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) [email protected]

Bruce Wilson

(University of Central Florida/CMI) [email protected]

Charles Ngwena

(University of Pretoria) [email protected]

Paola Bergallo

(University of Palermo, Buenos Aires) [email protected]

Alison Johnston

(Oregon State University)[email protected]

Theresa Squatrito

(PluriCourts, University of Oslo) [email protected]

Stephanie Schmolzer

(PluriCourts, University of Oslo [email protected]

Malcolm Langford

(NCHR, University of Oslo /CMI) [email protected]

Tori Loven Kirkebø

(University of Oslo) [email protected]

Gunnar Grendstad

(Comparative Politics, UiB) [email protected]

Elisabeth Ivarsflaten

(Comparative Politics, UiB) [email protected]

Siri Gloppen

(Comparative Politics, UiB(CMI) [email protected]

Andrea Castagnola

(Comparative Politics, UiB) [email protected]

Camila Gianella

(Comparative Politics, UiB) [email protected]

Vegard Vibe

(Comparative Politics, UiB) [email protected]

Lise Rakner                      

 (Comparative Politics, UiB/CMI) [email protected]

Svein-Erik Helle

(Comparative Politics, UiB) [email protected]

Jon Kåre Skiple

(Comparative Politics, UiB) [email protected]

Henrik Litleré Bentsen

 (Comparative Politics, UiB) [email protected]

Lise Lund Bjånesøy

(Comparative Politics, UiB)[email protected]

Olav Bjørnebekk

(Comparative Politics, UiB)     [email protected]

Kurt-Rune Bergset

(Comparative Politics, UiB) [email protected]

Roald Kalheim

(Comparative Politics, UiB)  [email protected]

Maja Janmyr    

(Faculty of Law, University of Bergen)[email protected]

Linda Grøning

(Faculty of Law, University of Bergen)[email protected] 

Jørn Jacobsen

(Faculty of Law, University of Bergen)[email protected]