CANCELLED: Boomtown. Runaway Globalisation on the Queensland Coast

Thomas Hylland Eriksen (UiO/CMI) presents his new book in conversation with Antonio De Lauri (CMI).

Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation

Welcome to the 2018 Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation!

Child’s best interest principle

Panel: Katre Luhamaa (UiB), Kirsten Sandberg (University of Oslo, member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child), Marit Skivenes (UiB), Asgeir Falch-Eriksen (Velferdsforskningsinstituttet NOVA, OsloMet – storbyuniversitetet), Kenneth Burns (University College Cork) and Thomas Meysen (the International Centre for Socio-Legal Studies). Moderators: Siri H. Pedersen and Hege S. Helland (UiB).

The European Court of Human Rights and Child’s Rights

A panel discussion moderated by Trond Helland (UiB), with Karl Harald Søvig (UiB), Katre Luhamaa (UiB), Geir Kjell Andersland (Hordaland Social County Board), Conor O´Mahony (Cork University Collage) and Marit Skivenes (UiB).

International rights and cultural practices?

Participants: Une Thoburn (University of East Anglia), Sagrario Segado (National University of Distance Education), Kenneth Burns (University College Cork), Thomas Meysen, Jayna Kothari (CLPR/Lawtransform), Satang Nabaneh (University of Pretoria/Lawtransform). Moderator: Audun Løvlie.

The critique of child’s protection and children’s rights

A moderated conversation with June Thoburn (East Anglia University), Tarja Pösö (Tampere University), Svanhild Alver (Bergen Municipality)(tbc), Geir Kjell Andersland (Hordaland Social County Board)(tbc), Kenneth Burns (Cork Univerisity College), Thomas Meysen (the International Centre for Socio-Legal Studies), Marit Skivenes (UiB). Moderator: Hege Helland (UiB).

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?