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Program
*Venue is Bergen Resource Centre for International Development (Jekteviksbakken 31), unless otherwise noted
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Special focus I: Gender, Sexuality & the Law (17, 21-22 August)
Thursday 17 August
15:00-17:00: Abortion lawfare & the right wing in Brazil
Monday 21 August
09:00-09:30: Formal opening of the 2017 Bergen Exchanges
09:30-11:30: Key Note Address by Rashida Manjoo: When gender harms – what can law do about it?
11:40-12:30: Child marriage laws in Africa
12:40-13:30: Transcontinental perspectives on trans-struggles
18:00-19:30: Law & Society in Latin America: taking stock & looking ahead (EADI panel)
Tuesday 22 August
09:00-10:00: Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America – methods and findings
10:10-11:10: Abortion Rights Lawfare: comparative perspectives
11:20-12:20: The international drivers of anti- sexual & reproductive rights lawfare
12:30-13:30: The political economy of sexuality and abortion (EADI panel)
14:30-15:30: Politicization of gender & sexuality in African media
Wednesday 23 August: Law, Democracy & Authoritarianism
09:00-10:00: Understanding backlash against democracy in Africa (EADI panel)
10:00-11:10: How to strangle civil society – and to resist?
11:20-12:20: Contemporary human rights challenges in the USA
12:30-13:30: Researching drivers of violence
Special focus II: Effects of Transitional Justice (23-24 August)
18:00-19:30: Annual Lecture on Law and Social Transformation by Kathryn Sikkink: Evidence of Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century Venue: Bergen University Aula
Followed by panel debate: What now? Strategies for human rights activism & defense in populist times
Thursday 24 August
09:00-10:20: Transitional Justice in Latin America – book launch
10:30-11:30: ‘Beyond Words’ project on truth commission recommendations
11:40-12:30: Migration management and how migrants manage
12:40-13:30: Researching law in authoritarian settings
14:30-15:30: Constitutional courts & democracy: Latin America & beyond
18.00-20:00 What decides how judges rule? Venue: Auditorium 4. Faculty of Law, UiB
Friday 25 August: Law & Inequality
09:00-09:40: Law & Equality – towards a new research agenda
09:50-10:50: Land, law & inequality
11:00-12:00: Can water rights bring water to the poor?
12:30-13:20: Implementing Child Rights in Norway
18:00-21:00: Professional discretion and the child’s best interest in child protection (project launch & reception) Venue: Bergen Literature House, Østre Skostredet
Women’s Rights and the Women’s Movement in Sudan (1952-2014): Focus and Strategies for Adopting Legal Feminist Action
Samia al-Nagar and Liv Tønnessen (2017)
Balghis Badri and Aili Marie Tripp: Women's activism in Africa. Zed books
Liv Tønnessen, who is a Steering Committee Member at the Centre on Law and Social Transformation, is one of the contributors to this volume. Throughout Africa, growing numbers of women are coming together and making their voices heard, mobilizing around causes ranging from democracy and land rights to campaigns against domestic violence. In countries such […]
Enemies of the State: Curbing Women Activists Advocating Rape Reform in Sudan
Liv Tønnessen (2017)
Journal of International Women's studies vol. 18 no. 2
Sudanese women activists launched a legal campaign in 2009 calling attention to how the country’s Sharia based Criminal Act of 1991 produced impunity for sexual assault in the Darfur conflict. After years of mobilization, Sudan enacted a rape reform in 2015. While on the surface a success story, extensive interviews conducted in Khartoum suggest that […]
Social Rights Judgments and the Politics of Compliance. Making it stick.
Langford, M., Rodríguez-Garavito, C. & Rossi, J. (2017)
Cambridge University Press
Malcolm Langford, Co-Director of Centre on Law and Social Transformation, has, together with César Rodríguez-Garavito and Julieta Rossi, edited the book “Social Rights Jugdments and the Politics of Compliance. Making it stick” (Cambridge University Press). Among the contributors are Global Fellows of LawTransform Bruce Wilson and Daniel M. Brinks. “The past few decades have witnessed an […]
Child Protection and Human Rights – Making professional judgements
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is a legal document with global reach and thus has a cosmopolitan imprint. The CRC is the most far-reaching document that explicitly states the rights of children. The convention serves young human beings, the child, and constitute a critical standard that can and should be […]
Catalina Vallejo Piedrahíta
Global Fellow
Postdoctoral fellow at UiB
Does democracy reduce corruption?
Ivar Kolstad & Arne Wiig (2016)
Democratization Vol. 23 , Iss. 7, 2016
While democracy is commonly believed to reduce corruption, there are obvious endogeneity problems in measuring the impact of democracy on corruption. This article attempts to address the endogeneity of democracy by exploiting the thesis that democracies seldom go to war against each other. We instrument for democracy using a dummy variable reflecting whether a country […]
Runa Falck Langaas
Alumni
Land Rights, Land Acquisition, and Inclusive Development in India
India faces serious challenges in creating development processes that generate economic growth while being socially inclusive, ecologically sustainable, politically feasible, and in accordance with the Rule of Law. This conference presents findings from the LawTransform project on “Land Rights and Inclusive Sustainable Development in India”, which analyses the political economy of land rights in areas where the adivasis (indigenous population) has a special constitutional protection.