Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (DIPA)

RDV: Stigmatized & excluded: Child maltreatment registries in the United States and their collateral consequences for low-income women and women of color (Colleen Henry)
2023-03-09 14:15 - 15:30 (Europe/Oslo) | Styrerommet, Christies gate 17, University of Bergen
Colleen Henry is an Associate Professor at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, City University of New Work. Henry holds a PhD in Social Welfare, after completing her dissertation in 2014 on Constructing maltreatment: An urban child welfare agency’s response to child exposure to domestic violence. Among other areas, she researched child maltreatment registries in the US and how they have strayed from the original intention of family protection, with some marginalized groups of the population being overrepresented in the child protection system. https://sssw.hunter.cuny.edu/staff-members/henry-colleen-m-s-w-ph-d/
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LPW Research Group Meeting
2023-03-16 14:15 - 15:30
Barbara Ruiken: TBA
This is a closed research group meeting.

LPW Research Group
2023-03-16 14:15 - 15:30
Barbara Ruiken: TBA
This is a closed research group.

RDV: TBA
2023-03-23 14:15 - 15:30, 2023-04-20 14:15 - 15:30, 2023-06-15 14:15 - 15:30 | Styrerommet, Christies gate 17, University of Bergen
TBA
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The webinar is part of the RDV-webinar series – a collaboration between DIPA (UiB) and LawTransform (UiB).

RDV: Exploring the Potential of Plural Land Regimes and Indigenous Imagination for mitigating Climate Effects: A Case Study from India (Namita Wahi)
2023-03-23 14:15 - 15:30 | Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31
Namita Wahi is a Senior Fellow at Centre for Policy Research, where she leads the Land Rights Initiative, and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Law and Social Transformation in Bergen. She holds a doctoral degree from Harward Law School, and her research interests are in the areas of property rights, social and economic rights, and eminent domain or expropriation law. She has written extensively on these issues in various academic journals and edited volumes, as well as newspapers and magazines. Namita has taught courses in these areas at Harvard University, both at the Law School and the Department of Government, and at the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. https://cprindia.org/people/namita-wahi/
How to participate: At Jekteviksbakken 31 or digitally via Zoom.
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If the Zoom application is new to you, we recommend that you press the link well before the events to download the program. You may leave and rejoin the meeting at any time.
The webinar is part of the RDV-hybrid seminar series – a collaboration between DIPA (UiB) and LawTransform (UiB).

LPW Research Group Meeting
2023-03-30 14:15 - 15:30
Mathea Loen: TBA
This is a closed research group meeting.

LPW Research Group
2023-03-30 14:15 - 15:30
Mathea Loen: TBA
This is a closed research group.

LPW Research Group
2023-04-13 14:15 - 15:00
Hege Helland: TBA
This is a closed research group.

LPW Research Group Meeting
2023-04-13 14:15 - 15:30
Hege Helland: TBA
This is a closed research group meeting.

Public seminar of NOU on child protection
2023-04-14 14:00 - 15:30 | Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31
Public seminar on the NOU-report about rule of law in the Norwegian child protection system
Friday 14th of April, at 2pm, DIPA and LawTransform invite to a discussion of the NOU 2023: 7 “Trygg barndom, sikker fremtid” (Safe childhood, secure future).
The expert committee examining the situation in Norwegian Child Protection, delivered their report Monday 20th of March 2023. Professor Marit Skivenes (UiB) lead the work.
We invite you to an open seminar to discuss the report, with a special focus on courts and belonging for children that cannot be reunified with their natural parents!

Panel
• Head of the Committee: Professor Marit Skivenes
• A member of the committee: Psychologist Jorunn Øpsen
• Judge: Lise Gro Søreide
• Norsk Fosterhjemsforening: Marianne Oftedahl
•Moderator, PhD candidate from the Faculty of Law: Marthe Engedahl

Program
14:00- 14:30: Introduction: About the NOU in general and distinctively about the courts with Marit Skivenes.
14:30-14:40: Introduction on continuity and the situation for children who cannot live at home with Jorunn Øpsen
14:40- 14:50: Comment on the court with judge Lise Gro Søreide
14:50- 15:00: Comment on foster homes and children who cannot live at home with Marianne Oftedahl from Norsk Fosterhjemsforening.

