The right to water, urban governance & health

With Dan Brinks, Jackie Dugard, Evelyn Villarreal Fernandez, Mathilde Thorsen, Bruce Wilson.

Innovative teaching on law & social change

Children’s Right to Child Friendly Justice

Participants/introductions by: Tarja Pösö (Tampere University), Kenneth Burns (University College Cork), Katre Luhamaa (UiB), Staffan Höjer (University of Gothenburg), Conor O’Mahony (University College Cork), Julia Sloth-Nielsen (Leiden University) and The Pro’s (Change Factory). Moderators: Jenny Krutzinna and Marit Skivenes (UiB)

Changing the system from within

Participants/introductions by: The Change Factory and the Pro’s; Tarja Pösö (Tampere University), Svanhild Alver (Bergenhus Barneverntjeneste). Moderator: Marit Skivenes (UiB).

Chr. Michelsen Prize Lunch with Maja Janmyr

Lecture by Maja Janmyr (University of Oslo).

Children’s Right to Health: Childhood obesity

Panel: Katharina Eva Ó Cathaoir (University of Copenhagen), Sveinung Nygård (UiB), Ole Frithjof Norheim (UiB). Moderator: Jenny Krutzinna (UiB Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism).

Law and technology

Technology is changing the law and the legal profession innumerable ways.

Authoritarian Constitutionalism

Judging democratic backlash

Many countries are currently experiencing a narrowing of democratic space.

Women on the Bench

What is it like to be a female judge? What are the incentives and obstacles that women face on the road to judgeship in different societies? And does it make a difference – to the operation of the court, its legitimacy or its judgments – whether there are women judges on a court – and how many they are?

Religion and Environmental conflict in Latin America

Evan Berry (American University, Washington D.C.) in conversation with Hans Geir Aasmundsen (UiB).

Corruption and Health

With Taryn Vian (Boston University), Monica Kirya (CMI), and Tina Søreide (NHH and LawTransform). Moderator: Sara Ekblom (LawTransform).

Researching Intersectionality

With (tbc*): Jayna Kothari (CLPR, India) Ciara O’Connell (Univeristy of Pretoria), Richard Sambaiga (UiB), Ingvild Skage (UiB/LawTransform), Maya Unnithan (University of Essex) Chair: Ruth Rubio Marin (Univeristy of Sevilla).

Criminalization of queer sexuality: political drivers and health

With (tbc*), Lise Rakner (UiB), Leo Arriola (UC Berkely), Getnet Tadele (University of Addis Abeba), Adrian Jjuko (Univeristy of Pretoria/Hrapf), Alan Msosa (Universty of York), Ayo Sogunro (Univeristy of Pretoria), Rudo Chigudu (Univeristy of Pretoria). Chair: Malcolm Langford (UiO).

Beyond Virtue & Vice: Rethinking sex, health and criminal law

In this seminar – which is part of the Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation – we will discuss the criminal regulation of sex, gender and reproduction across countries, and how human rights actors can think differently about recourse to criminal law as a remedy for violations. Among the issues to be discussed is gestational surrogacy.

Law, politics and adolescent sexual and reproductive health

While connections between politics, law and health are widely accepted they are harder to pin down scientifically. How can we establish evidence of impact?