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Corporate social responsibility is an area that is rapidly gaining attention. The issue of companies’ accountability for the whole value chain is raised with increased frequency, particularly as far as concerns violation of human rights, labour- or environmental law incurred abroad by subsidiaries or suppliers.

Welcome to this seminar focusing on Elon Musk, the Law of the Sea and the development of outer space. 

Welcome to this afternoon guest lecture with Professor Yuko Kimijima, Keio University, Tokyo.

The seminar is open for all interested. 

Deprivation of liberty is subject to the strictest legality requirements, but the grounds and procedures of detention in international and non-international conflicts are contested. Several states have in the last decade looked into providing legal base in domestic law without introducing any legislation or reaching any outcome otherwise.

External PhD candidate Stuart Weinstein, Aston University, Birmingham, UK, will present his PhD project: "AI and Legal Risk: Can the Past and the Future Teach Us About the Present?".

Author of the book is Linn Anker-Sørensen, Director, Head of Sustainability Tax & Law Norway at Ernst & Young. 

Ola Mestad, Professor at Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, will present the book "Corporate Groups and Shadow Business Practices".

Open for all interested. 

The Albanian High Judicial Council and Albanian Supreme Court, in cooperation with the Tirana Legal Aid Society, cordially invites you to the International Conference Model of selection, evaluation and promotion of judges: What competences and skills matter? Best practices and trends.

The workshop will discuss central banks’ expanding roles, independence and control mechanisms. Amongst other issues, it will examine the historical origin of central bank independence, to what extent are courts and tribunals willing to review the legality of central banks’ decision making, and how is this influencing central banks policies, as well as what alternative mechanisms for checks and balances of central bank policies exist.

Welcome to our afternoon seminar with presentation by Minah Tong-Mongalo, Ph.D. student at the University of Cape Town.

Open for all interested. 

Welcome to our lunch seminar with presentation by Petri Mäntysaari, Professor of commercial law at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki and Vaasa, Finland.

Open for all interested. Zoom link below.

Welcome to our afternoon seminar with presentation by Astrid Iversen, associate professor at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and guest researcher at University of Oslo.

Open for all interested. Please register your participation.

The Institute of Private Law of Oslo University and the Montaigne Centre for Rule of Law and Administration of Justice and the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) of Utrecht University are co-organising an International Workshop

The presentation is held by Tiziana Melchiorre, from Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG). She is currently a guest researcher at the University of Tromsø,  Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea.

Joint academic lunch between Centre for European law and the Labour law research group.

Welcome to our lunch seminar with presentation by Katrien Morbee, Lecturer in Banking and Finance Law, Queen Mary University of London.

Open for all interested. Please register your participation.

Welcome to our lunch seminar with presentation by Eugenia Macchiavello, Assistant Professor in Financial Regulation, University of Genoa, Italy

Open for all interested. Please register your participation.

Welcome to our lunch seminar with presentation by Aude-Solveig Epstein, Visiting Assistant Professor of legal studies at NYU Abu Dhabi.

Open for all interested. Please register your participation.

How should central banks deal with the current climate crisis? Does a broader role for central banks in questions related to the climate crisis require rethinking their independence from democratic politics or does it fit within their current mandate? And if central banks have a role to play with regards to the climate crisis, are the tools available good enough?

The aim of this fully digital seminar is to analyse the proposed Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and its potential for improvement in light of overarching sustainability objectives.

Welcome to our lunch seminar with presentation by Roni Laakso, University of Helsinki.

Open for all interested. Please register your participation.

Welcome to this afternoon seminar with presentation by Madeleine Østenstad, Research assistant, Department of Private law, University of Oslo.

Open for all interested. Please register your participation.

Welcome to our lunch seminar with presentation by Jaakko Salminen, Copenhagen Business School/University of Turku.

Open for all interested. Please register your participation.

This lecture, while open for all, is designed for master students at the University of Oslo and Nyenrode University. It discusses what Professor Beate Sjåfjell has referred to as the missing link in the EU’s initiatives to promote sustainable business: company law.

PhD candidate Lukasz Bojarski at the Department of Private Law will on Friday 4 February present his doctorate Project: "Judicial Resistance against the Rule of Law Backsliding—Judges and Citizens—the case of Poland".