The Student Inclusion Award helps to highlight initiatives within the faculty that promote diversity, inclusion, and non-discrimination. This year, the Law Students' Fosen Initiative received the award.
Every year, The Law Student Committee (JSU) awards "Undersvisningsprisen" to an accomplished educator at the faculty. The deserving recipient for 2023 was Associate Professor Stian Øby Johansen.
Master student, Rameen Najam Sheikh, was awarded the Prize for the best master's thesis on equality, inclusion and/or diversity. Four talented master students were nominated at the faculty for this award.
The University of Oslo has received funding from the Research Council of Norway to identify and understand scenarios for a less connected future where nation-states increasingly protect their borders and fight international institutions and their legal standards.
– This will support and strengthen socio-legal research in Norway, according to principal investigators Kristin Bergtora Sandvik and Peter Scharff Smith.
The Electoral Board announced this week the new Deanery for the period 2024-2027.
In 2023, PluriCourts Centre of Excellence will close its doors after ten busy and rewarding years studying the legitimacy of international courts and tribunals. However, PluriCourts’ research contributions will live on and several of its initiatives will be continued at the Faculty of Law as legacy activities.
PluriCourts' Concluding Conference marked the end of its ten-years tenure, but its legacy and research will live on.
The Faculty of Law invites supervisors and examiners at the Faculty to nominate the best master’s thesis on the topic of racial discrimination.
Professor Dr. Christina Voigt dedicates her life and career to environmental law. This fall, she is organizing a high-level international conference on the transformative power of law.
Cecilia Bailliet’s lecture "Women Refugees and Gender Persecution" have been included in the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law. The Lecture series seeks to collect lectures of enduring value from leading international scholars on a wide array of subjects within International Law.
The Faculty of Law strongly condemns the Russian invasion and war in Ukraine.
Professor Cecilia M. Bailliet has been chosen to Chair the Expert Advisory Group to the UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity Obiora Okafor.
The project will study what the EU can do to prevent the deterioration of rule of law among its members, a question that project leader Daniel Naurin argues has only become more important.
Voigt will be the chair of the Commission for the next four years. She intends to harness its international role and its global reach.
Diabetes, organ donation, consciousness, the immune system, evidence in rape cases, mental illnesses, medicinal plants and cancer. These are societal challenges that will be examined in interdisciplinary life science research groups at the University of Oslo.
