Videos from the Master’s Week
LawTransform is lucky to have many bright and engaged students around! During this year’s Master’ s Week (8-12 March), former students presented their work in the form of exiting public seminars. Here are the videos: The Right to Water in National Constitutions by Mathea Loen (UiB/LawTransform) Venezuela migration crisis: can Peruvian health system sustain it? […]
LawTransform Master’s Week 2021
LawTransform is lucky to have many bright and engaged students around! LawTransform students put a lot of effort into writing great master’s theses while also organizing seminars that make the centre an inspiring place to be. We therefore have all the reason to celebrate it with an entire week of seminars/webinars. Welcome to LawTransform Master’s […]
Students play an important role when it comes to finding solutions to the greatest challenges of our time, yet they have taken an unproportional part of the burden during the pandemic. And now, in collaboration with the UiB Collaboratory, the Bergen School of Global Studies and Bergen Global, LawTransform launches a seminar-series on how COVID-19 has affected and […]
Interview on the new UiB-LawTransform project Dimensions
Linda Gröning (Faculty of law, UiB) in conversation with Siri Gloppen (UiB, CMI/LawTransform) about the DIMENSIONS project: Remodeling criminal insanity and psychosis through the philosophical, legal and medical dimensions of the medical model. Watch the space for new post-doc positions! Project is funded by the Research Council of Norway.
Interview on the LawTransform project Effects of rights and law
In the following video Anja R. Tucker (Bergen Global, LawTransform) interviews Lara B. Côrtes (coordinator at LawTransform) on the project LawTransform: Effects of Rights & Law (2018-2022); in particularly about the opportunities presented by the project, the main goals of the project and its main achievements since its start in 2018, challenges faced especially in […]
LawTransform Affiliate Torunn Wimpelmann (CMI) in conversation with Siri Gloppen (UiB, LawTransform) about the new project “Gender, Islam and legal orderings in post-US Afganistan” (CMI). Project leader: Astri Suhrke (CMI). This project will examine the relationship between gender and Islam in Afghanistan as it affects women’s rights and protections at a time when the country’s […]
New project on Truth commissions and sexual violence
We congratulate a team of researchers lead by Elin Skaar (CMI), Research leader for the Courts, Judicial Behaviour & Transitional Justice Unit at LawTransform, who has been awarded a grant from the Norwegian Research Council to investigate “TRUTH COMMISSIONS AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE: African and Latin American Experiences”. The grant has a duration of 3 years […]
Professor Linda Gröning (Faculty of Law, UiB), LawTransform Affiliate received funding from the Research Council of Norway for the DIMENSIONS project: Remodelling criminal insanity and psychosis through the philosophical, legal and medical dimensions of the medical model.The research grant is 12 mln NOK worth and has a duration of five years. Through a novel multidimensional […]
NEW PROJECT: Marit Skivenes, LawTransform’s Child Rights’s unit research leader, has received funding to conduct a groundbreaking study of children’s participation. – Lack of participation and involvement of children is a big challenge in the Norwegian child protection system, says Marit Skivenes. The Research Council of Norway recently revealed the grant announcement for 2020. In […]
Massive protests erupted in Peru after an illegitimate government took power on 9 November. In country with more that 34 000 deaths from Covid-19, people went out in the streets. Despite the civil society and UN calls to control the violence enforced by the police against the protestors, de facto authorities congratulate the police violent […]