European and Global Collaboration
The Faculty of Law has a dynamic and wide international relations network.
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The Faculty of Law is strongly committed to international collaboration in research and education, and we are continuously working to maintain, and to develop new, collaboration agreements with the best law schools and law faculties around the world.
We strive to make studies abroad available to our students, and to bring students from all over the world to our faculty to offer an international campus for those of our students who do not go abroad.
Our students and researchers benefit from more than 150 international partners on faculty level, in addition to benefitting from the University of Bergen’s many institutional partnerships.
Why do we want our students to go broad?
Among the students graduating with a Master of Law degree from the University of Bergen over the last decade, between 40 and 50 % had spent a semester or a year abroad as part of their studies.
We firmly believe that a semester or year abroad broadens the students’ perspectives, gives valuable knowledge about foreign law and legal cultures and provides the students with an international network which will be valuable in their future careers. Also, while learning about foreign law and legal cultures, the students simultaneously increase their understanding and awareness of special characteristics of Norwegian law and legal culture.
Through the five-year Master's program in Law, we want our students to learn to collaborate with lawyers from other countries. When our students graduate, they shall be able to understand and benefit from foreign lawyers' perspectives on common legal challenges, in addition to contributing with Norwegian perspectives. Future lawyers should also be able to communicate legal analyses in writing and orally in English, or possibly another foreign language, and studies abroad are an important means to this end.
Participation in European and International Networks
The Faculty of Law is a member of several European and International networks with the aim of enhancing international collaboration and sharing of knowledge and best practices.
- The European Law Faculties Association (ELFA)
- The LEN-group
- The Rotterdam Law Network
- The Nordplus Network for Law
- The Nijmegen Network
- The Silk Road Law School Alliance
The Faculty of Law was also a member of the Caen-Würzburg network until the network was dissolved in 2023.
Student Exchange and Study Abroad Partners
(up to date as of December 2023)
Below, we have listed the study abroad and exchange partners of the Faculty of Law. You can read more about the partners both on faculty level and institutional level on the University of Bergen's website for exchange agreements (norwegian only).
America
Canada
- Dalhousie University
- The University of Western Ontario
USA
- American University Washington College of Law, Washington DC
- Fordham University
- Mitchell Hamline School of Law
- Penn State Law
- University of California College of the Law, San Fransisco
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of Minnesota
- Washington University, St. Louis
Asia
China
- China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing
- China Foreign Affairs University, Beijing
- Fudan University, Shanghai
- Peking University, Beijing
- Renmin University of China, Beijing
- Shandong University, Jinan
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai
- Tsinghua University, Beijing
Hong Kong
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- City University of Hong Kong
India
- National Law University Delhi
Israel
- Tel Aviv University
Turkey
- Koc University
Europe
Austria
- Johannes Kepler University Linz
- Karl Franzens University of Graz
- University of Innsbruck
Belgium
- Brussels Free University
- Ghent University
- KU Leuven
- Université Catholique de Louvain
- Université de Liège
Cyprus
University of Central Lancashire
Croatia
- University of Rijeka
- University of Zagreb
Czech Republic
- Charles University, Prague
- Masaryk University, Brno
Denmark
- Aalborg University
- Aarhus University
- University of Copenhagen
- University of Southern Denmark
Estonia
- University of Tartu
Finland
- University of Eastern Finland
- University of Helsinki
- University of Lapland
- University of Turku
France
- Aix-Marseille University
- Lyon Catholic University
- Université Grenoble Alpes
- University Jean Moulin (Lyon III)
- University of Caen
- University of Cergy-Pontoise
- University of La Rochelle
- University of Lyon II
- University of Nantes
- University of Poitiers
- University of Rennes I
- University of Strasbourg
- University of Paris (Paris V)
- University Paris X Nanterre
Germany
- Albert Ludwig University Freiburg im Breisgau
- Bavarian Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg
- Bucerius Law School, Hamburg
- Christian Albrecht University of Kiel
- EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht
- Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald
- Freie Universität Berlin
- Georg August University Göttingen
- Humboldt University Berlin
- Justus Liebig University Giessen
- Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
- Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- Philipps-University of Marburg
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- Saarland University
- Universität Bielefeld
- University of Augsburg
- University of Cologne
- University of Constance
- University of Heidelberg
- University of Mannheim
- University of Passau
- University of Potsdam
- University of Regensburg
- University of Trier
- Westphalian Wilhelms University Münster
Greece
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Hungary
- Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
- Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest
Iceland
- Reykjavik University
- University of Iceland
Ireland
- University College Cork
- University of Galway
Italy
- Free International University of Social Studies 'Guido Carli' (LIUSS), Rome
- University of Bologna
- University of Milan
- University of Milan-Bicocca
- University of Padua
- University of Siena
- University of Turin
Latvia
- Riga Graduate School of Law
- University of Latvia
Lithuania
- Mykolas Romeris University
- Vilnius University
Netherlands
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- Radboud University Nijmegen
- University of Amsterdam
- University of Groningen
Poland
- Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
- Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw
- Jagiellonian University, Cracow
- Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun
- University of Białystok
- University of Gdansk
- University of Lódz
- University of Warsaw
- Wroclaw University
Portugal
- Universidade de Lisboa
Romania
- Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi
Russia
- Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
- National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow
Slovakia
- Comenius University in Bratislava
- University of Trnava
Slovenia
- University of Ljubljana
Spain
- Autonomous University of Barcelona
- ESADE Ramon LLull University
- Pontifical University Comillas
- University of Girona
- University of Malaga
- University of Múrcia
- University of Oviedo
- University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona
- University of Salamanca
- University of Santiago de Compostela
- University of Valencia
- University of Zaragoza
Sweden
- Göteborg University
- Lund University
- Stockholm University
- Umeå University
- Uppsala University
- Örebro University
Switzerland
- University of Bern
- University of Fribourg
United Kingdom
- Aberystwyth University
- King's College London, University of London
- Lancaster University
- Queen Mary University of London
- School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
- University of Aberdeen
- University of Dundee
- University of Glasgow
- University of Kent at Canterbury
- University of Liverpool
- University of Manchester
- University of Southampton
Oceania
Australia
- Bond University
- University of Queensland
- University of Sydney
New Zealand
- University of Auckland