My research interest are at the intersection of law and politics, and my main contribution to the field of socio-legal studies is the conceptualisation, theorisation and empirical study of the use of law and legal institutions at a political tool and strategy for social change. Through a range of collaborative projects, my colleagues and I have explored the use of law as a political strategy in different contexts, how it is engaged by diverse actors, and in various policy fields and institutional arenas. This includes conceptualising and analysing how actors face different legal and political opportunity structures based on their resources, barriers and allies, as well as how they are normative and epistemically embedded. 

In recent years I have particularly focused on what is theorised as lawfare:  the use of legal arenas and strategies in long-standing, iterative political battles between starkly opposed groups.  Based on this theoretical core, we have developed analytical frameworks and comparative studies to systematically explore legal-political dynamics and lawfare processes across regions and thematic fields.

I have extensive experience leading international, interdisciplinary research teams. Over the last ten years, I have been the PI for six multi-year projects, acquired through competitive grants and involving researchers from institutions on five continents and from a range of disciplines (Law, Political Science, Anthropology, Economics, Psychology, Philosophy, Medicine). I have also played a central role in acquiring grants for and implementing eight other research projects in this period. The projects focus on the role of rights, law and courts in political change and social development, investigating how this plays out in different fields – from climate change, indigenous rights, land- and water rights, via health, reproductive right and gender equality, to elections and autocratization dynamics.  Commitment to excellent, interdisciplinary, research addressing urgent global challenges is at the centre of the projects, which are ambitious in terms of theory development, methodology and empirical analysis. They are also implemented in close dialogue with practitioners and students.

The close integration of research and learning are also at the core of the Centre on Law & Social Transformation (LawTransform) of which I am the founding director. LawTransform is jointly owned by the Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen but is a global Centre with fellows from all continents and a wide range of disciplines. The annual research conference, Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation – which includes a PhD course – brings together internationally leading scholars, students and practitioners and have become a vitalizing space for socio-legal research in Bergen and a global hub for research on law and social change. LawTransform, and the individual research projects involve practitioners – judges, policy makers, activist – as dialogue partners to secure that their insights are reflected, that the projects are useful, and the findings known. I have also extended the research into more directly applied work (World Bank, Norad).

I have developed and taught a range of courses, including fully digital courses – at UiB:

PhD Courses:

Effects of Lawfare (2015-2024); Gendered Autucratisation  (2024); Climate Change Governance (2020, 2014); ); Rights as Governance & Political Tools: Gender Based Violence (2018); Inequality & Governance (2015); Health Litigation (2010); Human Rights & Poverty (2008)

MA Courses:

Constitution & Politics (with UiB Law School 2014-2024); Climate Change Governance (2021 2013)  Law as Political Strategy (2017, 2018); Breaking BAD, Backlash against democracy (2019); Deepening Democracy - Democratic Innovations (2012) Previous courses: Checking the State; Constitutionalism; Citizenship; Human Rights & Social Justice; International Justice

BA Courses:

Law, Politics & Welfare (2024)

Courts, Law & Politics ( 2015-2021) Political Theory (1995-2000)

Media interview

• Hege Stein Helland; Marit Skivenes; Siri Gloppen (2025). An interview with the editors of Child Protection and the European Court of Human Rights: Lessons from Norway in the Development and Contestation of Children’s Rights. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2009). Ytringsfriheten 20 år etter fatwaen mot Salman Rushdie. (external link)

Book anthology

• Hege Stein Helland; Marit Skivenes; Siri Gloppen (2025). Child protection and the European court of human rights. Lessons from Norway in the Development and Contestation of Children’s Rights. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Adrian Jjuuko; Alan Msosa et al. (2022). Queer lawfare in Africa: Legal strategies in contexts of LGBTIQ+ criminalisation and politicisation. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Alicia Ely Yamin (2011). Litigating Health Rights: Can Courts Bring More Justice to Health (Harvard Law School Human Rigthts Programme Series). (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2005). Roads to Reconciliation. (external link)
• Elisabeth Eide; Dag Elgesem; Siri Gloppen et al. (2014). Klima, medier og politikk. (external link)
• Lise Rakner; Siri Gloppen (2007). Globalization and democratization: Challenges for political parties. (external link)
• Jackie Dugard; Asuncion Lera St. Clair; Siri Gloppen (2013). CLIMATE TALK. Rights, Poverty and Justice. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2004). Democratization and the Judiciary: The Accountability Function of Courts in New Democracies. (external link)
• Henriette Sinding Aasen; Siri Gloppen; Anne-Mette Magnussen et al. (2014). Juridification and social citizenship in the welfare state. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Roberto Gargarella; Elin Skaar (2004). Democratization and the Judiciary. The Accountability Function of Courts in New Democracies. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Alicia Ely Yamin (2013). La lucha por los derechos de la salud: ¿puede la justicia ser una herramienta de cambio?. (external link)

