Research profile
The Law Faculty has a dynamic and modern research environment with an increasing international representation.
Researchers at the Faculty of Law, Johan Giertsen, Birthe Taraldset, Filip Truyen Foto: Paul S. Amundsen
The faculty is organised in research groups, and has some important academic programmes that operate outside the more formally constituted research groups.
Our research policy encourages collaborative research, teamwork and interdiciplinary work, and the faculty coordinates an interdisciplinary University research programme on human rights, democracy, development, globalisation and citizenship.
We offer foremost expertise in criminal law and criminal theory. Also, many of our senior researchers are devoted to human rights law and welfare law.
The faculty has strong research environments in private law, and research areas of priority include competition law and EU law, as well as intellectual property law.
Central to our pursuits is the focus on law and its interaction with modern legislation and regulation – also on an international level. An example of a vibrant research programme is the programme on The Internationalisation of Criminal Law.
In addition, we have innovative and ambitious research programmes on fundamental theoretical questions in Criminal Law Theory and Tort Law.
Moreover, our faculty is coordinating interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research related to law, conservation ecology and development studies based in the Himalayas.
Last updated 29.3.2010