LPW Research Group
2023-03-30 14:15 - 15:30 (Europe/Oslo)
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: TBA
2023-04-20 14:15 - 15:30, 2023-06-15 14:15 - 15:30 | Styrerommet, Christies gate 17, University of Bergen
TBA
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: 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.
To receive a zoom invitation to the RDV-webinar, 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-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:
To receive an invitation to the RDV-webinar, 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: 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

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

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
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/62338799290?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 623 3879 9290
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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
For å delta på webinaret klikker du lenken under og følger instruksjonene. Vi anbefaler å laste ned Zoom-applikasjonen på forhånd.
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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).

RDV: Institutional Changes for Democratic Dialogue (Roberto Gargarella)
2023-10-05 14:15 - 15:30 | Bergen Global, Jekteviksbakken 31
We welcome you to our RDV seminar with Professor Roberto Gargarella. He will present the new project he is awarded by the European Research Council (ERC Advanced Grant): “Institutional Changes for Democratic Dialogue». The project aims to make constitutionalism more sensitive to growing democratic demands, by offering concrete institutional alternatives to channel the demands of democracy and engage with activists and members of civil society, from a conception of democracy as a “conversation between equals”. The project stems from the deep crisis affecting constitutional democracies around the world and manifests itself both in a growing lack of confidence in constitutionalism and in an increase in citizens’ dissatisfaction with democracy. The ultimate goal is to design institutional proposals that are both respectful of individual rights and the decisions resulting from democratic dialogue.
Roberto Gargarella, a full professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Buenos Aires, teaches at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina, and is the director of the “Institutional Changes for Democratic Dialogue» project at the Department of Law at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. https://www.biennaldepensament.barcelona/en/participants/roberto-gargarella

How to participate: At Jekteviksbakken 31 or 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: Abolition of child protection - The ultimate denial of child rights
2023-10-26 14:15 - 15:30
In the early 2000s the main narrative in the field of child welfare was an optimistic one. It was believed that families could become stronger if they received help in the form of economic and social support. Child welfare professionals could work together with parents in a respectful, generous, and culturally sensitive way. It was also believed that parents could change for the better if they were offered a restorative, healing approach rather than a strict, punitive response. This approach was meant to be more helpful and supportive to families.
Although there are many who still share this view, there is also a growing condemnation of child welfare. Some view, everything about child welfare as wrong, counter-productive – even a violation of human rights. What’s even more worrying is that the abolitionist viewpoint makes an important error trying to find simple solutions for a very complex issue, namely, how to keep kids safe and their families healthy and stable within the context of the flawed national history in the US related to poverty and race. Just as the child welfare field once relied too heavily on family separation, the abolition school of thought would rid the US of its legally mandated obligation to child safety.
The child welfare system in the US has had decades of attempts toward reform, however the reforms have not gone far enough, nor have they had the widespread or deep effects that many of us want to see. Still, if we are going to abandon the current child welfare system, we must address some of the critical questions that have escaped the profession for decades and helped to drive the call for its end.
Join us for a thought-provoking seminar that delves into the pressing issues surrounding child welfare today!
Jill D. Berrick is a Distinguished Professor and the Zellerbach Family Foundation Professor of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley, and Professor II at the Department of Government, University of Bergen. Her research focuses on the child welfare system and efforts to improve the experiences of children and families touched by foster care. Her interests target the intersection of poverty, childhood development, parenting and the service systems designed to address family well-being. For over three decades Dr. Berrick has conducted a range of studies examining child welfare services for vulnerable families. She has written or co-written 112 books and numerous articles on topics relating to family poverty, child maltreatment and child welfare. https://socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/people/jill-duerr-berrick
How to participate: At Jekteviksbakken 31 or 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).

