Welcome to the 2017 Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation. The Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation is a meeting place for scholars and practitioners who seek to understand how law serves as an instrument of change and how it shapes, and is shaped by power relations. During a week of public discussions, […]
Bergen Literature House, Østre Skostredet Time: 18:00-21:00 At this final event of the 2017 Bergen Exchanges, professor in political science Marit Skivenes (University of Bergen, will present the ambitious goals for a new research agenda on child protection. A key question is how to secure the quality and legitimacy of the intrusive and extremely difficult […]
Time: 12:30 – 13:20 Results from book project edited by Malcolm Langford, Marit Skivenes and Karl Harald Søvig on implementation of the rights of the child in Norway. A special focus is on the rights of migrant children. On paper, the rights of migrant children seem well protected in Norway and elsewhere but in practice their […]
Time: 11:40-12:30 The phrase ‘migration management’ has come to replace ‘immigration control’ and puts a more positive spin on it. Borrowed from the corporate world, the term ‘management’ suggests control and efficiency, and glosses over the multiple conflicts that are often involved, within states, between states, and between states and migrants. Is it possible to […]
Can water rights bring water to the poor?
Time: 11:00-12:00 This session marks the launch of a new LawTransform research unit on “Natural Resources & Climate Lawfare”. Water is a vital, valuable and highly contested natural resource. In 2010 a UN resolution recognized the independent human right to water and sanitation. Has this new international Human Right strengthened marginalized peoples struggle to access […]
Time: 09:50-10:50 Land remains a main source of livelihood and wealth – and of social conflict and inequality. This is exacerbated as population pressures, development needs and climate change increase the competition for scarce resources, often threatening already marginalized groups depending on the land. Property rights to land and natural resources have been fiercely contested […]
Time: 15:00-17:00 This seminar focuses on the drivers and strategies behind the right wing turn in Brazilian Politics – culminating with the ousting of President Dilma Rousseff in 2016). Particular focus is on the role of “politics of morality” in their strategies and alliance-building, and in particular of antiabortion politics. Moderator: Lara Côrtes (LawTransform/CMI) Participants […]
Time: 09:00 – 09:40 Law is used to address unwanted inequalities in society – including along class, race and gender lines. When do legal strategies succeed in advancing equality? Moderator Runa Falck Langaas (LawTransform/Norwegian Citizen Panel, UiB). Introductions by Jackie Dugard (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) & tbc*. Comments by Sudhir Krishnaswamy (CLPR, Bangalore).
Venue: Auditorium 4, Faculty of Law, UiB Time: 18:00-20:00 This session looks at what we know about what influences judges’ decisions. Focus is on cases concerning politically sensitive questions such as freedom of expression, or gendered issues such as rape. We also discuss the process of ‘constructing a victim’. What is a ‘good victim’ in […]
Time: 14:30 – 15:30 Both in Latin America and Eastern Europe ambitious constitutional justice systems were established as part of the transitions from authoritarian rule in these regions in the 1980s and 1990s. Many of these constitutional courts assumed roles exceeding their historical functions – and those of constitutional courts in advanced industrial democracies. A new […]