Lecture

• Siri Gloppen (2008). Kommentar til Jonas Gahr Støres foredrag "FNs Verdenserklæring om menneskerettighetene 60 år: Dilemmaer for utenrikspolitikken?". (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2015). The right to health and Universal Health Coverage. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Jayna Kothari; Maya Unnithan (2019). Sexual and Reproductive Rights and the Courts. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2013). Opeationalising the right to health. (external link)
• Anne-Mette Magnussen; Henriette Sinding Aasen; Even Nilssen et al. (2013). "Introduction", Juridification and Social Citizenship in the Welfare State. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2021). Challenges and learning from implementing legal abortion - global perspectives. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (1999). Rettsstatsutvikling i Sør-Afrika. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2017). Global Health: Political and Legal Determinants. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2008). Roundtable Talk on Poverty and Human Rights (Chair). (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Siri Gloppen; Geir Ulfstein et al. (2016). International Law, Courts and Democracy in a Time of Extremism. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Camila Gianella; Isabel Cristina Jaramillo Sierra et al. (2019). The Emergence of Conservative Mobilization and Its Effects on Sexual and Reproductive Rights. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2019). Autocratic Lawfare. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Jayna Kothari; Maya Unnithan (2019). Introduction: Framing Legal Approaches to Sexual and Reproductive Rights. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Ole Frithjof Norheim (2010). Litigating for medicines - does it bring justice to health?. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Fiona Shen-Bayh; Vibeke Wang (2018). Malawi Country Case Study. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (1999). Hvor går det sør-afrikanske demokratiet?. (external link)
• Marit Skivenes; Hege Stein Helland; Siri Gloppen (2025). Book Launch: Child Protection and the European Court of Human Rights. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2008). The Democratic Republic of Congo: Leaving the past- shaping the future" (Chair). (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2019). Changing Hearts and Minds? Kenyan Courts, Public Opinion and LGBT Rights. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2018). Den demokratiske rettsstatens kannibalisme. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2010). Human Rights of LGBT people. (external link)
• Elin Skaar; Marianne Tøraasen; Siri Gloppen et al. (2021). Women on the Bench – The role of women judges in fragile states. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2022). Quo Vadis Sexual and Reproductive Rights Activism. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2019). Researching sexual and reproductive rights lawfare, drivers of politicization and health effects of criminalization. (external link)
• Camila Gianella; Siri Gloppen; Isabel C. Jaramillo Sierra et al. (2019). Roundtable: The Emergence of Conservative Mobilization and Its Effects on Sexual and Reproductive Rights. (external link)
• Espen Gamlund; Siri Gloppen; Jesse Tomalty (2022). Hva vi snakker om når vi snakker om menneskerettigheter. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2014). Litigating Health Rigths: Can courts bring more justice to health. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Ingvild Aagedal Skage; Vegard Furustøl Vibe (2019). LGBT rights around the world – strides and setbacks. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Ole Frithjof Norheim (2013). Promoting equity in health through litigation: Considerations for Advocates and Judges. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2004). Demokratiske domstoler?. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2004). Apartheidregimet i Sør-Afrika. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Fiona Shen-Bayh; Vibeke Wang et al. (2019). Malawi Case Study. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (1999). Hvor går det sør-afrikanske demokratiet?. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2017). Researching effects of lawfare. (external link)
• Marit Skivenes; Hege Stein Helland; Mathea Loen et al. (2026). Seminar med MR-N. (external link)
• Camila Gianella; Siri Gloppen; Marta Machado (2019). Understanding the Political Dimensions of the Turning Against Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Peru. (external link)
• Lise Rakner; Siri Gloppen; Matthew Gichohi et al. (2019). Roundtable: Researching Backlash against Democracy. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2015). Queer Lawfare and Political Backlash. Theoretical and comparative perspectives. (external link)
• Elin Skaar; Marianne Tøraasen; Aslak Jangård Orre et al. (2021). Women on the Bench Authors' Workshop. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2013). Constitutionalism, Human Rights and Informal Justice. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2013). Priority Setting in Health: Process, Methods, and Institutions. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Fidelis Edge Kanyongolo; Fiona Shen-Bayh et al. (2018). Judging Democratic Backlash (Breaking BAD project). (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2018). Demokrati, rettsstat og populisme. (external link)
• Oda Ringstad; Fiona Shen-Bayh; Siri Gloppen et al. (2018). Judging democratic backlash. (external link)
• Karina Standal; Siri Gloppen (2021). Klimakrisen i en urettferdig verden. (external link)
• Lise Rakner; Siri Gloppen (2024). A perfect storm for Zimbabwe´s civil society. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2017). Politics of Morality: Democracy and Health Effects. (external link)

