PhD and Postdoc-projects

«Children as victims of sexual relations»

Siri Elisabeth Bernssen's PhD project has as its overarching theme «Children as victims in sexual relations». The project has a legal historical angle, and how the problem has changed in practice of criminal law rules on sexual abuse of minors in Norwegian criminal law from the 19th century until today.

Constitutional barriers to the conduct of police activities - with emphasis on human rights and the principle of legality

John Reidar Nilsen's main purpose is to clarify whether the legal regulation of the police's competence to intervene in the exercise of police authority is in accordance with the legal barriers that can be deduced from the Constitution's human rights provisions in general, and the principle of legality in particular.

How should we understand danger?

Martin Mindestrømmen's PhD project aims to clarify the legal content of the concept of danger in the context of special criminal reactions against insane offenders. The dissertation's overarching research question is how we should understand danger. It is assumed that an answer to this also requires new knowledge about how danger has been understood.

Probation for remand prisoners

Marte Habberstad Mo discusses the legal construction of probation for remand prisoners in Norwegian law. It is discussed both how the probation institute is constructed and how it should be constructed.

"Lawyers' duty of confidentiality and the right to confidential legal assistance" 

Johannes Mella is a research fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen. His research regards the right to confidential legal assistance and lawyers' duty of confidentiality.

2020: Øyvind Holst - «The limitations of social protection», Katrine Rong Holter - «Intent: A study of intent and surrounding concepts in criminal law»

2019: Ingvild Rosseland Sandhaug - «The combating of corruption in enterprises», Eva Marie Vestergaard Møller - «A framework for criminalization. Debating the aims of punishment and the behavioural model of the criminal law»

2018: Ingun Fornes - «The juvenile justice system: prison and it’s alternatives»

2015: Ragnar L. Auglend - «The policial duty to act, commando authority and the duty to subordinate in operative and intervening efforts.»

2014: Steinar Fredriksen - «Law, order and liberty: an account of police authority to intervene in personal autonomy during patrol service.»

2012: Gert Johan Kjelby - «Between a right and an obligation to prosecute: the legal development and legal frameworks of the principle of discretionary prosecution in Norwegial criminal procedure.»

2011: Annika E. Suominen - «The principle of mutual recognition in cooperation in criminal matters: a study of the principle in four framework decisions and in the implementation legislation in the Nordic member states»

2010: Ørnulf Øyen - «The protection against Self-Incrimination in criminal proceedings.», Knut Høivik - «Criminal liability of companies: an analysis of the construction of criminal liability in The Penal Code Section 48a and its preconditions.»

Society's reactions and measures towards children who commit crimes

Ingun Fornes is involved in the project "Society's reactions and measures towards children who commit crimes". The theme of the project ae society's reactions and measures towards children who commit crime. This topic is at the interface between criminal justice, child welfare and mental health care. This project is also discussed with research group for family, children, inheritance and personal law.

Tina Søreide - «Theory in Practice: Risks and Responses in Modern Criminal Law».

Annika Suominen - «The Nordic Approach in European Criminal Law – Four case studies on how EU criminal law influences and impact the criminal laws of the Nordic states»

Johan Boucht - «Extended confiscation as a criminal las phenomenon – increased functionality or an unjustified deviation from traditional principles?»

Ingun Fornes - «Criminal justice, child welfare, psychiatry»