Programme

Wednesday 20 August:

12:00              

Lunch

13:00             

Welcome and opening (Siri Gloppen, Malcolm Langford)

13:30            

Overview of the Field (Chair: Charles Ngwena)

Quantitative approaches to:

  • the study of legal mobilization (Theresa Squatrito)
  • the study of judicial behaviour (Gunnar Grendstad)
  • the study of judicial independence (Andrea Castagnola)

15:00                          

Coffee & Tea  

15:30             

Overview of the Field (continued) (Chair:  Lise Rakner)

Quantitative approaches to:

  • the study of effects of courts and legal mobilization (Daniel Brinks)
  • the study of attitudinal effects (Elisabeth Ivarsflaten)

17:00             

The Sexual and Reproducive Rights Lawfare project

Siri Gloppen: Introduction to the SRR project

Malcolm Langford    Quantitative Methods and Sexual and Reproductive Rights: The State of Research

19:00            

Informal dinner (Sølvberget 22)

 

Thursday 21 August : Work in Progress
Commentators: Daniel Brinks, Alison Johnston

9:00  

Sexual and Reproducive Rights Lawfare  (Chair: Siri Gloppen)

 

Malcolm Langford, Vegard Vibe & Tori L Kirkebø: Quantifying Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare: An Emerging Database

 

Bruce Wilson & Camila Gianella: Studying effects of LGBT lawfare in Latin America

 

Paola Bergallo: Problems of judicial data

10:30

Coffee & Tea

10:45

Public opinion on sexual and reproductive rights

(Chair: Maja Janmyr, Comments: Elisabeth Ivarsflaten)

 

Camila Gianella: Public polls - good tool to assess support to abortion?

 

Malcolm Langford: Public Opinion and Sexual and Reproductive Rights: An Experimental Survey on the Role of Courts”  

 

Lise Bjånesøy: Populist radical right voters in Western Europe: Testing the three-dimensional political space hypotheses, and the surprising issue of gay rights.

12:15 – 13:00

Lunch

13:00           

Judicial politics (Chair: Bruce Wilson)

 

Jon Kåre Skiple & Henrik L. Bentsen: Using multi-level analysis to study court decisions

 

Andrea Castagnola: Legacies of Judicial Instability in Latin America

14:00 – 14:30 

Coffe & Tea                          

 

Svein-Erik Helle: Courts in Elections

 

Theresa Squatrito: Access to International Courts: Legitimacy Enhancing?

 

Malcolm Langford: Quantifying Social Rights Adjudication

16:00           

Closing

 

 

Participants:

 

Daniel Brinks  

(University of Texas at Austin/CMI) danbrinks@austin.utexas.edu

Bruce Wilson

(University of Central Florida/CMI) Bruce.Wilson@ucf.edu

Charles Ngwena

(University of Pretoria) charlesngwena@gmail.com

Paola Bergallo

(University of Palermo, Buenos Aires) paola.bergallo@gmail.com

Alison Johnston

(Oregon State University)Alison.Johnston@oregonstate.edu

Theresa Squatrito

(PluriCourts, University of Oslo) theresa.squatrito@jus.uio.no

Stephanie Schmolzer

(PluriCourts, University of Oslo stephanie.schmolzer@jus.uio.no

Malcolm Langford

(NCHR, University of Oslo /CMI) malcolm.langford@nchr.uio.no

Tori Loven Kirkebø

(University of Oslo) tkirkebo@gmail.com

Gunnar Grendstad

(Comparative Politics, UiB) Gunnar.Grendstad@isp.uib.no

Elisabeth Ivarsflaten

(Comparative Politics, UiB) elisabeth.ivarsflaten@isp.uib.no

Siri Gloppen

(Comparative Politics, UiB(CMI) siri.gloppen@cmi.no

Andrea Castagnola

(Comparative Politics, UiB) andrea.castagnola@flacso.edu.mx

Camila Gianella

(Comparative Politics, UiB) camila.gianella@gmail.com

Vegard Vibe

(Comparative Politics, UiB) Vegard.Vibe@aorg.uib.no

Lise Rakner                      

 (Comparative Politics, UiB/CMI) lise.rakner@isp.uib.no

Svein-Erik Helle

(Comparative Politics, UiB) Svein-Erik.Helle@isp.uib.no

Jon Kåre Skiple

(Comparative Politics, UiB) Jon.Skiple@isp.uib.no

Henrik Litleré Bentsen

 (Comparative Politics, UiB) Henrik.Bentsen@isp.uib.no

Lise Lund Bjånesøy

(Comparative Politics, UiB)Lise.Bjanesoy@svfa.uib.no

Olav Bjørnebekk

(Comparative Politics, UiB)     Olav.Bjornebekk@student.uib.no

Kurt-Rune Bergset

(Comparative Politics, UiB) Kurt-Rune.Bergset@isp.uib.no

Roald Kalheim

(Comparative Politics, UiB)  Roald.Kalheim@student.uib.no

Maja Janmyr    

(Faculty of Law, University of Bergen)Maja.Janmyr@jur.uib.no

Linda Grøning

(Faculty of Law, University of Bergen)Linda.Groning@jur.uib.no 

Jørn Jacobsen

(Faculty of Law, University of Bergen)Jorn.Jacobsen@jur.uib.no