Conference poster

• Siri Gloppen; Lise Rakner; Arne Tostensen (2002). Responsiveness to the Concerns of the Poor and Accountability to the Commitment to Reduce Poverty - An Issues Paper (Commissioned by UNDP). (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2008). The Poor and the Judiciary. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Kavita Navlani Søreide; Namita Wahi et al. (2017). Land Rights Environmental Protection and Inclusive Development within Indias Federal System. (external link)

Academic article

• Siri Gloppen; Kavita Navlani Søreide (2019). Tribal Representation and Local Land Governance in the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, India. (external link)
• Camilla Gianella Malca; Elisabeth Fosse; Siri Gloppen (2013). Giving Effect to Children's Right to Health in Colombia? Analysing the Implementation of Court Decisions Ordering Health System Reform. (external link)
• Mathea Loen; Siri Gloppen (2021). Constitutionalising the Right to Water in Kenya and Slovenia: Domestic Drivers, Opportunity Structures, and Transnational Norm Entrepreneurs. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2003). The Accountability Function of the Courts in Tanzania and Zambia. (external link)
• Lise Rakner; Siri Gloppen (2015). Norske klimaparadokser. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (1994). John Rawls rettferdighetsteori og Den norske grunnlov av 1814. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2010). Legal enforcement of social rights: Enabling conditions and impact assessment. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Lise Rakner (2024). Legalised resistance to autocratisation in common law Africa. (external link)
• Jill Duerr Berrick; Siri Gloppen; Larissa Cristina Margarido et al. (2025). A Global Review of Children’s Visibility in Constitutions. (external link)
• Marianne Tøraasen; Elin Skaar; Pilar Domingo et al. (2026). Women judges in fragile states: state of the art and analytical framework. (external link)
• Varun Gauri; Siri Gloppen (2012). Human Rights-Based Approaches to Development: Concepts, Evidence, and Policy. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2021). Conceptualizing Abortion Lawfare. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Fidelis Edge Kanyongolo (2006). The Role of the Judiciary in the 004 General Elections in Malawi. (external link)
• Esperanza Diaz Perez; Svenn-Erik Mamelund; Jarle Eid et al. (2021). Learning from the COVID-19 pandemic among migrants: An innovative, system-level, interdisciplinary approach is needed to improve public health. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Lise Rakner (2002). Tax Reform and Democratic Accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2008). Litigation as a strategy to hold governments accountable for implementing the right to health. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2003). How to Assess the Political Role of the Courts. (external link)
• Asuncion St. Clair; Siri Gloppen (2012). Climate Change Lawfare. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Roberto Gargarella; Elin Skaar (2003). Introduction: The Accountability Function of the Courts in New Democracies. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2003). Kampen for sosiale rettigheter: Er rettssalen riktig arena?. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Fidelis Edge Kanyongolo (2007). Courts and the poor in Malawi: Economic marginalization, vulnerability, and the law. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Siri Gloppen (1997). Apartheid, borgerrettigheter, frihet, menneskerettigheter, libertarianisme, naturrett, rettferdighet, rettigheter, samfunnskontrakt. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2005). South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission as an international model. (external link)
• Henriette Sinding Aasen; Siri Gloppen; Anne-Mette Magnussen et al. (2014). Introduction. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2005). Social Rights Litigation as Transformation: South African Perspectives. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Catalina Vallejo (2013). Red-Green Lawfare: Climate Justice Discourse in Courtrooms. (external link)
• Hege Stein Helland; Marit Skivenes; Siri Gloppen (2025). Children's Rights under pressure: Norway, the European Court of Human Rights and the challenge of welfare state legitimacy. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Adrian Jjuuko; Frans Viljoen et al. (2022). Queer lawfare in Africa: Introduction and theoretical framework. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Adrian Jjuuko; Frans Viljoen et al. (2022). Conclusion: The kaleidoscope of queer lawfare in Africa. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2004). Rettsstat og demokrati. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Mindy Jane Roseman (2013). ntroducción. ¿Pueden los litigios judiciales volver más justa la salud?. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Mindy Jane Roseman (2011). Introduction : can litigation bring justice to health?. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Catalina Vallejo Piedrahita (2020). The Climate Crisis: Litigation and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2006). Courts and Social Transformation: An Analytical Framework. (external link)
