Welcome to a week of deliberation on effects of law and legal mobilization in Bergen, Norway 17-21 August 2015! Please follow the link to see the detailed program: Bergen Exchanges on Law and Social Transformation  

Is promoting “religious freedom” as a legally enforceable “right” the best guarantee for the free exercise of religion and for the accommodation of difference within deeply plural societies? This conference explores religion in and beyond law. In today’s world religion tends to be practiced in spaces regulated by different layers of codified law. The rising […]

Why and how do discussions about religious freedom and secularism coalesce around questions of gender and sexuality? What is the relationship between the regulation of gender and sexuality and the regulation of religion in modern secular societies? The round table will address gendered and sexual aspects of law and religious  (un) freedom in the global […]

PANEL DISCUSSION: Norad’s international corruption hunters network meets in Bergen. Hear how some of them work to prosecute corrupt criminals, and about the importance of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. «Why should not we – who are hunting the criminals – have a network when the criminals have their networks». The words are from Eva Joly […]

In India debates on homosexuality and queer rights have been fueled by recent court cases: In 2009, the Naz Foundation judgment of the Delhi High Court effectively decriminalised homosexuality. Four years later, in December 2013, the Supreme Court surprisingly overturned the decision on appeal, holding that it was up to Parliament to decide whether to […]

India’s recent growth trajectory and the ongoing liberalization of the country’s economy have fuelled conflicts over land rights between state authorities, private investors and rural and urban populations who face threats of dispossession. This seminar will present critical perspectives on the politics of land and dispossession that draws on research in the states of Maharashtra […]

What explains why democracies have endured or broken down? What explains why dictatorships have survived or fallen? What explains waves of regime change? The recently published book by Scott Mainwaring and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán argue for a theoretical approach situated between long-term structural and cultural explanations and short-term explanations that look at the decisions of specific […]

Welcome to Bergen Resource Centre for International Development and the event: Argentinean Politics: House of Cards? On January 18, Argentinean prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead in his home. This happened the exact day before he was to testify in Congress after he had accused Argentinian President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of conspiring with Iran to subvert […]

Neil Datta in conversation with Vegard Furustøl Vibe How to understand the recent phenomenon in Europe of push-back on social advances in sexual and reproductive rights?  Who are the actors, what motivates them and how do they work? Are there links between the debates on conscientious objection (reservasjonsrett) that we have seen in Norway in […]