Lise Rakner takes over as Co-Director of LawTransform, from 1. November 2024 until 1 August 2025 and will share the directorship with Liv Tønnessen of CMI. Siri Gloppen is stepping down temporarily to serve as the Dean of the UiB Social Science faculty.
Lise, who is very well know to the LawTransform community, is a professor at the UiB Department of Government where she among other is responsible for the Master Program in Politics and Governance of Global Challenges (GlGov). Lise also leads and is engaged in a number of LawTransform projects, including «Autocratization Dynamics: Innovations in research embedded learning»; «RightAct: Rights activism under political uncertainty»; «Decolonizing Academia» and the new UTFORSK-project «A global classroom for global challenges»