15:00- 15:30: Questions and discussion

How to participate: @Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31 or digitally via Zoom.
When: Friday 14th of April
Time: 14:00-15.30
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RDV: Frontiers of conflict: Peripheries, nation-building, and the rights revolution (Aaron John Spitzer)
2023-04-20 14:30 - 15:30 | Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31
Aaron John Spitzer is an associate professor at the Department of Comparative Politics at UiB. Spitzer received his PhD from the same department in 2020 with the dissertation “The metapolitics of settler-colonialism.”Aaron has two main areas of research. In the first, he employs comparative methods to study Arctic and Indigenous governance, especially examining what Sami might learn from, and contribute to, Indigenous governance in Canada and the US. In his second area of research, Aaron employs constitutional law and normative political theory to explore “metapolitics,” meaning contestation over the boundaries between the foreign and the domestic, especially in settler-colonial democracies. https://www.uib.no/en/sampol/157174/

How to participate: At Jekteviksbakken 31 or digitally via Zoom.
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The webinar is part of the RDV-hybrid seminar series – a collaboration between DIPA (UiB) and LawTransform (UiB).

LPW Research Group Meeting
2023-04-27 14:15 - 15:30
Frøydis Jensen: TBA
This is a closed research group meeting.

LPW Research Group
2023-04-27 14:15 - 15:30
Frøydis Jensen: TBA
This is a closed research group.

RDV: When Misfortune Becomes Injustice: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality (Alicia Ely Yamin)
2023-05-02 14:15 - 15:30 | Styrerommet, Christies gate 17, University of Bergen
Alicia Ely Yamin holds several positions: She is a Lecturer on Law and Senior Fellow on Global Health and Rights at Harvard Law School, and Adjunct Senior Lecturer on Health Policy and Management at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Throughout her career, Yamin has combined academia and activism, and she is currently Senior Advisor on Human Rights and Health Policy at the global health justice organization, Partners In Health. Yamin is globally known and, in addition to conducting international and comparative research, she has served as an expert on global committees such as the United Nations and World Health Organization. At the heart of Yamin’s research interests, lie the right to health, including sexual and reproductive health. https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/alicia-yamin/
How to participate:
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The webinar is part of the RDV-webinar series – a collaboration between DIPA (UiB) and LawTransform (UiB).

RDV: When Misfortune Becomes Injustice: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality (Alicia Ely Yamin)
2023-05-04 14:30 - 15:30 | Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31
Alicia Ely Yamin holds several positions: She is a Lecturer on Law and Senior Fellow on Global Health and Rights at Harvard Law School, and Adjunct Senior Lecturer on Health Policy and Management at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Throughout her career, Yamin has combined academia and activism, and she is currently Senior Advisor on Human Rights and Health Policy at the global health justice organization, Partners In Health. Yamin is globally known and, in addition to conducting international and comparative research, she has served as an expert on global committees such as the United Nations and World Health Organization. At the heart of Yamin’s research interests, lie the right to health, including sexual and reproductive health. https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/alicia-yamin/

The webinar is part of the RDV-webinar series – a collaboration between DIPA (UiB) and LawTransform (UiB).

LPW Research Group Meeting
2023-05-11 14:15 - 15:30
Martine Baarholm: MA draft
This is a closed research group meeting.

LPW Research Group
2023-05-11 14:15 - 15:30
Martine Baarholm: MA draft
This is a closed research group.

RDV: World and Queer Anthropologies and the Question of Legal Reform (Svati Shah)
2023-05-22 14:30 - 15:30 | Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31
Svati P. Shah is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. They are also a research associate in the University of Pretoria’s Department of Anthropology, Archaeology and Development. Dr. Shah is a social anthropologist who has written extensively on questions of sexuality and political economy in India, including on questions of sex work and migration, and queer politics and nationalism. Svati Shah : Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies : UMass Amherst
In this talk, Svati Shah will discuss how queer theory has opened up space in academic research to think expansively about sexuality and gender in the Global South. She will also discuss implications of field-level interventions that merge critiques from both Queer Anthropology and from World Anthropologies.
The webinar is part of the RDV-webinar series – a collaboration between DIPA (UiB) and LawTransform (UiB).

