Date: 16th January 2019 Time: 12:00-13:00 Place: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 During 2018 over 2775 people drowned on the dangerous migration route across the Mediterranean and into Europe. A further 46 796 were rescued offshore by NGOs, while the Italian coastguard saved 35 875. The civil rescue work has been spearheaded by the NGO SOS […]
Date: 13.12.18 Time: 08:30-09:30. Place: Bergen Resource Centre, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen I år er det 40 år siden loven om selvbestemt abort ble vedtatt. Det nylig fremsatte forslaget fra Kristelig Folkeparti om å endre abortlovens § 2 bokstav c viser imidlertid at loven fremdeles skaper sterkt engasjement og dype politiske skillelinjer. Forslaget går ut på […]
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Date: 05.12.18 Time: 12:00-13:00. Place: Bergen Resource Centre, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen. The Centre on Law and Social Transformation i samarbeid med Rettspolitisk forening i Bergen, inviterer til en samtale om utviklingen av rettsvitenskapen som vitenskap med Jørn Jacobsen, professor i rettsvitenskap, UiB. Historisk har jurister forstått seg selv som tolkere av gjeldende rett, til bruk […]
Date: 28.11.18 Time: 08:30-09:30. Place: Bergen Resource Centre, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen. Sergii Leshchenko, Martin Paulsen (Diku) and Kasper Vagle (NHH) in conversation with Åse Gilje Østensen (The Norwegian Naval Academy) Five years after Ukraine´s Revolution of Dignity started with protests on Independence Square in Kyiv, it is time to ask whether the high hopes for reforms and […]
Date: 14.11.18 Time: 08:30-09:30. Place: Bergen Resource Centre, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen. Is humanitarian access and action geographically constrained? Which political perspectives are shaping this process? At what point does helping people in need become a criminal offence? What role do non-state actors play in a European humanitarian crisis? The Centre of Law and Social Transformation […]
Date: 29 October 2018 Time: 18:00-20:00 Place: Auditorium 1, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen. The Centre on Law and Social Transformation in collaboration with Bergen Resource Centre is happy to invite you to a screening of the documentary film ‘Breaking Free’ ‘Breaking Free’ by the Indian filmmaker Sridhar Rangayan (2015). The documentary provides an insight into the […]
Date: 05.11.18 Time: 12:30-13:30. Place: Bergen Resource Centre, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen. Book launch: Kerry Ryan Chance (UiB) in conversation with Ingvild Skage (UiB). Kerry Chance has just released her new book: Living Politics in South Africa’s Urban Shacklands (2017). This book provides a unique insight into post-apartheid social movements in South Africa. While much has […]
Breakfast seminar at which Sosina Bezu (CMI), Magnus Hatlebakk (CMI) and Alberto D. Cimadamore (CROP), in conversation with Aslaug Aarsæther (CROP), will discuss the achievements, shortfalls and challenges faced by the international community in its path towards the eradication of global poverty. In December 1995, the General Assembly proclaimed the First United Nations Decade for […]
Litigating on love. The Centre on Law and Social Transformation is happy to invite you to a breakfast seminar on the decriminalization of homosexuality in India. Last month, the Supreme Court of India decriminalized ‘unnatural sex’ between consenting adults by reading down section 377 of the Indian Penal code. Section 377 criminalized homosexual acts and […]
LawTransform invites all interested to a seminar that will discuss the democratic costs of corrupted social capital with experts in the field. Willeke Slingerland (Saxon University of Applied Sciences) and Lise Rakner (UiB/CMI/LawTransform) in conversation with Tina Søreide (NHH/LawTransform). In countries all over the world there are examples of large infrastructure projects being built bigger than necessary with huge […]