All master's students at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law are welcome to participate in the workshop.
Program
- Peter Scharff Smith: Welcome
- Jules Lobel: "Participatory Litigation: Prisoner Leadership in Challenging Prolonged Solitary Confinement in the United States"
- Maria Hessen Jacobsen: «Changing the Norwegian correctional system case by case - Strategic litigation and legal political mobilization”
- Jussbuss: “50 years of Participatory Litigation: How Jussbuss has worked in close collaboration with our clients to further both their own cases and social politics”
Speakers
Jules Lobel is Professor in Law at at the University of Pittsburgh and has been President of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York. Lobel has published extensively on international and constitutional law as well as on the use of solitary confinement in prisons. He has litigated numerous cases involving Constitutional and Human Rights issues in the United States Courts and has represented members of Congress challenging various Presidents as well as human rights violations committed by the United States government in fighting terrorism. Lobel has recently authored the article "Participatory Litigation. A New Framework for Impact Lawyering”: https://www.stanfordlawreview.org/print/article/participatory-litigation/
Maria Hessen Jacobsen is a defense attorney and partner at Elden who specialize in human rights and prison law. She has brought numerous cases concerning prison conditions and prison regimes to trial and successfully challenged Norwegian penal practices on many occasions. In 2021 she was awarded the Rule of Law prize by the Norwegian Association of Lawyers. She is Head of the Human rights committee with the Norwegian Bar Association.
Through 50 years Jussbuss has been a project in the field of legal sociology. We work in close collaboration with our clients and use what we learn from the individual cases to identify holes in the legal framework and to comment on the situation in Norwegian Prisons. We also work with elected members of the Parliament to fill the gaps in the legal framework."