Breakfast seminar on Corporate Crime, with Jennifer Arlen
Breakfast seminar on Corporate Crime with Jennifer Arlen
The politics of researching sexual and gender minorities
LawTransform and the research group on Right, Democracy and Welfare welcome you to a joint seminar on the politics of researching sexual and gender minorities with Pierre Brouard, Deputy Director, The Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender, at the University of Pretoria. Adopting a critical sexualities lens, Brouard will discuss his latest research, on the […]
The Decision-Making Ecology: Implications for Workforce Interventions in Child Welfare
Centre of Law & Social Transformation is pleased to invite you to participate to the seminar under Child Rights Unit with John Fluke. Date: 15.05.2017 Adress: Christiesgate 17, seminarrom 3 etg. Time: 15.15 – 17.00 John Fluke is associate Director at the Kempe Center for the Prevention of Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect in the Department of […]
#FreeStellaNyanzi: Protests, power and sanitary pads in Uganda
Tuesday, 2nd of May, 08:30-10:00 In early April, popular Ugandan academic Dr. Stella Nyanzi was arrested and charged by the Ugandan state. Stella is also a colleague and Research Affiliate of the Centre on Law & Social Transformation. Her formal charge of was of ‘computer misuse’ and ‘cyber harassment’ because she among other things has […]
Trump’s Impact in the World – Integrity, Crime and Corruption
Time: 08:30-09:30 How can Donald J. Trump’s presidency potentially impact on global economics in terms of integrity, crime and corruption? Dr. Nikos Passas is Professor of criminology and criminal justice at and Co-Director of the Institute for Security and Public Policy at the Northeastern University. He specializes in the study of corruption, illicit financial/trade flows, […]
Land Rights, Land Acquisition, and Inclusive Development in India
India faces serious challenges in creating development processes that generate economic growth while being socially inclusive, ecologically sustainable, politically feasible, and in accordance with the Rule of Law. This conference presents findings from the LawTransform project on “Land Rights and Inclusive Sustainable Development in India”, which analyses the political economy of land rights in areas where the adivasis (indigenous population) has a special constitutional protection.
Is the ICC a tool of western imperialism in Africa?
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 […]
Can the ICC end Israel’s illegal occupation in Palestine?
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 […]