News archive for Faculty of Law

Professor Linda Gröning at UiB is among the leading researchers in questions related to criminal responsibility and criminal insanity. She is concerned about discrimination and injustice in the legal system if it does not rely on updated knowledge about mental illness - and finds it urgent to clarify how mental illness is relevant to criminal responsibility.

Professor Sören Koch has published an article about the Norwegian regulation of assisted dying in light of national and international developments.

Anna Nylund has recently published the book Shaping Civil Litigation Using Procedural Agreements on Eleven Publishing in collaboration with Antonio Cabral (Rio de Janeiro State University). 

Last Friday, April 12th, the Research Group on Climate, Energy, and Environmental Law hosted an engaging seminar.

On the 15th to 16th February 2024, professors Anna Nylund, Magne Strandberg and Camilla Bernt traveled to Leiden University to participate in a seminar organized by Professor Bart Krans.

Governments and oil and gas companies aim to electrify oil and gas production on the continental shelf as quickly as possible to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Three members of the research group have recently written articles addressing the issues raised by this framework.

On February 22nd, the research group organized a seminar on decommissioning of ships.

Professor Terje Einarsen is the editor of the newly published commentary on the UN Refugee Convention.