• Catalina Vallejo P.; Siri Gloppen (2022). The Quest for Butterfly Climate Adjudication. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2005). Sobre el derecho de resistencia en contextos de privaciones severas. Como deberia reaccionar el Estado?. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Fidelis Kanyongolo; Fiona Shen-Bayh et al. (2022). Malawi: Democratic Fits and Starts. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Ole Frithjof Norheim (2011). Litigating for medicines: how can we assess impact on health outcomes. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2004). The Accountability Function of the Courts in Tanzania and Zambia. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2013). La lucha por los derechos de la salud. Marco de análisis. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Mindy Jane Roseman (2011). Litigating the right to health : are transnational actors backseat driving?. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2011). Litigating health rights : framing the analysis. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Lise Rakner (2007). Introduction: Coming to grips with the current predicaments of political parties. (external link)
• Nicholas Orago; Siri Gloppen; Matthew Kiragu Gichohi (2022). Queer lawfare in Kenya: Shifting opportunities for rights realisation. (external link)
• Henriette Sinding Aasen; Siri Gloppen; Anne-Mette Magnussen et al. (2014). Juridification and social citizenship: international law, democracy and professional discretion. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Fidelis Edge Kanyongolo (2006). Malawi. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Lise Rakner (2020). LGBT Rights in Africa. (external link)
• Lise Rakner; Siri Gloppen (2003). Tax reform and democratic accountability in sub-Saharan Africa. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2004). Introduction: The Accountability Function of Courts in New Democracies. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2015). Studying Courts in Context: The Role of Nonjudicial Institutional and Socio-Political Realities. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2022). A View from Northern Europe. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Mindy Jane Roseman (2013). Litigación del derecho a la salud. ¿Son actores transnacionales los que mueven los hilos. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Emmanuel Kazimbazi; Alexander Kibandama (2008). Elections in Court: The Judiciary and Uganda's 2006 Election Process. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2008). Public Interest Litigation, Social Rights, and Social Policy. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2005). Roads to Reconciliation: A Conceptual Framework. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Fidelis Edge Kanyongolo (2012). Judicial Independence and Judicialisation of Electoral Politics in Malawi and Uganda. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2014). Courts, corruption and judical independence. (external link)
• Elisabeth Eide; Dag Elgesem; Siri Gloppen et al. (2014). Norske paradokser. (external link)
• Hege Stein Helland; Marit Skivenes; Siri Gloppen (2025). The European Court of Human Rights: an untapped source for advancing child rights?. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Thalia Gerzso; Nicolas van de Walle (2022). Legal Strategies: Constitutional, administrative, judicial, and discursive lawfare. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2003). Reparatory Justice - A Road to Reconcilition? On the role of Reparations in Transitional Justice Theory. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2003). Den opprinnelige posisjon. Prinsipper for forhandling om rettferdighet. (external link)
• Svein-Erik Hansen Helle; Siri Gloppen; Lise Rakner (2012). I pose og sekk? Klima i norsk utviklingspolitikk etter 2005. (external link)
• Lise Rakner; Siri Gloppen; Marja Hinfelaar (2022). Zimbabwe: Contested Autocratization. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2005). Introduction. (external link)
• Asuncion Lera St.Clair; Siri Gloppen (2013). Climate Change Lawfare. (external link)
• Jackie Dugard; Asuncion Lera St. Clair; Siri Gloppen (2013). Introduction. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Lise Rakner; Vegard Furustøl Vibe (2014). Stortingsklima. Klima som valgkamptema og norske politikeres syn på klimautfordringene. (external link)
• Vegard Furustøl Vibe; Siri Gloppen; Lise Rakner (2014). Klimabistand: god bistandspolitikk?. (external link)
• Octavio L. Motta Ferraz; Siri Gloppen; Ottar Mæstad et al. (2014). Judging the price of life: cons considerations in right-to-health litigation. (external link)

