Faculty of Law

Succession Law: Challenges and Potential regarding regulating the Transfer of Property on Death in changing Society

Prosjektet er is about the interplay between societal developement and hairship.

Criminal Law Theory - A New Norwegian Approach

Criminal Law Theory – A New Norwegian Approach is an attempt to move the Norwegian criminal law and criminal law science forwards in a more theoretical direction than what has been the traditional approach.

Juridification and social citizenship

Researchproject funded by The Research Council of Norway as a part of the VAM-programme (Welfare, Working Life and Migration). The project is coordinated by The Faculty of Law, UiB, in cooperation with CMI Christian Michelsen Institute, UNI Research Rokkan Centre, The Bergen University College and...

Legal frameworks for Conservation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the Himalayas

Maintenance of biodiversity and other ecosystems services essential for human well-being requires an effective legal framework to prevent over-exploitation and give incentive for protection of biodiversity.

The functionality of the criminal justice system

Towards more stability, competitiveness and predictability in the financial sector – the relevance of EU/EEA State aid rules and their correct application

In Autumn 2008, the financial crisis hit Europe. In order to prevent the systemic crisis, the EU/EEA Member States granted huge amounts of state aid to banks that were "too big to fail". This was approved by the European Commission and the EFTA Surveillance Authority that are responsible for State...

Regulating Energy Markets, a Perspective from EU/EEA Competition and Public Procurement Law

Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui is a researcher at the Faculty of Law. He has received grants from AkademiaAvtalen to do his research on the European energy marked.

Police and Prosecution Law

Police and Prosecution Law is a five-year project that is funded by Trond Mohn Foundation, the Faculty of Law (UiB) and the National Police Directorate.

EEA Financial Supervision – Norway's affiliation to the European System for Financial Supervision

This three year long project is funded by the Financial Market Fund and led by Professor Halvard Haukeland Fredriksen. The project seeks to map and assess strengths and weaknesses with Norway’s legal affiliation to the European System of Financial Supervision from different perspectives.

Between rechtssicherheit and efficiency. New strategies against organized economic crime

An important research task in this project is to identify and analyse principles and rules which should be applicable in the case of non-public investigations of economic crime. The research project is lead by Jon Petter Rui, adjunct professor at the Faculty of Law.

GOVLAND - Legal governance in land use planning

Striking a balance between national and municipal power and between private initiative and public control.

Island Lives, Ocean States

Island Lives, Ocean States (OceanStates) is a research project about the Pacific Islands, climate change and the politics of the ocean. The OceanStates project aims to build new and urgent interdisciplinary analysis of one of the greatest challenges of our time: how Pacific islanders and their...

WAIT

The WAIT project uses theories of temporality and the concept of 'waitinghood' as tools for producing new and critical insights into the cultural conditions and implications of migration.

Completed Research Projects