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Professor Anu Bradford, at Columbia Law School wins he prestigious 2024 Stein Rokkan Prize for the book Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology.
Lili Katharina visited Bergen and Sampol for a semester: – Norway is a very inclusive and diverse country, and it was wonderful to see how everyone is included in its national holiday.
A diverse and large group of students participated the first weekend of the “Business and Human Rights Course.”
«If climate policies want to be successful, they must be about more than climate,» professor Michaël Tatham says.
Some Norwegian politicians that are skeptical about gender quotas in politics are positive about gender quotas in the leadership of religious organizations, according to new research.
Itay is taking a PhD at UNC Chapel Hill. This semester he is visiting Sampol.
– I want to understand very specifically which electoral reforms can contribute to making democracy in aging societies more generationally equitable.
Aaron Spitzer’s ERC project, CONFRONT, has started. Over a period of five years, the project will explore arising conflicts between settlers and indigenous peoples.
Dalia Grybauskaitė visited the Christie Conference and the Institute of Comparative Politics this week.
Georg Picot’s WAGEREG project has come to an end.
«Is there a response pattern that cuts across different crises? We don’t really know,» UiB researcher Pierre-Georges Van Wolleghem says. Now he wants to study just that.
Arjan Schakel’s project is coming to an end: –We have cracked open the black box of regional voting.
Julià Tudó Cisquella joins the department as PhD candidate on the PARTYCLIM project.
Elisabeth Lyons is the first exchange student from Chapel Hill in the USA to UiB and Sampol through CONTEST.
Professor David Altman, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, is Scholar-in-Residence at the department throughout January
On November 16 and 17, 2023, Marte Samuelsen Skogen and Michaël Tatham organized a workshop, titled "The Politics of Climate Governance: Resistance and Reactions to Change".
Fay Farstad started at the Department in October 2023, coming from a position as a Senior Researcher at CICERO Center for International Climate Research
The Right to International Protection (PROTECT) is now colncluded. The project has received an outstanding review from external experts.

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