Master’s thesis

• Kjetil Ramsdal; Siri Gloppen (2006). Nigerian democratisation. A text analysis of Democracy Theory. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Ruben Berge Mathisen (2018). A Postmaterialist Explanation of Homophobia in Africa: Multilevel Analysis of Attitudes Towards Homosexuals in 33 African Countries. (external link)
• Liv Tønnessen; Siri Gloppen (2005). Islamism and Democracy - An inquriy into the Political Thought of the Sudanese Islamist Hassan al-Turabi. (external link)
• Mathilde Thorsen; Siri Gloppen (2018). Water & Power. (external link)
• Karoline H. Høibo; Siri Gloppen (2004). Inkludering av innvandrere i norske kommuner. En studie av statlig og kommunal diskurs om mål og middel. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Malin Moldestad (2016). Frå sinke til føregangsland på transpersonars rettar. (external link)
• Trine Lauvsnes; Siri Gloppen (2006). The judicial protection of tolerance in Chile and Argentina. Explaining freedom of expression jurisprudence 1990-2003. (external link)
• Anne Skjævestad; Siri Gloppen (2006). The Mapuche people´s battle for indigenous land: possibilities for litigating on indigenous land rights. (external link)
• Mathea Loen; Siri Gloppen (2020). Constitutionalising Rights to Water and Sanitation: International Norm Diffusion or Local Politics?. (external link)
• Anne-Lise Mjåtvedt; Siri Gloppen (2005). National Human Rights Institutions. A case-study of the National Human Rights Commission in Malaysia and a Comparative Country Survey of 79 States. (external link)

