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The Research group on the Sociology of Law together with the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo is hosting an interdisciplinary PhD course with Professor Mark Fathi Massoud on the benefits and burdens of positionality practices in law and society research, highly relevant to social scientists and legal scholars alike.
Bodies know and are known. How do personal experiences interact with political, legal, and scientific knowledge production, and how does this shape the regulation of the body?
The Sámi Law Symposium 2025 discusses the relationship between the green transition and Sámi rights.
This panel discussion addresses the state of international law and justice from the perspective of criminology and sociology of law, human rights, and international law. Amidst a resurgence of global war and violence, do global rules and norms still matter?
The sounds of a sociology of law from the south
Whether recorded, recoded or unregistered, information shapes our present and our future. With her new book Making Information Matter, Mareile Kaufmann invites us to explore what it means to live with information. And what we can do to make it matter differently.
What needs reconciling, who needs reconciling, and what has to be done? The topic of this year’s symposium is transitional justice. The event is open to everyone.
What role can localised or transnational acts of mobilisation play in supporting the rights of forced migrants in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA)?
Thomas Mathiesen was one of the founders of Norwegian sociology of law and gave key contributions to international scholarship and prison abolitionism for several decades. Last May we received the sad news that he had passed away. As the institution where he worked until his retirement, the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law is organizing a seminar in honour of his contribution to scholarship and activism.