Katja Jansen Fredriksen
Researcher
Faculty of Law
Research group on Family and Children law, Succession law and law of Persons
Research group on Private International Law and Comparative Law
Research Group for Legal Culture
Title: Researcher
Phone: +47 55 58 97 57
E-mail: Katja.Fredriksen@jur.uib.no
Visiting address: Magnus Lagabøtesplass 1
Shari'a (Islamic law), Private International Law, Comparative Law
Master in Arabic Language and Culture, University of Leyden, the Netherlands
Sworn translator Arabic-Dutch-Arabic
Private International Law, Comparative Law, Cultural Human Rights, Family and Inheritance Law.
Katja J. Fredriksen & Eirik Hovden, "Restorative justice in Islamic criminal law?", in: Linda Gröning & Jørn Jacobsen (eds), Restorative Justice and Criminal Justice. Exploring the Relationship, (Stockholm: Santérus Academic Press, 2012), pp. 41-61.
Katja Jansen Fredriksen, "Mahr (dower) as a Bargaining Tool in a European Context: a Comparison of Dutch and Norwegian Judicial Decisions", in: Rubya Mehdi and Jørgen S. Nielsen, Embedding Mahr in the European Legal System, (Copenhagen: DJØF Publishing, 2011), pp. 147-191.
Katja Jansen Fredriksen og Eirik Hovden, "Jemenittisk strafferett: en intrikat blanding av nasjonal statslovgivning, islamsk rett og stammerett", in: Tidsskrift for Strafferett, Nr. 2/2010 årgang 10, pp. 154-169.
Sharia in Norwegian Courtrooms? ISIM Review 20, Autumn 2007
Private international law (JUS 259), 2010, 2011.
Comparative Politics (SAMPOL101), 2009, 2010.
History (HIM 201), 2008.
Summitted PhD thesis The Islamic dower (the mahr) and its relation to 'limping marriages and divorces' among Muslim communities in Norway. Private international law, possible solutions and the threshold for tolerance.
Juridification and Social Inclusion (2011-2013), funded by the Norwegian Research Council, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, projectleader: Prof. dr. jur. Henriette Sinding Aasen.