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Siri Gloppen

Gloppen is Associate Professor in Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, Norway and heads the “Courts in Transition” research programme at the Chr. Michelsen Institute. Her research at the Human Rights Program centered around the political role of African courts in democratization and social transformation; social rights litigation; reconciliation, constitution-making and constitutionalism. Gloppen’s publications include Democratization and the Judiciary (Frank Cass 2004), Roads to Reconciliation (Lexington 2005), and South Africa: The Battle over the Constitution (Ashgate 1997).