Courts as Champions of Women, Children, and Marginalised Groups by Brenda Hale
2023-10-27 10:15 - 12:00 | Auditorium Egget (Studentsenteret), Parkveien 1, Bergen, 5007, Norway
On Friday, October 27th, former President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Lady Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond will be the Department of Government’s esteemed speaker at the General Seminar in Politics and Government.
Lady Hale is a trailblazer in British law and achieved several historic milestones throughout her career. She notably became the first woman to serve as President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, a position she held from 2017 until her retirement in 2020.
She received her education at Richmond High School for Girls in North Yorkshire and Girton College, Cambridge, where she currently holds the position of Visitor. Lady Hale was called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn, where she was Treasurer in 2017. For nearly two decades, she taught Law at Manchester University for 18 years, specialising in family and social welfare law, and also practiced at the Manchester Bar for a period.
In 1984, she made history as the first woman to join the Law Commission, which promotes legal reform. Here she played an important role which led to the Children Act of 1989 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005. She was also a founder member of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and chair of its Code of Practice Committee from 1990 until 1994, when she was appointed a Judge of the Family Division of the High Court. She was promoted to the Court of Appeal of England and Wales in 1999 and in 2004 became a ‘Lord of Appeal in Ordinary’ in the House of Lords. This was the top court for the whole United Kingdom, until the ‘Law Lords’ became the Justices of the newly established Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in 2009. She became its Deputy President in 2013 and President in 2017.
While at Manchester University she was joint founding editor of the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law and authored a number of books, including The Family, Law and Society: Cases and Materials and Women and the Law. In 2004, she helped to establish the United Kingdom Association of Women Judges and from 2010 to 2012 served as President of the International Association of Women Judges, a world-wide body of both men and women judges committed to equality and human rights for all. A practising member of the Church of England, she has always taken an interest in religion and the law, and has written and spoken on the subject many times.
Throughout her career, Lady Hale’s impact has reached beyond national boundaries. Her principled stance and intellectual contributions have solidified her legacy as a pioneering figure in the legal community. Through a close connection to academia, she has provided lectures on justice, human rights and the legal system, enriching the discourse in those critical areas.
Topic of the General Seminar:
Courts as Champions of Women, Children, and Marginalised Groups
Both in legal theory and in practice, courts are crucial for the protection of vulnerable groups and insular minorities. Most societies give special protection in law to certain groups, such as children, religious minorities, and indigenous peoples, while for others, the legal protection is less clear, for example when it comes to undocumented migrants and future (climate affected) generations. Minority protection are often perceived as threatening important societal interests (parental rights, the natural family, security, economic growth, green transformation) and increasingly place courts at the centre of heated political contestations. Diverging views between the European Court of Human Right and domestic courts on whose rights should prevail and what the State’s obligations are, add complexity. How should courts navigate, when the rights of vulnerable groups place the judiciary at risk of politicization?

Barnevernfrokost: Fosterhjemsundersøkelsen 2023 - Hva sier stemmene fra fosterhjemmene om hva som skal til for stabilitet og bedre rekruttering?
2023-11-10 09:00 - 09:45
Norge er inne i en fosterhjemskrise! Det er stor mangel på fosterhjem. Barn står i kø for å få et trygt hjem. Fosterhjemsomsorgen er grunnmuren i barneverntjenesten. 9 av 10 barn som av ulike grunner ikke kan bo hjemme med sine foreldre, bor i fosterhjem. Alle parter ønsker at disse barna skal bo i fosterhjem, framfor på institusjon, men det er vanskelig å rekruttere mange nok godkjente fosterhjem. Det er et sammensatt bilde av hvorfor vi er kommet i denne situasjonen, – at barn lever under omsorgssvikt og de ikke får rett hjelp til rett tid. Dette er alvorlig!
Fosterhjemsundersøkelsen er et foto av virkeligheten slik den fortonet seg når over 1500 fosterforeldre og 260 ungdommer som bor i fosterhjem, med sine brukererfaringer, ga oss denne viktige kunnskapen.
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/65269645571?pwd=[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).

Barnevernfrokost: Helt, ikke stykkevis og delt. En modell for organisering av det kliniske arbeidet og en modell for kvalitetssikring av behandlingen
2023-11-24 09:00 - 09:45
Under denne barnevernfrokosten vil det bli presentert en modell for organisering av behandlingsarbeidet som tilbys den enkelte ungdom/familie. Modellen er basert på RNR prinsippene. Videre vil det presenteres en helhetlig modell for kvalitetssikring av behandlingstilbudet som gis, herunder rammebetingelser og organisatoriske faktorer som kan påvirke behandlingen til familiene.

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/62301598881?pwd=[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: The cost of caring: the professional quality of life of child social workers
2023-12-07 14:15 - 15:30 | Zoom
The cost of caring: the professional quality of life of child social workers (Camille Verheyden, Frank Van Holen, Stephanie Chartier & Johan Vanderfaeillie)
Several international studies show that child social workers are at increased risk of developing burnout and secondary traumatic stress. Causes are: working daily with vulnerable children and families, confronting others’ traumas, the many demands and challenges of the job and, the high workload. In addition, the sector is currently struggling with high dropout rates and staff turnover. This context forms a threat to the professional quality of life of child social workers resulting in negative consequences for the child social workers themselves, the persons they accompany and the organisations where they are employed. To date, there are few results available on the professional quality of life (burnout, secondary traumatic stress, compassion satisfaction) of child social workers in Europe and there are none for Belgium (Flanders and Wallonia) so far. To gain insight into this, we investigated the professional quality of life of child social workers in Flanders and Wallonia. Camille Verheyden and Johan Vanderfaeillie will share their preliminary findings from their study.
Camille Verheyden is a PhD-student at the Department Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her research focuses on family foster care , child abuse and neglect, and the professional quality of life of youth care professionals. https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/camille-verheyden
Johan Vanderfaeillie is a Professor at the Department Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is doing research into child welfare issues, with foster care and child maltreatment as core subjects. He studies all kinds of issues regarding foster care: breakdown, reunification, decision making in foster care and interventions for foster parents. In addition, he also studies the short- and long-term outcomes of foster placements. His research into child maltreatment focuses on the detection and reporting of child abuse and neglect, and the outcomes of interventions aiming at preventing child abuse and neglect. https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/johan-vanderfaeillie

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).
