Would you like to volunteer during the 2018 Bergen Exchanges? What is Bergen Exchanges? Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation is a week-long event hosted annually by the Centre on Law & Social Transformation. Through seminars, lectures and meetings, we invite academics, students and practitioners from all over the world to discuss different aspects […]
The Centre on Law & Social Transformation (LawTransform) is looking for 1-2 media interns to join our dedicated team of students and researchers. We are searching for persons who have skills in PR/communication, journalism, online publishing and video editing, but formal education within media is no precondition. The intern(s) will also serve as web coordinator(s) […]
Wednesday 15 August – Friday 24 August 2018 Venue: CMI, Just Faaland seminar room, 3rd floor Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen, Norway Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change ******* With the option of taking this as a General Course or with a specialization in Effects of Lawfare concerning: Health Rights – or – Rights […]
Lawtransform’s Maja Janmyr receives Chr. Michelsen Prize on outstanding development research.
Congratulations to Head of the Lawtransform Migration Unit and Professor in international migration law at the Norwegian Center for Human Rights, Maja Janmyr, who received the prize for her article ‘No country of asylum’: ‘Legitimizing’ Lebanon’s rejection of the 1951 Refugee Convention. Read the prize committee’s full decision here and the article here. Janmyr and colleague Lama Mourad […]
Thank you all for an exciting LawTransform Masters Week 2018!
We at the Centre on Law & Social Transformation are extremely proud of our first LawTransform Masters Week! In February, we had an entire week of seminars with the enthusiastic participation of our guests Hanne Sophie Greve, Camila Gianella, Elling N. Tjønneland, Lise Rakner, Elisabeth Ivarsflaten, Siri Gloppen, Marit Skivenes, Lara Côrtes and Kjersti Gravelsæter Berg in […]
Camila Gianella, Flavio Wiik and Lara Côrtes are pleased to invite you to submit a paper proposal to the open panel entitled Water rights and indigenous identities in Latin America that they are organising for the 18th IUAES World Congress in Brazil in July 2018. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 25 March 2018. In order to submit an abstract […]
In a context of political dealignment and a fluid multiparty system, corruption scandals and a divisive international court ruling on sexual and reproductive rights have drastically altered the electoral landscape, write Evelyn Villarreal Fernández (State of the Nation Programme) and Bruce M. Wilson (University of Central Florida). Published on LSE Blogs, 1 February 2018. This Sunday, 4 February 2018, will mark the 17th time since […]
Opinion: Lack of access to surgeries for people affected by TB in Peru (in Spanish)
Las cirugías del tórax para personas con tuberculosis no pueden esperar Se estima que en el Perú, unas 35,000 personas se infectan anualmente de tuberculosis (TB), y unas 2,000 mueren debido a este mal. Pese a que desde hace más de 20 años se cuenta con un programa que debe diagnosticar y brindar tratamiento gratuito […]
Sami National Day with LawTransform
Celebration of the Sami National Day with LawTransform on the news: https://www.nrk.no/hordaland/vestlandsrevyen-20.55-1.13902727 Thank you all for making LawTransform’s first Annual Lecture on Rights of Indigenous Peoples such an inspiring event! We are especially grateful for our collaboration with the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen, Sami Association in Bergen, United Nations Association of […]
Breaking Bad at Sampol
A new research project headed by Prof. Lise Rakner, will research whether dictators are abusing formal institutions in a Backlash Against Democracy (BAD) in Africa, or whether formal institutions increasingly restrain the discretionary power of more-or-less democratic politicians. Prof. Lise Rakner, has been passionate about setting up the new research project, which both correlates to […]