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 […]
Scholars and practitioners from all over the world. Lectures, roundtables and panels. Focus: the legal determinants of inequality; lawfare by and related to migrants & refugees, sexual & gender minorities, and children; the effects of policing, criminal law and incarceration; judicial independence; lawfare over natural resources; climate change. See full program here!
Centre on Law & Social Transformation (LawTransform) advances interdisciplinary research on the potential of law as an instrument of social change. March 16, 18:00 – 21:00 Film & reflection: “Democrats” – Constitution-making in Zimbabwe April 6, 12:00 – 13:30 Taking custody in the best interest of the child? April 7, 08:30 – 09:30 Breakfast forum: […]
Abortion Lawfare in Latin America: assessing mobilization and future challenges