Conference lecture

• Siri Gloppen (2004). The role of the judiciary in the 2004 General Elections in Malawi. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2013). Can courts bring social justice? Rights based welfare policy in a comparative perspective - The Annual Azim Premji Public Lecture. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2013). Courting Elections in Hybrid Regimes. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2004). Social Rights Litigation as Transformation. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2013). Courting elections in hybrid regimes. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2018). Authoritarian Constitutionalism in Sub-Saharan Africa. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Jackie Dugard (2010). Empowering ligitation? Analysing empowerment-impact of internationalized social rights litigation in South Africa. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2018). Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2005). Public interest litigation, social rights and public policy. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2017). Dialoges in Constitutional Law: Sexual & Reproductive Rights Lawfare: Global battles. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2017). Judicialisation of the right to health: effects beyond health outcomes. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Siri Gloppen (2016). Criminalization of Abortion and Same Sex intimacy in Africa: Triggers and Health Effects. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Pilar Domingo (2020). Dialogue symposium: Women on the Bench. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2004). Socio-Economic Rights and Constitutionalism: Not by Litigation Alone?. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2004). "The Institutional Context of the 2004 General Elections in Malawi: The Role of the Courts". (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Octavio L. Motta Ferraz; Lise Rakner et al. (2013). ”Prioritization of healthcare: Comparative perspectives”. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Fiona Shen-Bayh; Vibeke Wang (2018). Malawi: Democratic Fits and Starts.. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Ingvild Aagedal Skage; Getnet Tadele Tefera et al. (2017). Political determinants of sexual & reproductive health (Globvac project). (external link)
• Ingvild Aagedal Skage; Lise Rakner; Carmeliza Soares Da Costa Rosario et al. (2017). Africa’s legalized politics of homosexuality: dynamics & effects of criminalization. (external link)
• Rachel Sieder; Siri Gloppen; Marta Machado et al. (2017). Roundtable. The Transnational and Sub-national Study of Abortion Lawfare. Law and Society Annual Meeting, Mexico, 20-23 June 2017. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Siri Gloppen (2016). Abortion Rights Lawfare: A Conceptual Framwork. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2002). The Accountability Function of the Courts in Tanzania. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2002). How to Assess the Political Role of the Zambian courts?. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2013). Data requred to evaluate impact of courts decisions on social transformation: the right to health /La información que se requiere para evaluar el impacto de las instituciones jurídicas en la transformación social. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2004). Courts and Social Transformation: an Analytical Framework. (external link)
• Bruce Wilson; Siri Gloppen (2018). Queer Lawfare: Global Battles. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2016). Human rights - entitlement to health: what does it mean in practice and how can it affect priority setting for UHC?. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2020). Autocratic Lawfare and Democratic Backsliding in Africa: Judicial Strategies for Repression and Courts as Arenas for Resistance. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Emmanuel Kasimbazi (2005). The Accountability Function of the Ugandan Courts: Framework for inquiry. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Fidelis Kanyongolo (2005). Law and Poverty in Malawi: Towards Progressive Linkages. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2003). The Politics of Social Rights Litigation. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2003). Analyzing the Role of Courts in Social Transformation: Social Rights Litigation, court responsiveness and capability. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2002). Accountability and the role of courts and institutions of restraint. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2022). Healing the World: Global Public Health Challenges and Perspectives. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2015). The Role of Law in the Pursuit of Sustainable Development. Keynote address at bars 2015. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2015). Bergen Exchanges on Law & Social Transformation. Various presentations during the week and main responsibility for the conference.. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2013). "Challenges in translating the right to health into practice - addressing or creating inequality?". (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2018). Identity and law - causes and effects of lawfare. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Kavita Navlani Søreide; Namita Wahi (2017). Conference on 'Land rights, Land Acquisition, and Inclusive Development in India'. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2017). Interview field work and observational methods in Constitutional Law. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2017). Researching Law and Social Transformation. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2017). The Right to Health and Maximum Available Resources. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2002). The Accountability Function of the Courts in Zambia. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2015). Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lafare. Global Battles.. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2008). Litigating the Right to Health. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Liv Tønnessen; Bruce Wilson et al. (2022). Queer Lawfare in Africa: Queer Identities as Political Currency in Autocratisation Processes and Courts as Sites of Resistance. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2022). Researching Autocratization and Resistance in Comparative ‎Perspective. (external link)
• Leonardo Arriola; Donghyun Danny Choi; Matthew Kiragu Gichohi et al. (2022). LGBT+ Tolerance: Assessing the Impact of Judicial Decisions and Social Campaigns in Africa. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2005). Public interest litigation, social rights and public policy. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2017). Abortion Rights Lawfare (Theoretical Framwork). (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2017). Constitutionalism 100 Years After the Mexican Constitution. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2017). Conceptualizing Lawfare. (external link)

Letter to the editor

• Anja Maria Steinsland Ariansen; Siri Gloppen; Lise Rakner et al. (2020). Time for global health diplomacy. (external link)
• John-Andrew McNeish; Lars Leer; Roy Gunnar Krøvel et al. (2013). Menneskerettighetene er udelelige. (external link)
• Camila Gianella; Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado; Siri Gloppen (2017). Political determinants of Sustainable Development Goals. (external link)

Popular science article

• Siri Gloppen (2003). Building the Rule of Law in New Democracies: Challenges and Opportunities for Judicial Reform. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2009). Sør-Afrikas sannhetskommisjon – et internasjonalt ideal?. (external link)

Media feature article

• Siri Gloppen; Camila Gianella; Alicia Ely Yamin (2013). Den globale abortstriden: Hvem får bestemme over kvinners kropp?. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2001). Global rettpleie - en vei til forsoning?. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2024). «Fosensaker» finnes verden over – men bedrer de urfolks rettigheter?. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2024). Zimbabwes sivilsamfunn kveles mens vi vender blikket bort. (external link)
• Kristine Bærøe; Siri Gloppen; Ole Frithjof Norheim (2021). For å få tillit til koronatiltakene, må myndighetene begrunne dem bedre. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2023). Vil grunnlovsdomstolen redde Ugandas skeive igjen?. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Kai Grieg (2002). Vest Sahara - Grunn til dårlig norsk samvittighet?. (external link)

Doctoral thesis (PhD)

• Satang Nabaneh; Siri Gloppen; Charles Ngwena (2020). Power Dynamics in The Provision of Legal Abortion: A Feminist Perspective on Nurses and Conscientious Objection in South Africa. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2001). South African constitutionalism, 1994-2000 : the difficult balancing act of the Constitutional Court. (external link)

