Recent publications
Revisit: BIFF X LawTransform
October 23, 2026
Last week, LawTransform hosted several different panels in collaboration with BIFF. Scholars, activists, actors, and filmmakers joined us to discuss important contemporary issues. We would …
How to Ban AI Glasses? A Pedagogical Approach
October 16, 2026
A Minister Needs Help This summer, AI glasses suddenly became a hot topic in the Norwegian public sphere. What had for years existed as a kind …
“All women’s wombs are caught up in these politics”: Interview with Maya Unnithan
October 16, 2026
Maya Unnithan is a social and medical anthropologist at the Department of Anthropology at Sussex and Director of the Centre for Cultures of Reproduction Technologies …
Art as Protest, Art as Refuge; What February 28th Left Behind
September 17, 2026
Mona Tahani is a visual artist based in Bergen who works in textile, printmaking, painting and wood carving, and also works separately as a cultural …
The Importance of Language and Oppressed Identities
September 17, 2026
Shwan Dler Qaradaki was born in 1977 in Suleimania, in Iraqi Kurdistan – the Iraqi part of the larger historical and cultural region of Kurdistan …
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LawTransform x BIFF 2026
September 29, 2026
This autumn, LawTransform is collaborating with the Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF) to bring film and research into conversation. Through a series of screenings, seminars …
Art as Protest, Art as Memory: Three Reflections from Bergen Exchanges 2026
September 18, 2026
During the 2026 Bergen Exchanges, researchers, scholars and students gathered at Kunsthall 3,14 for a panel on art as a form of resistance, opened by …
Book Review of “Child Protection and the European Court of Human Rights”
May 15, 2026
"At a time when European welfare states deal with competing demands of state sovereignty, family autonomy and universal children's rights, the book offers an incisive …
Applications open for #BeEx2026 PhD course “Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change”
January 7, 2026
Join the LawTransform/UiB Department of Goverment PhD course “Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change” which is an integrated part of the …
The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. 80 years on
November 20, 2025
Blogpost by Dorothee Alberts When on 20 November 1945 the opening session of the International Military Tribunal (IMT)[1] was being held in Nuremberg by the four …