RDV: International law and organization (Rachel Cichowski)
2023-05-25 14:15 - 15:30 | Styrerommet, Christies gate 17, University of Bergen
Rachel Cichowski is a Professor in the Law, Societies and Justice Department and the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. She is Adjunct Faculty in the School of Law, Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, and a member of the European Studies Faculty at the University of Washington. Cichowski’s areas of expertise include international law and organization, comparative judicial politics and constitutionalism, and transnational legal mobilization and social movements. Furthermore, she has a keen interest in human rights, including global women’s rights and environmental protection.

http://faculty.washington.edu/rcichows/
https://www.polisci.washington.edu/people/rachel-cichowski

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LPW Research Group Meeting
2023-06-08 14:15 - 15:30, 2023-06-22 14:15 - 15:30
TBA
This is a closed research group meeting.

LPW Research Group
2023-06-08 14:15 - 15:30, 2023-06-22 14:15 - 15:30
TBA
This is a closed research group.

Barnevernfrokost: Hvordan uttrykk for traumeerfaringer kan mistolkes av Barnevernet og andre
2023-06-16 09:00 - 09:45 | (Styrerommet (17.103), Christies gate 17, University of Bergen
På fredagens barnevernfrokost gir Dag Øystein Nordanger en presentasjon med tittel: “Hvordan uttrykk for traumeerfaringer kan mistolkes av Barnevernet og andre”. Presentasjonen vil fokusere på hvordan barn som er utsatt for store belastninger lett overses fordi vanskene deres misforstås eller tolkes som noe annet.
Dag Øystein Nordanger er psykologspesialist ved RVTS Vest og professor ved OsloMet. Hans forskning og formidling har vært sentral for fagutviklingen i Norge når det gjelder forståelsen av traumatiserte barns behov. Nordanger har blitt prisbelønnet for sin formidling på området, og han er en ettertraktet foredragsholder. Hans kompetanse inkluderer hvordan omsorgserfaringer kan påvirke barns hjerneutvikling og fungering, både positivt og negativt.
Hvordan delta på Barnevernfrokost
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Barnevernfrokost er en åpen webinar-serie om barnevern og barns rettigheter. Serien arrangeres av Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) i samarbeid med Bergen kommune – Etat for barn og familie og Centre on Law and Social Transformation (UiB).

Barnevernfrokost: Standardisering av beslutningsprosessen i barnevernet
2023-06-30 09:00 - 09:45 | (Styrerommet (17.103), Christies gate 17, University of Bergen
På fredagens barnevernfrokost gir Marina Snipsøyr Sletten en presentasjon med tittel: “Standardisering av beslutningsprosessen i barnevernet”. Presentasjonen vil fokusere på resultat fra studie om hvordan bruk av standardiserte kartleggingsverktøy virker inn på beslutningsprosessen i barnevernets undersøkelsesarbeid. Resultatene bygger på feltarbeid som ble utført i to barneverntjenester. På bakgrunn av funnene argumenterer Marina for at bruk av standardiserte verktøy virker inn på barnevernets skjønnsutøvelse som bidrar til en standardisering av beslutning arbeidet og en snever kunnskapsbase. Hun argumenterer også for at bruk av standardiserte verktøy ikke ser ut til å øke barnevernsansatte analytiske kompetanse og løser dermed ikke utfordringene i barnevernet.

Marina Snipsøyr Sletten jobber som førsteamanuensis ved Institutt for velferd, ledelse og organisasjon (Høgskulen i Østfold). Hun har en Ph.D i samfunnsvitenskap fra Universitetet i Stavanger, og hennes forskningsinteresser er blant annet innen barnevern, i tillegg til standardisering og digitalisering. Som førsteamanuensis underviser Marina, gir veiledning og forsker. Hennes siste prosjekt handler om digitalisering og samarbeidsprosesser i kommuner.

