Siri Gloppen
Current projects
Breaking BAD: Understanding the Backlash Against Democracy in Africa
Women on the Bench: The Role of Female Judges in Fragile States
Juridification and Social Citizenship
Completed projects
Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare: Global battles
Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America
Operationalizing a Rights-Based Approach to Health Service Delivery
Climate Change Discourse, Rights, and the Poor
Litigating the Right to Health
Transitional Justice, Violence and Reconciliation
Accountability functions of courts
Political instiutions in Africa: Zambia, Malawi and Uganda compared
The institutional context of the 2004 general elections in Malawi
Courts in transition
The Political Role of the South African Courts
Aid to judicial reform
Democratization and the Judiciary
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Political scientist exploring intersections between law and politics
Siri Gloppen is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen: senior research at CMI: Research Cooordinator at PluriCourts, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo; and Visiting Fellow at Harvard University (fall 2014). She directs the CMI-UiB Centre on Law & Social Transformation and the Bergen Summer Research School 2014: Governance to meet Global challenges.
With a research focus in the intersection between law and politics her work spans: legal mobilization and the social and political role of courts in the global South; constitution-making; human rights, with particular focus on social rights, the right to health and sexual and reproductive rights; election processes, transitional justice and climate change governance. Empirical focus is on Southern and Eastern Africa, India and Latin America.
She directs numerous international research projects, including: "Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare: Global battles" (2014-18); "Land Rights and Inclusive Sustainable Development in India" (2013 - 2016) and "Operationalizing the Right to Health in Service Delivery" (2013-2016)
Recent (collaborative) books include Courts and Power in Latin America and Africa (Palgrave Macmillan 2010); Litigating Health Rights: Can Courts Bring More Justice to Health (Harvard 2011); Climate Change Discourses, Rights and the Poor (Juta 2013); Juridification and Social Citizenship (E.Elgar 2014)