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At this lunch seminar Dr. Jay Cullen, University of Sheffield, will give a lecture on "Securitisation, Ring-Fencing and Housing Bubbles: Financial Stability Implications of UK and EU Bank Reforms".

Cand. jur, LL.M Michael Reiertsen at the Department of Public and International Law will defend his thesis The European Convention on Human Rights Article 13 - Past, Present and Future for the degree of Ph.D.

Master of Laws Eivind Junker at the Department of Public and International Law will be defending the thesis Climate adaptation in land use planning for the degree of Ph.D.

Original title: Klimatilpasning i arealplanlegging

The disputation will be held in Norwegian

PhD candidate Linn Cecilie Anker-Sørensen at the Department of Private Law will on Thursday 16 March present her doctorate Project: "Control decoupling – implications for understanding modern corporate groups."

The deregulation of the financial markets in the 1980s and 1990s have challenged many of our perceptions about the interconnectedness of investments, corporate control and the influence of the relevant market actors. This conference address one of the key questions that has sprung out from the deregulation, namely how we can ensure financial transparency, delimit systemic risks and foster efficient regulation.

Master of Laws Blazej Kuzniacki at the Department of Public and International Law will be defending the thesis "Controlled Foreign Companies and Tax Avoidance: International and Comparative Perspectives with Specific Reference to Polish Tax and Constitutional Law, EU Law and Tax Treaties” for the degree of Ph.D.

PhD candidate Johann Ruben Leiss at the Department of Private Law will on Friday 9 December present his doctorate Project: "On the Construction of a Global Judicial System".

The expansion of international law and the accompanying 'proliferation' of international courts and tribunals raises questions on the application of coordinating principles between judicial institutions. This seminar will address the application and systemic relevance of jurisdictional and admissibility devices - such as res judicata, lis pendens and forum non-convenience - and principles of subsidiarity as means for the coordination of the 'global judicial system'.

This seminar brings together leading international and Nordic scholars to discuss current topics with a focus on methodology and current issues in  light of different approaches by lawyers, political scientists and sociologists.

Yong Zhou at Norwegian Centre for Human Rights will be defending the thesis: Free Prior Informed Consent (FPIC) and Hydropower Development: Institutional Constraints on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights in the Party-State China for the degree of Ph.D.

– The Case Lilly v. Canada, on the Cumbersome Interface Between Trade, Intellectual Property and Human Rights

Presentation by Professor Daniel J. Gervais, Vanderbilt University.

Presentations by Professor Peukert, Goethe-Universitãt Frankfurt am Main, and Professor Rognstad, University of Oslo.

Azin Tadjdini at Department of Public and International Law will be defending the thesis: Constitutional De-Secularization and Limitations in Equality of Liberty for the degree of Ph.D.

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Presentation by Professor Pascal Ancel, University of Luxembourg. Comments by Professor Kåre Lilleholt, University of Oslo.

This is a lecture in the Department of Private Law's revitalized seminar series.

The seminar is open for all interested and will count as obligatory post-qualifying education (obligatorisk etterutdanning) for lawyers.

Cand. jur Kurt Weltzien at the Department of Private Law will be defending the thesis Boycott as a tool in industrial action for the degree of Ph.D.

Original title: Boikott i arbeidskampsammenheng

The disputation will be held in Norwegian

Professor Sabino Cassese will give a lecture on the topic Public Law in Crisis.

Presentation by Roger Clarke.

Roger Clarke is an independent consultant in the strategic and policy implications of advanced information technologies, with a particular focus on eBusiness, information infrastructure, and dataveillance and privacy. He is a Visiting Professor in Computer Science at the Australian National University (ANU), and a Visiting Professor in Law at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He has also held Visiting Professorships at the University of Hong Kong (2002-07), the University of Bern, and the University of Linz.

Monika Lindbekk at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law will be defending the thesis Inscribing Islamic shari‘a in Egyptian marriage and divorce law: continuity and rupture for the degree of Ph.D.

Master of Laws Marte Eidsand Kjørven at the Department of Private Law will be defending the thesis (Mis) selling of investment products to consumers – duties and responsibility for the degree of Ph.D.

Original title: Ytelse av investeringstjenester til forbruker: Verdipapirrettslige, kontraktsrettslige og erstatningsrettslige krav til atferd

The disputation will be held in Norwegian

PhD candidate Kevin McGillivray at the Department of Private Law will on Wednesday 17 August present his doctorate Project: "Compliance by Contract: the rise of governmental cloud procurement mechanisms and their impact on privacy and security in Cloud Computing".

The conference will present and discuss some preliminary results from the project Sustainable tax governance in developing countries through global tax transparency - DeSTaT

Master of Laws Olga Mironenko Enerstvedt will be defending the thesis Aviation security and protection of individuals: Technologies and legal principles for the degree of Ph.D.

The disputation will be held in English

The seminar at the Faculty of Law addresses the Death penalty in international Law, and the question of whether there is an emerging jus cogens prohibition.