Hvordan delta på Barnevernfrokost
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Meeting ID: 611 7470 0302
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Barnevernfrokost er en åpen webinar-serie om barnevern og barns rettigheter. Serien arrangeres av Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) i samarbeid med Bergen kommune – Etat for barn og familie og Centre on Law and Social Transformation (UiB).

Barnevernfrokost: Juridiske endringer og forskyvninger i svensk sosial barneomsorg – fra gjenforening til stabilitet for plasserte barn
2023-09-01 09:00 - 09:45
På fredagens barnevernfrokost gir Pernilla Leviner en presentasjon med tittel: “Juridiske endringer og forskyvninger i svensk sosial barneomsorg – fra gjenforening til stabilitet for plasserte barn”.
Sjelden har svensk sosial barneomsorg blitt diskutert så intensivt som de siste tre årene. I kjølvannet av en svært omtalt tragisk sak om en knapt fire år gammel jente som ble drept av foreldrene som hun hadde flyttet til etter å ha blitt plassert siden fødselen, har en rekke reformer blitt implementert og flere politiske initiativ er under utredning. Samlet sett representerer endringene et skifte fra en klar vektlegging av gjenforening mellom plasserte barn og deres biologiske foreldre til en sterkere vektlegging av barns behov for kontinuitet og stabilitet. Plasseringer må vurderes i større grad og tidligere, og mye tyder på at plasseringer vil bli lengre og mer varige. Dette, noe forenklet, går i stikk motsatt retning av de reformene som i lys av flere dommer fra EU-domstolen er gjennomført i Norge de siste årene. Forskjellene mellom Norge og Sverige er interessante med tanke på likhetene våre systemer fortsatt har og at det handler om den samme overordnede avveiningen mellom barns rett til beskyttelse og individers rett til privat- og familieliv, som begge er regulert i både FN-konvensjonen om barnets rettigheter og den europeiske konvensjonen.
I dette foredraget forsøker Pernilla Leviner, professor i offentlig rett og direktør ved Barnerettssenteret ved Stockholms universitet, å beskrive hovedtrekkene i endringene i det svenske systemet og å diskutere problemene og utfordringene som reformene kan føre til fra et overordnet perspektiv, ikke minst i lys av reformer som er gjennomført i Norge.
Pernilla Leviner jobber som professor i offentlig rett med særlig fokus på sosialrett og barnerett (Stockholms Universitet). Hun er fagansvarlig for familierettslig forskning og undervisning ved det juridiske institutt, og som forsker er hun tilknyttet Barnerettssenteret hvor hun er direktør og styremedlem. Barnerettssenteret er en tverrfaglig forskningsplattform med fokus på juridiske spørsmål knyttet til barn og barns rettigheter. Pernillas forskningsinteresser er innen offentlig rett og familierett – mer spesifikt barnerett og velferdsrett.

Hvordan delta på Barnevernfrokost
For å delta på webinaret klikker du lenken under og følger instruksjonene. Vi anbefaler å laste ned Zoom-applikasjonen på forhånd.
https://uib.zoom.us/j/62927425662?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 629 2742 5662
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Barnevernfrokost er en åpen webinar-serie om barnevern og barns rettigheter. Serien arrangeres av Centre for Research on Discretion and Paternalism (UiB) i samarbeid med Bergen kommune – Etat for barn og familie og Centre on Law and Social Transformation (UiB).

