Navanethem “Navi” Pillay – former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, judge of the International Criminal Court and President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda – held an exclusive meeting with students at the University of Bergen on Tuesday 22 November 2016. She visited Bergen in relation to the Rafto Conference 2016, and suggested to […]
The new unit on Gender, Sexuality & the Law at the Centre on Law and Social Transformation was launched on Monday 21 November in Bergen, with an event on International diplomacy and African LGBTI Rights. Why has Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans*, and Intersex (LGBTI) rights become central to the West’s human rights agenda in Africa? Does international […]
FGV Direito SP (Escola de Diretio de Sao Paulo) and Center for Law and Social Transformation invited to the workshop “Abortion Lawfare in Latin America: assessing mobilization and future challenges” in Sao Paulo, 29 September. Activists and researchers joined the event to discuss issues related to the mobilization on abortion and the dispute in institutional arenas. Videos […]
Removing a child from hers or his parents is one of the most sensitive decisions a nation-state can make. The forthcoming book “Child Welfare Removals By the State. A Cross-Country Analysis of Decisions-Making Systems“, that will be published on Oxford University Press this November, addresses a most important and under-researched legal proceeding: when the State […]
Maja Janmyr, postdoctoral fellow at the faculty of law at the University of Bergen and a Steering Comittee Member at the Centre on Law and Social Transformation, writes on the UN Summit on Refugees and Migrants – which she argues “is over before it even begun”. “In practice, there is nothing left of the UN Secretary General’s […]
Indian LGBT/queer activists seem to have been successful in fighting their battles and seeking justice through courts. In the recently published article “No Going Back. A Case Study of Sexual and Gender Minorities in India and their Legal Mobilisation” (Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal), as well as in a news article in the magazine Gaylaxy, Vikram Kolmannskog explores […]
The situation in Syria is worsening: there is increased fighting and violence on the round and no clear road map to peace. More than five million Syrians have fled their country. How do these exiles mobilize for political change in their home country? What are the responses of host states as well as the […]
In this lecture, Charles Epp uses his extensive research on police stops and race to illuminate the ongoing controversies over policing in the United States and how to reform policing. Friday August 26 at Bergen Centre for International Development at 12:15 PM. See event on Facebook. See full program for Bergen Exchanges 2016.
What factors influence how litigation campaigns are planned and carried out? How do their organizers decide what legal claims to make, when and where? Using experiences from climate change litigation in the US, Charles Epp will sketch the outlines of a theory to better understand the course of litigation campaigns. Wednesday 24. august 6PM at […]
Everything is ready for last year’s success to repeat itself: Once again, students from all over the world are coming for the Centre on Law and Social Transformation’s PhD course. Last chance: APPLY HERE! Read the detailed course description here. The PhD course “Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change” will take […]
Navi Pillay at the Centre on Law and Social Transformation
