 Informal dinner (Sølvberget 22)

Thursday 21 August : Work in Progress
Commentators: Daniel Brinks, Alison Johnston

9:00       Sexual and Reproducive Rights Lawfare  (Chair: Siri Gloppen)
Malcolm Langford, Vegard Vibe & Tori L Kirkebø: Quantifying Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare: An Emerging Database
Bruce Wilson & Camila Gianella: Studying effects of LGBT lawfare in Latin America
Paola Bergallo: Problems of judicial data
10:30 Coffee & Tea
10:45 Public opinion on sexual and reproductive rights(Chair: Maja Janmyr, Comments: Elisabeth Ivarsflaten)
Camila Gianella: Public polls – good tool to assess support to abortion?
Malcolm Langford: Public Opinion and Sexual and Reproductive Rights: An Experimental Survey on the Role of Courts”
Lise Bjånesøy: Populist radical right voters in Western Europe: Testing the three-dimensional political space hypotheses, and the surprising issue of gay rights.
12:15 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00     Judicial politics (Chair: Bruce Wilson)
Jon Kåre Skiple & Henrik L. Bentsen: Using multi-level analysis to study court decisions
Andrea Castagnola: Legacies of Judicial Instability in Latin America
14:00 – 14:30  Coffe & Tea
Svein-Erik Helle: Courts in Elections
Theresa Squatrito: Access to International Courts: Legitimacy Enhancing?
Malcolm Langford: Quantifying Social Rights Adjudication
16:00     Closing

 

Participants:  
Daniel Brinks (University of Texas at Austin/CMI) danbrinks@austin.utexas.edu
Bruce Wilson (University of Central Florida/CMI) Bruce.Wilson@ucf.edu
Charles Ngwena (University of Pretoria) charlesngwena@gmail.com
Paola Bergallo (University of Palermo, Buenos Aires) paola.bergallo@gmail.com
Alison Johnston (Oregon State University)Alison.Johnston@oregonstate.edu
Theresa Squatrito (PluriCourts, University of Oslo) theresa.squatrito@jus.uio.no
Stephanie Schmolzer (PluriCourts, University of Oslo stephanie.schmolzer@jus.uio.no
Malcolm Langford (NCHR, University of Oslo /CMI) malcolm.langford@nchr.uio.no
Tori Loven Kirkebø (University of Oslo) tkirkebo@gmail.com
Gunnar Grendstad (Comparative Politics, UiB) Gunnar.Grendstad@isp.uib.no
Elisabeth Ivarsflaten (Comparative Politics, UiB) elisabeth.ivarsflaten@isp.uib.no
Siri Gloppen (Comparative Politics, UiB(CMI) siri.gloppen@cmi.no
Andrea Castagnola (Comparative Politics, UiB) andrea.castagnola@flacso.edu.mx
Camila Gianella (Comparative Politics, UiB) camila.gianella@gmail.com
Vegard Vibe (Comparative Politics, UiB) Vegard.Vibe@aorg.uib.no
Lise Rakner  (Comparative Politics, UiB/CMI) lise.rakner@isp.uib.no
Svein-Erik Helle (Comparative Politics, UiB) Svein-Erik.Helle@isp.uib.no
Jon Kåre Skiple (Comparative Politics, UiB) Jon.Skiple@isp.uib.no
Henrik Litleré Bentsen  (Comparative Politics, UiB) Henrik.Bentsen@isp.uib.no
Lise Lund Bjånesøy (Comparative Politics, UiB)Lise.Bjanesoy@svfa.uib.no
Olav Bjørnebekk (Comparative Politics, UiB)     Olav.Bjornebekk@student.uib.no
Kurt-Rune Bergset (Comparative Politics, UiB) Kurt-Rune.Bergset@isp.uib.no
Roald Kalheim (Comparative Politics, UiB)  Roald.Kalheim@student.uib.no
Maja Janmyr (Faculty of Law, University of Bergen)Maja.Janmyr@jur.uib.no
Linda Grøning (Faculty of Law, University of Bergen)Linda.Groning@jur.uib.no
Jørn Jacobsen (Faculty of Law, University of Bergen)Jorn.Jacobsen@jur.uib.no

en) Jorn.Jacobsen@jur.uib.no