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The Private Law Consortium is a collaboration between scholars at six law schools – Bar Ilan, Harvard, McGill, Trento, University of Pennsylvania and University of Oslo.

Professor Morag Goodwin, Tilburg University, will give a guest lecture on global Law.

Cand. jur Eivind Furuseth will be defending the thesis: The relationship between domestic anti-avoidance rules and tax treaties for the degree of Ph.D.

The disputation will be held in Norwegian

In 2015, Daughters of Themis organised its first and highly successful workshop in Greece. In 2016, a lovely guesthouse on the island of Kea in Greece was selected as the venue, with the workshop proceedings held from Monday 30 May through Friday 3 June and with social events on Saturday 4 June, before closing of the workshop and return back home on Sunday 5 June. Also the 2016 workshop was a great success, as this report illustrates.

Papers from the 2016 workshop will be included in an edited volume, with Beate Sjåfjell and Irene Lynch-Fannon as editors.

Papers from the 2015 workshop are forthcoming in a special issue of the International and Comparative Corporate Journal, edited by Beate Sjåfjell and Roseanne Russell.  

The research groups in Natural Resources Law and Companies, Markets, Society and the Environment have the pleasure of inviting to a seminar on circular economy, with discussion after the presentations.

Three books by Eirik Bjørge, Mads Andenæs and Duncan Fairgrieve will be presented in the Old Library, All Souls College, Oxford, with a drinks reception in the Harold Wilson Room, Jesus College, Oxford.

Organized jointly with the Institute of Private Law, the Faculty of Law, the University of Oslo.

Professor Fabio Perin Shecaira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, will give a lecture.

Cand. philol Dagfinn Chr. Selvaag will be defending the thesis Recognition of States and Governments in International Law – With Particular Reference to Norwegian State Practice for the degree of dr. Philos.

Original title: Anerkjennelse av stater og regjeringer i folkeretten – Med særlig vekt på norsk anerkjennelsespraksis,

The disputation will be held in Norwegian

Professor Stuart P. Green from Rutger's School of Law will give a guest lecture on the topic of sexual offences. 

UNIDROIT - Principles of International Commercial Contracts Issues relating to long term contracts

By invitation only.

Cand. jur. Morten Holmboe at the Department of Public and International Law will be defending the thesis Prison or not: On the theory and practice of meting out punishment for the degree of Ph.D.

The disputation will be held in Norwegian.

Mitigating and preventing environmental damages from products must be a priority for environmental policy. This conference brings together scholars from both legal and economic science to discuss this difficult topic and attempt to build bridges between two disciplines that sometimes struggle to find common grounds.

Cand. jur Thomas Horn will be defending the thesis: Solitary Confinement and Risk of Collusion – considerations of Legal policy for the degree of Ph.D.

Original title: Fullstendig isolasjon ved risiko for bevisforspillelse – rettspolitiske vurderinger

The disputation will be held in Norwegian

Cand. jur Tone Linn Wærstad will be defending the thesis: Protecting Muslim Minority Women’s Human Rights at Divorce: Application of the Protection against Discrimination Guarantee in Norwegian Domestic Law, Private International Law and Human Rights Law for the degree of Ph.D.

Cand.jur Ragnar Nordeide will be defending the thesis “The Interaction between the European convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and other International Law. What role for a purposive conception of the ECHR?” for the degree of Ph.D.  

Department of Private Law's seminar series / Company Law Forum

Inaugural lecture by Jukka Mähönen, Department of Private Law

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

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

Cand. jur. Irina Eidsvold Tøien at the Department of Private Law will be defending the thesis "Creative, Performing artists" for the degree of Ph.D.

Original title: Skapende, utøvende kunstnere - vurdering av beskyttelsen av utøvende kunstneres prestasjoner etter norsk rett.

The disputation will be held in Norwegian

Presentation by Dr. Kernaghan Webb,  Associate Professor of Law and Business in Ryerson University’s Ted Rogers School of Management.

Master in Criminology Kjersti Lohne at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law will be defending the thesis Advocates of Humanity: Human Rights NGOs and the International Criminal Court for the degree of Ph.D.

Lecture given by Dr Stelios Andreadakis, School of Law, University of Leicester.

Moses Deyegbe Kuvoame at the departement of Criminology and Sociology of Law, will be defending the thesis "In Search of Care: How marginalised street-involved Black and minority ethnic youths tackle the psychoaffective injuries of multiple and prolonged marginality in a White workfare state" for the degree of Ph.D.

Doctoral candidate Moses Deyegbe Kuvoame at Department of criminology and sociology of law will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Why do feelings matter in criminology?

Calling all early-career attendees of ESIL-2015 in Oslo! You are invited to a junior and senior scholar/practitioner mixer. Registration for the event is now closed.

The Department of Public and International Law and the Georgian-Norwegian Rule of Law Association invite to a seminar on Georgian and Norwegian law. Main presenters are doctoral researchers Giorgi Giorgadze and Teimuraz Antelava.