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Beate Sjåfjell and Jukka Mähönen will present their paper Interdisciplinarising Legal Theory: Towards a Reconceptualisation of Business Law.

Open for all interested.

Elisabeth Myhre Lie will be defending the thesis "The Different Police. Ideals and dilemmas in the preventative dialogue-based efforts of the Norwegian Police" for the degree of PhD.

Original title: "Annerledespolitiet. Idealer og dilemmaer i politiets forebyggende dialogarbeid"

The Climate Law Group have invited “insiders” to share with us their views on the process and outcome of COP27. This seminar invites to reflections and discussion about COP27, the purpose and necessity of these “mega-meetings” and the need to ramp up climate ambition during this decade, while addressing finance, adaptation and loss and damage.

Around 28 million people worldwide are currently in situations of forced labor. Where did labor governance go wrong, and how do we protect the human rights of workers in supply chains?

To commemorate the Oslo Peace Days, the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights is hosting a roundtable event to discuss the movement against modern slavery. 

Devastating wildfires and floods are causing unprecedented harm to people and nature. Ice shelfs are melting and the Living Planet Report 2022 shows that wildlife populations have dropped with a devastating 69% on average in less than lifetime. Societies are becoming more unequal and populism is on the rise. Yet, for the most part, businesses, financial markets and policy-makers continue with a business-as-usual approach to all economic, social and commercial activities. This poses significant risks to our collective ways of life.

The workshop reflects on the meaning of solidarity in the context of free movement law. Maria Haag explores the shift in the Court of Justice’s jurisprudence in welfare solidarity from a social integration approach to an allegedly ‘neutral’ reliance on secondary rules. Niamh Nic Shuibhne asks whether precise legal obligations can be transposed to the free movement of persons from the more abstract principle of solidarity in EU law. Turning to free movement of goods, Alessandro Petti discusses the relationship between autonomy and solidarity on the basis of the EU Covid-19 vaccines purchase and export mechanism.

The workshop will discuss the development of granting an increasing number of administrative authorities independence, examine the place which these bodies occupy in the constitutional arrangement, and their legitimacy. It is arranged by BI Norwegian Business School, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and University of Oslo. It is a part of the research project Central Banks’ expanded role in financial markets, which is funded by Finansmarkedsfondet and managed by the Norwegian Research Council.

Peter Davis, LLM at the Department of Private Law will be defending the thesis Encryption’s ‘Going Dark’ Debate: The Rule of Law confronts the Laws of Mathematics for the degree of PhD.

The meeting is open to all members of Daughters of Themis – and we welcome new members: anyone identifying as a female business scholar, i.e. undertaking research concerning business, in any discipline or across disciplines, is welcome to apply for membership. We especially encourage scholars from low-income countries, of diverse backgrounds and in all levels of academia to apply.

European Law Lunch with professor Roman Petrov, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and professor Christophe Hillion, Centre for European Law.

The University of Oslo and the Center for Peace and Justice, Brac University co-organize an event on international refugee law and the Rohingya refugee situation in Bangladesh.

How does a trace turn into evidence and legal knowledge? The research projects Evidently Rape and Digital DNA follow forensic traces from the crime scene to the courtroom. Join the conference «Evidence in Motion».

Yuliya Chernykh will give a lecture with the title: Reintroduction of the Olympic Truce: Archival Studies and Contemporary Assessment

Welcome to this guest lecture by Akinaga Yoshida on how the Human Rights Committee can address human rights issues and ensure the effective implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in Japan. 

Master of Science Nina Sunde at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law and the Norwegian Police University College will be defending the thesis "Constructing digital evidence. A study on how cognitive and human factors affect digital evidence" for the degree of PhD.

Master of Science Nina Sunde will give a trial lecture on the given topic: What are the implications and potential blind spots of the proliferation of cognitive psychology in the professionalization of detective’s work?

Welcome to this lunch seminar with presentation by Susanne Oliver Haaland, Research assistant, Department of Private law, University of Oslo.

Open for all interested. 

European Law Lunch with Alessandro Petti, postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Private Law, affiliated with the LEVEL project.

Spørsmål om samiske rettigheter og forholdet mellom den norske staten og Sapmi står øverst på den politiske dagsorden. Tema for årets symposium er kompetanse og kunnskapsbygging. Hva slags samerettslig kompetanse trenger jurister for å identifisere og løse sentrale samfunnsmessige problemstillinger?

The United Nations Human Rights Committee in the "Torres Strait Islanders Case"

Several on-going project at the University of Oslo will be presented and discussed at the seminar.

What are the achievements, milestones and challenges for Norwegian universities to be more inclusive?

Welcome to our afternoon seminar with presentation by Nazli Azergun, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia.

Open for all interested.