CORRUPTION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Bridging Economic and Legal Perspectives

Tina Søreide, Professor, Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Norway (2016)

ISBN: 978 1 78471 597 7

The author addresses the role of criminal justice in anti-corruption by investigating assumptions in the classic law and economics approach and debating the underlying criteria for an efficient criminal justice system. Drawing on real life challenges from the policy world, the book combines insights from the literature with updated knowledge about practical law enforcement constraints. […]

WAIT – Waiting for an uncertain future: the temporalities of irregular migration

The Project The WAIT-project focuses on the temporal aspects of migration and investigates how temporal structures related to irregular migration are shaped by legal regimes, cultural norms and power relationships, and how they shape subjective experiences and life projects. The WAIT-project aims to produce knowledge that meets societal challenges raised by new migration patterns adds […]

Funding for research on water rights

The Centre on Law & Social Transformation/CMI has received 10 million NOK from the Research Council of Norway for a research project on water rights. The project ‘Elevating water rights to human rights: Has it strengthened marginalized peoples’ claim for water?’ ask if the recognition of a human right to water has made states more accountable to […]

Maternal Mortality and Young Women’s Right to Life and Health in South Africa

Maternal mortality is a serious threat to women´s right to life and health in many developing countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. A high maternal mortality rate is recognized as an indication of shortcomings in the health system, gender inequalities, conflict and poverty, which affect women´s access to adequate sexual and reproductive health services in a […]

Social Movements and the State in India: Deepening Democracy?

Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Kenneth Bo Nielsen (eds.) (2016)

Steering Committee Member at the Centre on Law and Social Transformation, Alf Nilsen, has together with Kenneth Bo Nilsen edited a new book on social movements in India. The book “Social Movements and the State in India: Deepening Democracy?” is published on Palgrave Macmillian UK and raises questions of the extent to which social movements […]

Launch of new unit on Child Rights and book launch

Thursday 1 December marked an important occasion for the Centre on Law and Social Transformation as it launched, not only its new unit on Child Rights, but also the new and highly relevant book «Child Welfare Removals by the State – A Cross-Country Analysis of Decision-Making Systems» edited by Kenneth Burns, Tarja Pösö and Marit Skivenes. Only […]

Precarity in Exile: The Legal Status of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon

Maja Janmyr (2016)

Refugee Survey Quarterly (2016) 35 (4): 58-78.

Lebanon has had an ambiguous approach to the more than one million Syrians seeking protection in the country since 2011. The country is neither party to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, nor does it have any national legislation dealing with refugees. In October 2014, Lebanon’s Council of Ministers adopted the first […]