Date: Monday 20. August Time: 11:15 – 12:15 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen The first decade of the millennium has witnessed a surge in structural cases decided by courts of the Global South regarding health rights and their social determinants. In widely discussed mega decisions adopted in India, Colombia and Argentina […]
Date: Thursday 23 August 2018 Time: 18:00-19:30 Place: Auditorium 4, University of Bergen faculty of Law, Bergen Keynote address: David and Goliath: Children’s participation in immigration proceedings What does it mean to adopt a children’s rights-based approach to immigration and asylum law. Notwithstanding the vast literature on children’s participation on the one hand, and on […]
From human rights to local justice & the quiet power of indicators Date: Wednesday 22 August Time: 15:30-17:30 Place: Bergen University Aula Keynote address and roundtable From human rights to local justice & the quiet power of indicators with Sally Engle Merry, NYU How are international human rights «vernacularized» and applied in local contexts? And […]
Date: Monday 20 August 2018 Time: 09:30-11.00 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen The right to health aims to secure for all the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, but what when resource scarcity makes it impossible to provide optimal health care for the entire population? Can the right […]
Date: Thursday 16 August Time: 15:30-17:00 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen In recent years, a catastrophic global bleaching event devastated many of the world’s precious coral reefs. Working on the front lines of ruin, today’s coral scientists are struggling to save these important coral reef ecosystems from the imminent threats […]
Time: 20. – 24. August 2018 Main venue: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31. For other venues, please see the program. Open to the public. The Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation is a week of public seminars, project workshops and social events – and a PhD course on Effects of Lawfare. We invite academics, students and practitioners from all […]
Michael Lipsky is well known in the field of public administration for his book on street-level bureaucracy (1980), in which he claims that state employees should be seen as part of the policy-making community and as exercisers of political power. In this lecture, Lipsky will draw on ideas and concerns he has with the way the field of public administration is developing, and share some of his newer thoughts and reflections on dimensions of street level bureaucracy.
The lecture is organized by the Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism.
Date: Monday 4th June 2018 Time: 13:30 – 14:30 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen In Burundi, a recent referendum approved extending President Nkurunziza’s and the ruling party CNDD-FDD’s – an insurgent group turned ruling party – hold on power until 2034. The President’s run for a third term in 2015 […]
Mino.Jur Bergen in collaboration with Bergen Resource Centre and Centre on Legal and Social Transformation have the pleasure to welcome you to an evening with the international litigator and activist Kimberley Motley! You might know Motley from the documentary «Motley’s Law», TED talks, attendance in Oslo Freedom Forum and from her appearance on the talk […]
Date:Thursday 24th May 2018 Time: 08:30 – 09:30 Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen Property rights are in danger in South Africa. The South African Parliament wants to fast track economic transformation and reverse the apartheid legacy by expropriation land without compensation. Can they do that? Is South Africa taking the […]
Litigating health rights – what happened with the mega-judgments?