RDV: Analysis or paralysis? Monitory mechanisms for child protection services in Ireland (Kenneth Burns)
2023-09-21 14:15 - 15:30 | Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31
Child protection and welfare systems are one essential part of a nation state’s approach to protecting and promoting the welfare of children. Keane (2022) argues that we are in a new phase of democracy called ‘monitory democracy’. In this phase, democratic systems develop power scrutinising mechanisms and institutions that focus on public accountability and governance, with this ‘monitoring’ work being undertaken by government institutions and civil society actors. As child protection and welfare systems are entrusted with significant power by governments, they are a significant focus of such monitoring.
The focus of this paper is to examine the strategies and mechanisms adopted by Ireland to monitor the operation, quality and development of its child protection and welfare system. In using the term monitor/monitory, the focus of analysis will be on the Irish system of governance, oversight and monitoring of state-provided child protection and welfare services.
Kenneth Burns is a senior lecturer, Deputy Director of the Master of Social Work course and Director of Practice (social work) at University College Cork. He has worked as a social worker and social work team leader in child protection and welfare. His main research and teaching interests are in child protection policy and practice, staff retention, social media abuse in social work, child care proceedings in the District Court / voluntary care / informal kinship care, and community-based participatory research. http://research.ucc.ie/profiles/A012/kburns
How to participate: At Jekteviksbakken 31 or digitally via Zoom.
To receive a zoom invitation to the RDV-webinar, please contact discretion@uib.no.
If the Zoom application is new to you, we recommend that you press the link well before the events to download the program. You may leave and rejoin the meeting at any time.
The webinar is part of the RDV-webinar series – a collaboration between DIPA (UiB) and LawTransform (UiB).

RDV: Child participation and child protection: lessons from international research (Aoife Daly)
2023-09-28 14:15 - 15:30 | (Styrerommet (17.103), Christies gate 17, University of Bergen
We welcome you to our RDV seminar with Professor Aoife Daly. She will give a talk on a paper which is based on her book “Children, Autonomy and the Courts: Beyond the Right to be Heard“. This paper is concerned with the influence of children on decisions affecting them. It appears that the right to be heard under Article 12 of the UN convention on the rights of the child has brought some positive change in terms of children simply feeling heard. It is not all about outcomes – the perception of being listened to, of being taken seriously, is undoubtedly good for children: I think the judge kind of listened to me in the end. There is evidence that the right to be heard has encouraged an attitude shift when it comes to hearing children and valuing their views – there is a sense that children should be heard, at least in some circumstances. Yet there is little point hearing children if their wishes are unlikely to make any difference to outcomes. Indeed Article 12 of the CRC says that children’s views must be given due weight, which implies some level of influence. What does international research demonstrate in terms of the influence of children’s wishes and child protection proceedings in courts? This paper presents research in this area, and findings point to inconsistent, confusing and illogical approaches by the courts to children’s wishes. The reasons for this are considered in this paper. It is emphasised that courts refuse to accept that there is a limited ability to ensure a ‘good’ outcome. This is to the detriment of a good process, one which prioritises children’s wishes. Courts also think that they are acting as benevolent parents when they impose best interest determinations, which is mistaken as courts are representatives of the state (and therefore have the threat of force behind them). It is also mistaken because families do not always operate in a ‘parents say, children do’ It is argued that there is a risk that the Article 12 right to be heard, and its lack of influence for children in reality, in fact works to uphold traditional power dynamics. The state wins because children’s wishes can be overridden when they incline against state authorities, or prevailing beliefs such as ‘contact at all costs.’ It seems that children’s wishes within the ‘right to be heard’ framework are least effective where they are needed the most – where those wishes incline against adults, and particularly where they incline against the status quo. The question of whether a focus on autonomy would shift this influence gap will be posed.
Aoife Daly teaches law, and specialises in human rights law. Aoife’s research focuses on human rights based approaches and children’s rights in areas which include environmental rights, climate activism, and access to justice. She is at present researching children/youth and how their environmental activism is impacting human rights law. In 2023 she secured a European Research Council Consolidator Grant to build a team to carry out a large scale research study on child/youth climate justice-inside and outside the courts-around the world. UCC Research Profiles: Aoife Daly, Law
How to participate: At Christies gate 17, Styrerommet (rom 17.103 ) or digitally via Zoom.
To receive a zoom invitation to the RDV-webinar, please contact discretion@uib.no.
If the Zoom application is new to you, we recommend that you press the link well before the events to download the program. You may leave and rejoin the meeting at any time.
The webinar is part of the RDV-webinar series – a collaboration between DIPA (UiB) and LawTransform (UiB).
