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What are the current trends when it comes to assisting and protecting refugees and asylum-seekers in Europe and in the Middle East? How do political decisions regarding refugees taken in one region affect assistance and protection in other regions?
PhD candidate Worku Gedefa Urgessa at the Department of Private Law will present his PhD project: "The Role of Intergovernmental Organisations (IGOs) in Ensuring Internet Security ".
PhD candidate Luca Tosoni at the Department of Private Law will present his PhD project: "Data Crimes: Regulating and Enforcing Cybersecurity through Criminal Law".
The NCHR's yearly Intensive Course in International Human Rights will be arranged in September 2019.
Master of Laws Linn Cecilie Anker-Sørensen at Department of Private Law will be defending the thesis The Multifaceted Corporate Group. Testing EU’s response to hidden control structures for the degree of Ph.D.
PhD candidate Ingrid Birgitte Lund at the Department of Public and International Law is presenting her doctoral project "Anti-Hybrid Rules and Tax Avoidance: To What Extent Can Multinational Corporations Reduce Tax Liability Through Hybrid Structures?"
Welcome by Mads Andenæs and Birgitte Hagland.
Key note speaker: Professor Jan Dalhuisen.
Panel: Anne Botne (Head of Legal, Neptune Energy), Stephan Jervell, Wiersholm and Thomas K. Svensen, BAHR.
Chair: Amund B. Tørum, Schjødt.
LL.M Kevin McGillivray at the Department of Private Law will be defending the thesis Government Cloud Procurement: Contracts, Data Protection, and the Quest for Compliance for the degree of Ph.D.
LLM/MPA Margrét Vala Kristjánsdóttir will be defending the thesis Administrative Law and Service Contracts -Adding Colour to the Grey - for the degree of Ph.D.
The seminar will be a roundtable discussion subsequent to introductions by Eleonore Maitre-Ekern and Hanna Ahlström (tbc).
Please register here before June 18th, as there will be a light lunch.
Nils Butenschøn retires from his position as Professor at the NCHR on first of July this year. The seminar is organised around central topics in Butenschøn’s academic works over the past 45 years: Nationality conflicts, models of power sharing in deeply divided societies, and the study of citizenship and human rights as a basis for legitimate state authority. Empirically, most of the works, including the five books Butenschøn has published in the last decade, have focused on the Middle East and the region’s modern political history.
Cand. polit Lisbeth Fullu Skyberg will be defending the thesis Testimony and evaluations of credibility for the degree of Ph.D.
Original title: Rettslige forklaringers troverdighet. En teoretisk, historisk og empirisk undersøkelse av bevismuntlighetens betydning for vurdering av troverdighet i straffesaker.
The disputation will be held in Norwegian
Cand. jur. Katrine Kjærheim Fredwall will be defending the thesis An analyze of the Correction Mechanisms of Family Property law for the degree of Ph.D.
Original title: Familieformuerettens korreksjonsmekanismer
The disputation will be held in Norwegian.
The theme of the fifth international workshop of Daughters of Themis: International Network of Female Business Scholars, is ‘Finance for Sustainability’. The aim of the annual workshop is to provide a forum for open, intimate and inspiring discussions about female business scholars’ common areas of interest. Workshop participants have been selected based on a highly competitive call for papers.
This Conference aims at gathering leading scholars and young researchers to discuss an important topic for international law and governance, which has gained increased attention in the last decades.
Speakers: Prof. Dr. Enver Hasani, Professor of International Law, First President of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo and Prof. Dr. Haxhi Gashi, Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Prishtina.
We are pleased to welcome to the 4th annual European Copyright Society Conference in Oslo.
In March 2019 was the first election in Thailand since the military coup in 2014: What is the situation for those organizing to defend the human rights? Will the human rights crisis prevail, or will the situation get better?
The Faculty of Law invites to the official launch of the first “Toppforsk-project” at the faculty, Judges under Stress JuS - the Breaking Point of Judicial Institutions.
Last year the ILC completed its six-year study on the identification of CIL, which sought to provide guidance on how the existence and content of rules of CIL are to be determined. It may already be said that at least part of the reason for which the Commission saw it necessary to take on the topic was the confusion sown by some working in the field of human rights, who sought to reframe custom as a source of international law as part of a conscious effort to make customary law-making an instrument to resolve urgent issues in international law where treaty law making was seen to fail.
Professor Stefan Grundmann is one of the leading researchers in European private law. He has been a professor at the European University of Florence and is now back at the Humboldt University in Berlin.
Introduction by Professor Christina Voigt
We welcome all to this lunch seminar regarding the legal processes between the Western Sahara liberation movement POLISARIO and the EU.
Please register before March 24th
Speaker is Manuel Devers, the legal counsel of the POLISARIO Front before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
Cand. jur Anne Kjersti Befring will be defending the thesis Genetic mapping as a basis for personalised medicine. Integrity and autonomy perspectives for the degree of Ph.D.
The disputation will be held in Norwegian.
What do we do when the people who stand up to ensure sustainable development in their local communities are threatened, attacked and even killed? This is a breakfast seminar on bridging the gap between policy and reality in the defense of land and environmental rights.