Journal review

• Siri Gloppen (2004). Uferdig oppgjør. Om Jon Elsters "Oppgjøret med Fortiden Internasjonalt perspektiv på overgangen til demokrati" (Oslo: Pax 2004). (external link)

Research report

• Siri Gloppen (2005). Social rights litigation as transformation: South African perspectives. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (1994). Kortidsansettelser i elektrobransjen. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2004). Aid to judicial reform: Norwegian and international experiences. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen (2002). Reconciliation and Democratisation: Outlining the Research Field. (external link)

Editorial/Leader article

• Jackie Dugard; Asuncion St. Clair; Siri Gloppen (2013). Introduction : climate change justice : narratives, rights and the poor. (external link)
• Ole Frithjof Norheim; JM Abi-Rached; LK Bright et al. (2021). Difficult trade-offs in response to COVID-19: the case for open and inclusive decision making.. (external link)

Other presentation

• Hilmar Mjelde; Siri Gloppen; Gudrun Sylte (2025). Forskningskommunikasjonsdagene 2025. (external link)

Academic literature review

• Heather Eileen Menzies Munthe-Kaas; Andrew David Oxman; Bettina Von Lieres et al. (2024). Public participation in decisions about measures to manage the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review. (external link)
• Siri Gloppen; Rachel Sieder (2007). "Courts and the marginalized: Comparative perspectives". (external link)
• Valerie Percival; Oskar T Thoms; Ben Oppenheim et al. (2023). The Lancet Commission on peaceful societies through health equity and gender equality. (external link)

Non-fiction monograph

• Siri Gloppen; Abebe Zegeye (1997). South Africa: The Battle over the Constitution. (external link)

Popular science book chapter

• Ole Frithjof Norheim; Siri Gloppen (2013). La litigación en reclamo de medicamentos. ¿De qué modo es posible evaluar el impacto en los resultados de salud?,. (external link)

Non-fiction book chapter

• Siri Gloppen; Siri Gloppen (2016). Right to health in contexts of resource scarcity: towards judicial enforcement of the right to a fair share. (external link)

Academic monograph

• Siri Gloppen; Roberto Gargarella; Elin Skaar et al. (2010). Courts and power in Latin America and Africa. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Selected publications:

Articles and chapters:     

• "Public participation in decisions about measures to manage the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review." With Munthe-Kaas, Heather Menzies, et al. "BMJ Global Health 9.6 (2024): e014404.
• “Butterfly judging”. With C.Vallejo  in C.R. Garavito (ed) Litigating the Climate Crisis. Cambridge University Press.  (2023)
• “Legal Strategies: Constitutional, Administrative, Judicial and discursive Lawfare” with T. Gerzo and N. VandeWalle  in Arriola, et al Democratic Backsliding in Africa?  Oxford University Press (2023)  (open access:https://academic.oup.com/book/45327)
• “Malawi: Democratic fits and starts” With F. Kanyongolo et al. in Arriola et al. Democratic Backsliding in Africa?  Oxford University Press (2023) (open access:https://academic.oup.com/book/45327)
• "The Lancet Commission on peaceful societies through health equity and gender equality." With Percival, Valerie, et al.The Lancet 402.10413 (2023): 1661-1722.
• “Zimbabwe: Contested Autocratization” with S., M. Hinfelaar et al. in Arriola et al. Democratic Backsliding in Africa?  Oxford University Press. (2022)  (open access:https://academic.oup.com/book/45327)
• Queer Lawfare in Africa Legal strategies in contexts of LGBTIQ+ criminalisation and politicization. Co-edited with Jjuuko.al Three co-authored chapters. PULP press (2022)  (open acess)
• «A View from Norther Europe” in The Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Latin America (2022) Oxford University Press.
• Gloppen, S. (2021) "Conceptualizing Abortion Lawfare." Revista Direito GV 17 (2021).
• "Difficult trade-offs in response to COVID-19: the case for open and inclusive decision making". with Norheim, O. F., … Gloppen, S., & Voorhoeve, A. (2021). in Nature Medicine, 1-4
• "Constitutionalising the Right to Water in Kenya and Slovenia": with M. Loen in Water, 13(24)(2021), 3548.
• “The Climate Crisis: Litigation and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”. With Catalina Vallejo. in Dugard et.al. (eds) Research Handbook on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Human Rights. Edward Elgar Publishing, (2020).
• “LGBT rights in Africa” With Lise Rakner. Chapter 15 in Ashford, C., & Maine, Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality, and the Law. Edward Elgar, (2020)
• “Political determinants of sustainable development goals.” With Camila Gianella and Marta Machado, The Lancet 390.10112 (2017): 2545-2546.
• “Studying Courts in Context” in LD Haglund & R Stryker, (eds) Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights: Emerging Possibilities for Social Transformation. University of California Press (2015)
• “Grabbing development: Courts, corruption and judicial independence” In T. Søreide & A. Williams (eds) Corruption, Grabbing and Development: Real World Challenges. E. Elgar Publ. (2014)
• “Red-Green Lawfare: Climate Justice Discourse in Courtrooms” with Catalina Vallejo, in (J. Dugard et al eds) Climate Talk: Rights, Poverty & Justice (Juta, 2014)
• “Judging the price of life: cost considerations in right-to-health litigation” with Octavio Ferraz, Ottar Mæstad, and Lise Rakner, in H. Aasen et al. (Eds.). (2014). Juridification and social citizenship in the welfare state. Edward Elgar Publishing (2014).
• “Human Rights Based Approaches to Development: Concepts, Evidence, and Policy”, with Varun Gauri, Polity, 44(4): pp 485–50 (2012)
• “Climate Change Lawfare” with Asun St Clair, Social Inquiry. 79(4), 2012, pp 899-930)
• “Judicial independence and judicialization of electoral politics in Malawi and Uganda”. With Fidelis Edge Kanyongolo In D Chirwa & L. Nijzink,  Accountable Government in Africa: Perspectives from Public Law and Political Science. University of Cape Town Press/UN University Press (2012)

