Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation 21 -25 August 2017 The Centre on Law & Social Transformation (LawTransform) annually hosts The Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation. The event attracts scholars, students and practitioners seeking to understand lawfare – how law is used as an instrument of change – and how it shapes […]
Welcome to the 2017 Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation. The Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation is a meeting place for scholars and practitioners who seek to understand how law serves as an instrument of change and how it shapes, and is shaped by power relations. During a week of public discussions, […]
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Remember to register for the PhD course “Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change (17- 25 August)” Read more about the course on our web page or on the course page. UiB candidate: Please register here If you are not a UiB candidate: Please register here
Utlysning: Vitenskapelig assistent/Call for Applications: Research Assistant
Ved Institutt for samanliknande politikk, Universitetet i Bergen, er det ledig ei 10 % stilling som vitskapleg assistent for ein periode på eit år med mogleg forlenging med inntil eit år. Stillinga er knytt til eit internasjonalt forskingsprosjekt, «Elevating water rights to human rights: Has it strengthened marginalized peoples’ claim for water?», ved Centre on […]
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What is Bergen Exchanges? Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation is a weeklong event hosted annually by the Centre on Law & Social Transformation. Through seminars, lectures and meetings, we invite academics, students and practioners from all over the world to discuss different aspects of the potential of law as an instrument for social […]
Call for papers: EADI/Bergen Exchanges panel
Gender and Transitional Justice: How are gendered crimes and injustices dealt with in transitional justice processes? Transitional justice mechanisms have become the norm rather than the exception in post-conflict or post-authoritarian settings. Whereas transitional justice processes were largely nationally driven in the 1980s and part of the 1990s, international involvement in finding solutions for how […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]