Welcome to the 2016 Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation
The Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation is an annual interdisciplinary meeting place for scholars who want to understand the interplay between law and social change.
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How do rights and law serve as political tools? How do legal institutions function as arenas for political contestation? These are some questions in understanding the interplay between law and social change. The Bergen Exchanges is a space for jointly developing better research strategies and methods to grasp and securely establish the effects of lawfare in its various forms.
This year’s Bergen Exchanges focuses on: the legal determinants of inequality; lawfare by and related to migrants & refugees, sexual & gender minorities, and children; the effects of policing, criminal law and incarceration; judicial independence; and lawfare over natural resources (land, water) and climate change.
The PhD course "Effects of Lawfare" is offered by the UiB and Centre on Law & Social Transformation in conjuction with the Exchanges.
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Program
Monday 22 August: Inequality & the Law
09:30-10:15: Key Note Address by Roberto Gargarella: “Can courts pursue social justice while respecting democracy? Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31
10:30-12:00: 2016 Chr. Michelsen Prize Lecture by Francesca Jensenius: “Can Electoral Quotas Advance Social Justice – and How Do We Know?” Place: Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Jekteviksbakken 31
11:00-12:00: Roundtable: Researching law & (in)equality
12:30-13:30: Who benefits from speech rights?
19:00-20:00: Can law heal? Legal determinants of inequalities in health
Tuesday 23 August: Sexual & Reproductive Rights Lawfare
09:00-10:45: Identity, politics & law in global battles over homosexuality
11:00-12:10: Criminalizing immorality: how to study political drivers?
12:20-13:30: Studying health effects of criminal law
14:30-15:30: Measuring Child Rights in Norway
19:00-20:00: Threats to the independence of the judiciary – cross-regional perspectives
Wednesday 24 August:
09:00-10:30: Responsible evidence appraisal by Jeroen van der Sluijs
10:45-12:00: Assessing socio-economic effects of incarceration
12:15-13:30: Trans-gender lawfare
14:30-15:30: Building databases for empirical legal studies
18:00-19:30: Annual Lecture on Law & Social Transformation by Charles Epp: “What makes Climate-Change Litigation effective? Understanding Strategic Litigation Campaigns” Place: Literature House (Auditorium), Østre Skostredet 5-7
Thursday 25 August: Migration & Lawfare
09:00-10:15: Irregular Migrants and Mobilization for Rights
10:30-11:30: Lecture by Susan Banki: A Theory of Refugee Homeland Activism
12:00-13:30: Mobilizing in Exile: Syrian Refugee and Diaspora Mobilization
14:30-15:30: Precarious rights of LGBT refugees
19:00-20:30: Quo Vadis refugee convention Place: UiB Law School Aud 4, Magnus Lagabøtes Plass 1.
Friday 26 August: Lawfare over Natural Resources
09:00-10:30: Land rights & inclusive sustainable development in India
10:45-12:00: Legal struggles for water and environmental protection in São Paulo and Johannesburg
12:15-13:00: Lecture By Charles Epp: Racial Disparities in Policing in the United States: Toward Understanding & Reform