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Monday 19 August Corruption & Law
- 09:00-09:45: Formal opening of #BeEx2019
- 09:45-10:45: Rights to the City – Bergen as a Human Rights City
- 11:00-12:15: KEYNOTE: Louise Shelley Natural Resource Corruption – How to research and address it?
- 12:30-13:30: Corruption and Law Enforcement
- 14:30-15:30: Political corruption and corruption as a political strategy
Tuesday 20 August Indigenous Rights
- 09:00-10:30: KEYNOTE: Rachel Sieder Indigenous rights as political tools – struggles over land and identity
- 10:45-12:00: Indigenous governance, intersectionality and gender equality
- 12:15-13:30: Truth commissions on violations against indigenous peoples – The Sami truth commission in a comparative perspective
- 14:30-17:00: FILM SCREENING: 500 years: Life in resistance
- 19:00-20:30: EXHIBITION AND INTERVIEW: Indigenous Struggles in Art & Law
Wednesday 21 August Research Methods & Ethics
- 09:00-10:00: KEYNOTE: Malcolm Langford Research methods in socio-legal studies
- LawTransform project presentations: Methodologies and findings
- 13:30-15:00: Lunch with a Judge: Ruth Rubio-Marin in conversation with Lydia Mugambe
- 15:00-17:00: Methods workshops
- *CANCELLED* 18:00-19:30: ANNUAL LECTURE ON LAW & SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: Irma Alicia Velasquez Nimatuj Justice beyond the final verdict: The Sepur Zarco case and the aftermath of court-ordered reparations in transitional justice cases in Guatemala
Thursday 22 August Natural Resources & Climate Change Lawfare
- 09:00-11:00: KEYNOTE: Leo Heller (UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Water) The human right to water as a governance mechanism and political tool, followed by roundtable on Elevating water rights to human rights: Has it strengthened marginalized peoples’ claim for water?
- 11:15-12:15: Water rights and indigenous struggles
- 12:30-13:30: Climate change governance: global regimes, national interests, local norms
- 18:00: FILM SCREENING: River Nomads
Friday 23 August Law & Technology
- 09:00-11:30: KEYNOTE: Kristin Sandvik Legal technology: a field guide to ethical problematization and reflection followed by a roundtable on Law, Technology and Social Change with Malcolm Langford, Heather Broomfield and Kristin Sandvik
- 12:00-13:00: War on facts and responsible evidence appraisal in research for policy
- 13:15-14:15: Innovative teaching on law and social change: student perspectives (part of the INTPART project)