Tom Saater
Rights and Legal Institutions
We research law as an instrument of social change.
Current projects
Jun 2021 - Aug 2025
Truth Commissions and Sexual Violence: African and Latin American Experiences
Jun 2020 - Jun 2025
PluriLand: Theorizing Conflict and Contestation in Plural Land Rights Regimes
Completed projects
Jan 2021 - Dec 2024
Cabo Delgado: Conflict, Resilience and Reconstruction
Jan 2020 - Dec 2023
Expectations, Truth and Reconciliation in a Democratic Welfare State (TRUCOM)
Jan 2017 - Dec 2022
Women on the Bench: The Role of Female Judges in Fragile States
May 2014 - Jan 2020
Sexual and Reproductive Rights Lawfare: Global battles
Jan 2011 - Jan 2020
Juridification and Social Citizenship
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
UiO-NCHR Mid-term review of international department ]
Oct 2014 - Dec 2017
Beyond Words: Latin American Truth Commissions' Recommendations
Jul 2014 - Jun 2017
Abortion Rights Lawfare in Latin America
Dec 2013 - Jun 2016
Operationalizing a Rights-Based Approach to Health Service Delivery
Jan 2014 - Dec 2015
Violence against women and criminal justice in Afghanistan
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Mid-term review of two human rights organisations in Tanzania
Sep 2010 - Dec 2014
Reconceptualising Transitional Justice: The Latin American Experience
Oct 2014 - Nov 2014
Evaluation of project on prison conditions in Malawi
Apr 2011 - Oct 2014
Caught between rape and adultery in Sudan
Dec 2009 - Dec 2012
Women and law in Latin America: Justice, Security and Legal Pluralism
Jan 2009 - Dec 2012
The Role of the EU in UN Human Rights Reform (COST Action IS 0702)
Jan 2010 - Jan 2012
Climate Change Discourse, Rights, and the Poor
Jan 2008 - Jan 2012
Litigating the Right to Health
Apr 2011 - Dec 2011
Gender based violence in conflict-torn Sudan
Jan 2009 - Dec 2011
Poverty Reduction and Gender Justice in Contexts of Complex Legal Pluralism
Jan 2010 - Dec 2010
Forced Migrants, Human Rights and Lasting Peace
Feb 2010 - Dec 2010
Joint Evaluation of Norwegian and Swedish Aid in Support of Child Rights
Jun 2009 - Dec 2009
Electoral Mismanagement and Post-Election Violence in Kenya
Apr 2008 - Sep 2008
Human Rights Programme: 25-year anniversary symposium
Jan 2002 - Dec 2003
Democratization and the Judiciary
Law as a driver for social change
We research law as an instrument of social change.
Our focus is on mobilization for human rights and access to justice for poor and marginalized groups.
We are at the forefront of research on how law and legal institutions work, and the strategic use of law as a political tool (lawfare).
As a key partner in the Centre on Law and Social Transformation, we are developing new and better methods for assessing effects of lawfare.
Our research and evaluation expertise:
- Transitional justice and legal empowerment
- Legal institutions, including female judgeship
- Migration and refugee law
- Natural resources and climate lawfare
- Islamic law
- Gender, sexuality and the law
- Social and economic rights: health, welfare, employment and labour