News archive for Faculty of Law

“The fact that we have just five years left to reach the Sustainable Development Goals should give us reason to pause — can we not do better?” asks Professor Birgit Kopainsky, who will lead Bergen Summer Research School 2025.

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.

Professor Anna Nylund has recently published the book Shaping Civil Litigation Using Procedural Agreements. The book was published by Eleven Publishing, and has been edited in collaboration with Antonio Cabral.

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

"Even though the rules are different, the Nordic perspective gives value because we have so many cultural roots in common, says the Faculty of Law's new Honorary Doctorate, Mads Bryde Andersen. The professor at the University of Copenhagen is an active promoter of keeping the Nordic legal tradition alive.

In collaboration with the Department of Comparative Politics, the research group invited experts on offshore wind energy from the UK, Denmark, Latvia, Poland, and Norway to participate in a interdisciplinary conference.

The research group hosts a hybrid lunch seminar on Friday 12th of April at 12:15-14:00.