Date/time: 1st February 2024 – 12:15
Location: Seminar room 2 at the Faculty of Law (Dragefjellet) Magnus Lagabøtes Plass 1
The aim of the course is to make students gain understanding of the politics embedded in the law, and the role of law and legal institutions in politics.

Date/time: 1st of February 2024 at 14:15
Location: Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen Global
How does the criminalization of abortion impact women?

Date/Time: 14:15-15:30, 25th of January 2024
Location: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31
How has human rights law developed and interpreted the right to a personal identity?

Den internasjonale domstolen i Haag vurderer i disse dager om krigføringen i Gaza gir grunnlag for å tiltale Israel for folkemord – det mest alvorlige bruddet på folkeretten. Krigen mellom Hamas og Israel reiser mange vanskelige spørsmål. Hva sier jussen om krigføring og hvordan forholder soldater og offiserer seg til dette? Hvilke rettigheter og plikter har […]

Check this opportunity! Are you interested in how activists use law and court cases to advance (or oppose) goals such as indigenous rights, climate transformation, abortion, queer rights, social justice, and democracy – and whether their legal strategies work? Or are you curious about how autocratic governments use the law to stay in power – […]

Date/Time: 23th of November 2023 (Thursday) 14:00-15:00 Place: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 Melanie Hack (UiB) will talk about her new research project “Life and Work in Balance: Legal Responses to a Working Life in Transition and in Times of Crisis” (LaW-BALANCE). It will examine how the law can address the challenges and opportunities posed by […]

Date/Time: October 20th – 12:15
Place: Jekteviksbakken 31
Self-determination and border control

Roberto Gargarella will talk about the deep crisis affecting constitutional democracies around the world. This crisis manifests itself both in a growing lack of confidence in constitutionalism and in an increase in citizens’ dissatisfaction with democracy.