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When the Norwegian Constitution was adopted in 1814 it represented a dramatic break from the absolute monarchy and aristocratic privilege of the past.
It was with great sadness that the Faculty of Law received the news of the passing away of Jan Erik Hatling on Thursday 10 October.
One semester as an exchange student in Uppsala, Sweden, resulted in fifth year UiB student Maria Husebye going to Brussels to take part in an international moot court competition. «I've learned a great deal», she says.
Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg is one of those lucky people who have lived to see the career path she chose in her youth, growing ever more relevant and interesting with time. On January 25th she received her honorary doctorate at the UiB.
– When you return to your country, you will be a new person. Studying abroad changes you, Professor Sunde tells the new international students at the Faculty of Law.
Law students from the University of Bergen may now study at some of the best law faculties in China!
- We were given an especially warm welcome in Russia, and there is an interest in extended cooperation between the two countries, says the dean Asbjørn Strandbakken.
Every third student that graduated from the Faculty of Law in 2009 had studied abroad for a while. This is an increase of more than 450 percent since 2002 and the trend looks set to continue in 2010.
It was necessary for law professor Ernst Nordtveit to step in and hold the opening lecture at the biodiversity conference in Kathmandu in Nepal, at very short notice.
- Norway is quite exotic to us Southern Europeans, says Pedro Leal (25), one of the newly arrived exchange students at the faculty.
Law is culture because it's also a question about conceptions and expectations.
At the Faculty of Law we will again host an International Day. The aim is to give our students as much information and inspiration as possible about exchange possibilities.

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