LawTransform PhD course 2019
LawTransform PhD course 2019 Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change (14- 23 August) Practical information The course combines lectures specifically designed for the course and participation in the lectures, panels, round-tables, and workshops of the Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation. Here are the programs for the PhD-course/Bergen Exchanges and […]
In the course of three months in 1994, between 800 000 and 1 million Rwandans were brutally slaughtered in systemised attacks. The reconciliation process that followed has been hailed all over the world. But for many Rwandans the hundred days of horror linger. More than a lesson in reconciliation and how to move on, the […]
This is a short summary of the article “Overcoming the limits of Legal Opportunity Strctures – LGBT rights’ Divergent Paths in Costa Rica and Colombia, written by Bruce M. Wilson and Camila Gianella-Malca (published in the journal “Latin American Politics and Society”). The article is part of the LawTransform project Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare: […]
About the centre
Centre on Law & Social Transformation – LawTransform – is a network of scholars, students and practitioners who share an interest in how law shapes societies, and the use of rights and courts as tools for social change. LawTransform was established in 2014 as a collaboration between the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and the University of Bergen (UiB). Fellows and affiliates come from […]
The metropolitan area of São Paulo is home to approximately 21 million people or about four times the population of Norway. Among the largest cities in the Americas, Sao Paulo alone is home to approximately 12 million people. In a city which, according to Forbes Magazine, has among the largest concentrations of billionaires in the […]
World Water Day 2019 – Leaving no one behind
There is a good reason why two UN resolutions explicitly recognized the right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as an independent human right in 2010, and there is also a good reason why the World Water Day has been celebrated every year since 22. March 1993. The violation of the right to […]
Jackie Dugard on steering committee of SCIS
LawTransform Global Fellow, Jackie Dugard, is on the steering committee of the newly established Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS). It is the first research institute of its kind in the global South and draws on the intellectual resources of Wits University, and partner institutions in South Africa and beyond. Although there are a number of […]
Malcolm Langford on Norway’s place in the Security Council
On 6 March, LawTransform co-director Malcolm Langford appeared in a television debate on NRK with the Norwegian Foreign Minister. They discussed whether Norway deserves a place in the UN Security Council. Malcolm’s participation was based on an opinion editorial he wrote as part of Nordic Branding project: Norge vingler stadig mer i utenrikspolitikken, så hvorfor skal […]
Welcome to Master’s week 2019!
The Centre on Law & Social Transformation is lucky to have many bright and engaged students around! Since the centre was established back in 2014, as a collaboration between Chr. Michelsen Institute and University of Bergen, we have had 13 master’s theses written here, and nine new students are currently developing their research at the […]
Alicia Yamin appointed Senior Fellow of the Global Health and Rights Project (GHRP)
Alicia Yamin, a Global Fellow of the Centre on Law and Social Transformation has been appointed Senior Fellow of the Global Health and Rights Project(GHRP) at Harvard University. The project will work to promote the theorization of the “right to health”, and study how this right is applicable under both international and domestic law. How can using […]