Date: Monday 18 March 2019 Time: 09:00 – 10:00 Place: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen Watch here: In almost all countries in the world today political leaders are formally selected through electoral contests where multiple candidates and parties are allowed to compete. However, an increasing number of these competitions take place under conditions which cannot […]
Date: Thursday 14 March 2019 Time: 14:15-15:45 Venue: Seminar room 17.112 (2nd floor) Christies Gate 17 The Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism are delighted to invite you to our RDV seminar on Thursday March 14 with Marius Emberland, lawyer with the Attorney General’s office. His presentation is titled “Human Rights and Child Welfare”, […]
National environmental disasters: cases from Norway and Brazil
Date: Wednesday 13th March 2019 Time: 15:00-16:00 Venue: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 The legal department of Concerned Students Norway and the Centre on Law and Social Transformation welcome everyone to a lecture with Professor Stella Emery Santana from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. Her lecture will focus on environmental disasters in Brazil, specifically on comparing the […]
Date: Thursday 14th March Time:16:00-18:00 Place: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 In recent years, Europe has seen strong conservative mobilization against abortion, LGBT-rights and child protection services. Through the Internet, intensive lobbying and funding from abroad, these movements are gaining new ground – is the seemingly well-established right of abortion under threat in Europe? What are the driving […]
Date: 6th March 2019 Time: 08:30-10:00 Venue: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 In this Master’s week breakfast seminar, Sara Ekblom and Mathilde Thorsen will present their research related to the right to water. Both Masters theses were written in connection with the LawTransform project Elevating water rights to human rights: Has it strengthened marginalized peoples’ claim […]
Date: Thursday 21st February 2019 Time: 08:30 – 09:30 Place: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen A decade ago, Turkey’s now-paramount leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, held promise as a potential beacon of democracy for a region rife with religious conflict. Erdogan sought to secure a place for his country in the European Union and presented himself […]
Date: Tuesday 26th February 2019 Time: 08:30 – 09:30 Place: Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31, Bergen How do political regimes die? Are there historical patterns in regime breakdowns? Does history really repeat itself? Coups are the most common form of irregular non-institutionalized leadership change. They are also the most common form of unconstitutional regime change. Military […]
Date: 3 April 2019 Time: 12:45-14:00 Venue: Aud Finn Kydland, NHH In cooperation with the Department of Accounting, Auditing and Law at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) we invite you to an Economic, Ethics and Law research group seminar with Samuell Buell (Duke Law School). The U.S. model of corporate criminal enforcement relies on the […]
Annual Lecture on Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Date: 6 February 2019 Time: 16:30-20:30 Venue: Handelshøyskole BI (Kong Christian Frederiks plass 5) 16:30 Welcome – canteen 1st floor 17:00 Opening speeches and dinner 18:30 Performance “Risten & Ante” by Mikkel Gaup 19:15 Lecture and panel debate – auditorium 3, 3rd floor Per Selle (Professor of Comparative Politics, UiB) Urfolks rett til selvstyre: Sametinget i […]
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 […]