“Effects of Lawfare – Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change” in an integral part of LawTransfom’s annual The course offers insights into cutting edge research on the potential and limits of law as an instrument of social change and provides a unique opportunity to engage with some of the foremost scholars in the […]

The  2025 Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation will take place 18-12 August 2025. We will discuss: autocratization and democratic resistance – including the role of gender, rights, and of academia; contestation over land, indigenous rights, and climate transformation;  decolonization in  academia; children’s rights and dilemmas arising from the need to protect society against […]

On 6 May, we’ll have a panel conversation about Trump, anti-gender politics, and academic freedom with Haley McEwen (University of Gothenburg), Jon Braddy (Florida Gulf Coast University) and Kari Jegerstedt (UiB). Randi Gressgård will moderate the discussion. Under the current Trump administration, federal agencies have been instructed to remove terms like ‘gender’, ‘sexuality’, and ‘diversity’ […]

Lise Rakner takes over as Co-Director of LawTransform, from 1. November 2024 until 1 August 2025 and will share the directorship with Liv Tønnessen of CMI.  Siri Gloppen is stepping down temporarily to serve as the Dean of the UiB Social Science faculty. Lise, who is very well know to the LawTransform community, is a […]

Something you might not have noticed during the chaotic times of Bergen Exchanges, some of our most prominent alumni working on the joint CMI/LawTransform Rights act project were interviewed.

In spring 2025, SKOK (center for women’s and gender research), LawTransform and Skeivforsk will organize a cross-disciplinary, combined master and PhD course about thedynamics between sex and politics in a global perspective.  Registration deadline – Monday 13 of January 2025.  The regular lectures are public and open to all students, staff and the general public.  […]

LawTransform – the CMI-UiB Centre on Law & Social Transformation – has turned 10 years! We celebrated throughout the week of the Bergen Exchanges with a series of roundtables discussing what socio-legal research should focus on in the coming years, setting the research agendas for the next decade.

We invite you to revisit this year’s engaging annual lecture, where renowned scholar Kim Lane Scheppele, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University, delves into the critical issue of preserving democracy in the modern age. Professor Scheppele highlights the primary role that transnational courts play in transforming individual rights […]