LawTransform course for students
For students in Bergen, there are two LawTransform-related courses offered this semester: “Constitution and Politics” is a MA/BA level course offered as a collaboration between the Faculty of Law and the Department of Comparative politics. Course leaders are Eirik Holmoyvik and Siri Gloppen. “Lawfare: Law as political strategy” is an MA level course offered by the […]
Summer school course on gender based violence
Bergen Summer Research School (11 – 22 June 2018) will offer a course on “Gender based violence: Rights as governance mechanisms and political tools”. The application deadline is 15 February and there are some stipends available. Course leaders are Henriette Aasen (UiB) and Torunn Wimpelmann (CMI) and lecturers include Jackie Dugard; Siri Gloppen; Hans Fredrik Martinussen; […]
Grant from Stiftelsen Fritt Ord for LawTransform MA student
Congratulations to Mathilde Thorsen, our intern on the Water-rights project and a master student at the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen, who has been awarded a grant from Stiftelsen Fritt Ord for her MA thesis: ‘Water & Power’ – How civil society make use of the international human rights system regarding the right […]
Among others scholars, the Centre on Law and Social Transformation’s research leader for the Health & Law Unit, Camila Gianella, is sharing her research with readers of the Reprohealthlaw Blog on the topic: Brazil – Conservative mobilization and adolescent pregnancy in Latin America. To read more, please check out the blog post here.
Gender, intimacy and mobility in the context of hardening borders and new populist nationalisms. This workshop addresses the linked concepts of rights,control and regulation of reproduction, and the growing financialisation of care. We are on one hand witnessing the growth of populist and exclusionist movements which push European governments to harden and militarise borders. Simultaneously, Western […]
Roundtable Conference On Corruption
On 20 November Tina Søreide and Kasper Vagle –both members of the Corruption & Criminal Law Research Group – organized a roundtable conference for corruption experts at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Department of Accounting, Auditing and Law. The conference brought together academics, lawyers, prosecutors, other public officials, and civil society for the sake […]
Svein-Erik Helle (CMI/UiB/LawTransform) has written a comment on the situation in Zimbabwe, published on CMI website 16.11.17. After 37 years in power, it seems that history has finally caught up with Robert Mugabe. On Wednesday the 15th of November, armored vehicles from the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) descended on Harare, occupying key government buildings and […]
New research project lead by Elin Skår
We congratulate a team of LawTransform researchers lead by Elin Skaar (Chr. Michelsen Institute), who has been awarded a grant from the Norwegian Research Council to investigate ”Women on the Bench: The Role of Female Judges in Fragile States”. The project is a partnership between the CMI and the Overseas Development Institute (Pilar Domingo) and […]
Interview with Andrea Castagnola about her new publication
Andrea Castagnola is an assistant professor at the School of Politics and Government at Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina. In her new book “Manipulating Courts in New Democracies: Forcing Judges off the Bench in Argentina”, the main questions are: When can the Executive manipulate the composition of a Court? What political factors explain judicial instability […]
Examining health system performance for indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon through the lens of tuberculosis control
Announcing here a part of a project examining health system performance for indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon through the lens of tuberculosis (TB) control (1 & 2), that Health & Law Unit’s Research Leader Camila Gianella currently is working . Below you find a short text and links to videos precenting the project. As in many other […]