Books:

• Juridification & Social Citizenship. Ed. with Henriette Aasen, Anne M Magnussen & Even Nilssen (E. Elgar, 2014)
• Klima, medier og politikk. With Elisabeth Eide, Dag Elgesem, Lise Rakner, L. (Eds.). (2014). Abstrakt forlag AS.
• Climate Talk: Rights, Poverty & Justice. With Jackie Dugard & Asun L. St.Clair (Eds) (Juta, 2013)
• Litigating Health Rights: Can Courts Bring Justice to Health. With Alicia E Yamin (Eds) HLS Human Rights Programme Series with Harvard University Press (2011). Spanish Translation published by Siglo XXI (Argentina) in March 2013
• Courts and Power in Latin America and Africa. Co-authored with Bruce Wilson, Roberto Gargarella, Elin Skaar Palgrave McMillan (2010)
• Globalization and Democratization: Challenges for Political Parties. Ed. with L. Rakner. Fagbokforlaget (2007).
• Roads to Reconciliation. Ed. with E. Skaar and A. Suhrke. Lexington Books (2005)
• Democratization  and the Judiciary. Ed. with R. Gargarella and E. Skaar) London: Frank Cass (2004)
• South Africa: Battle over the Constitution. Ashgate (1997)

- Director - Centre on Law & Social Transformation (UiB - CMI 2014-) 

- PI - Political determinants of sexual and reproductive health: Criminalization, health impacts and game changers (UiB - CMI 2016-2021)

- PI - LawTransform: Effects of Rights & Law (UiB - 2017-2022)

- PI - Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare: Global Battles (UiB - CMI 2014-2018)

- Research coordinator 2013-2015 - PluriCourts - Centre for the Study of the Legitimacy of the Global Judiciary (University of Oslo, Faculty of Law - Centre of Excellence, 2013-)

- Team member - Abortion Lawfare in Latin America (UiB - CMI 2014-2017)

- PI - Land Rights and Inclusive Sustainable Development in India (UiB - CMI 2013-2016)

- PI - Institutionalizing the Right to Health in Health Service Delivery (Norad/CMI/World Bank 2014-2016)

- Team member - Climate Change Discourse, Rights and the Poor (UiB - CMI 2010-2012)

- PI - The right to health through litigation? Can court enforced health rights improve health policy and priority-setting in poor countries? (Co-operation between CMI, Faculty of Medicine, UiB, Harvard University, researchers in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, South Africa, India, Bangladesh - 2008-2012)