Recent publications
Reflection: Amazomania panel and screening
November 2, 2026
Amazomania: Who Gets to Decide What the Images Mean? In Amazomania, Swedish director Nathan Grossman revisits footage from a 1996 expedition into the Javari Valley, Brazil …
BEYOND REPORTING: Sexual Violence in Schools and the Challenges of Protecting Awajún Youth in Condorcanqui, Peru
November 2, 2026
Despite legal reforms to address sexual violence in Peru’s schools, Awajún girls in Condorcanqui continue to face significant barriers to protection and justice. Beyond Reporting examines how …
Revisit: BIFF X LawTransform
November 2, 2026
Last week, LawTransform hosted several different panels in collaboration with BIFF. Scholars, activists, actors, and filmmakers joined us to discuss important contemporary issues. We would …
How to Ban AI Glasses? A Pedagogical Approach
November 2, 2026
A Minister Needs Help This summer, AI glasses suddenly became a hot topic in the Norwegian public sphere. What had for years existed as a kind …
“All women’s wombs are caught up in these politics”: Interview with Maya Unnithan
October 16, 2026
Maya Unnithan is a social and medical anthropologist at the Department of Anthropology at Sussex and Director of the Centre for Cultures of Reproduction Technologies …
Recent news
Beyond the Risk Narrative: What Bangladesh and Brazil Teach Us About Adolescent Pregnancy
November 2, 2026
by Larissa Cristina Margarido and Nelufer Nazrul Every year, roughly 16 million girls aged 15 to 19 become pregnant. Strip away the statistics and what’s left …
LawTransform x BIFF 2026
September 29, 2026
This autumn, LawTransform is collaborating with the Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF) to bring film and research into conversation. Through a series of screenings, seminars …
Art as Protest, Art as Memory: Three Reflections from Bergen Exchanges 2026
September 18, 2026
During the 2026 Bergen Exchanges, researchers, scholars and students gathered at Kunsthall 3,14 for a panel on art as a form of resistance, opened by …
Book Review of “Child Protection and the European Court of Human Rights”
May 15, 2026
"At a time when European welfare states deal with competing demands of state sovereignty, family autonomy and universal children's rights, the book offers an incisive …
Applications open for #BeEx2026 PhD course “Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change”
January 7, 2026
Join the LawTransform/UiB Department of Goverment PhD course “Effects of Lawfare: Courts and law as battlegrounds for social change” which is an integrated part of the …