Is the ICC targeting Africa inappropriately or are there sound reasons and justifications for why most of the situations under investigation, and all prosecutions, happens to be in Africa? Can the anti-ICC rhetoric in Africa be explained by other political mechanisms on the continent, such as the creation of an African Criminal Court granting immunity […]
Does the ICC have the power to bring war crimes charges against Israeli nationals for Israel’s settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem? Could the controversial UN Security Council resolution, stating that Israeli settlements constitute a violation of international law, provide the ICC cause to order a full investigation of Israeli settlement construction? In […]
Four new research grants
No less than four new LawTransform-affiliated research grants were awarded in December 2016! Professor Marit Skivenes who heads the LawTransform Child Rights Unit was awarded the prestigious Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC), for her project “Discretion and the child’s best interests in child protection”. ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators. To receive this […]
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. […]
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 […]
How do indigenous communities view climate change and sustainability in relation to their own knowledge?
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 […]
Sara Ekblom
Alumni
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 […]
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 […]