Research

Research Projects

The researchers at The Faculty of Law is involved in several projects funded by local and national partners.

«Politi- og påtalerett» is a project financed by Bergen Research Foundation, The Faculty of Law and National Police Directorate. The project is led by Gert Johan Kjelby.

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Monica Roos

Other Research Projects

Completed Research Projects at the Faculty of Law

PhD Projects at the Faculty of Law

Ongoing research projects

Act on Offshore Monitoring, ACTOM

Professor at the Faculty of Law, Sigrid Eskeland Schütz, is participating in the Horizon 2020 funded interdisciplinary project, ACTOM.

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CITYFREIGHT

The project provides authorities with concrete evaluation tools for regulating freight transportation in smaller cities.

Conditions and regulations in the aquaculture industry

The Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law has recently been involved in a research Project on the aquaculture industry.

Criminal accountability and mental disorders around the world

Pilot project investigating how selected countries in the Global South deal with mental disorders in the criminal law. The project is funded by a CMI/UiB collaboration grant.

Designing a Refined Legal Framework for Offshore Wind in the North Sea Basin (DeWindSea)

Professor Sigrid Eskeland Schütz has received grants from Akademiaavtalen to do research on the legal framework on offshore wind in the North Sea Basin. The project is funded over a four year period, until 2024.

DIMENSIONS

DIMENSIONS is a five-year project on criminal insanity and psychosis. The project is funded by The Research Council of Norway.

Fundamental Concepts of Tax Law in a New Age

Fundamental Concepts of Tax Law in a New Age is a project established by the Norwegian Tax Administration and the University of Bergen. It is led by Henrik Skar, a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Law.

Governing Offshore Wind: Legal Challenges, Market Opportunities and Policy Perspectives (GOV-WIND)

Governing Offshore Wind er et prosjekt som ledes av forsker Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui ved Det juridiske fakultet. Prosjektet er et 6-årlig internasjonalt prosjekt som tar for seg de rettslige utfordringene ved reguleringer av havvind-produksjon.

GOVLAND - Legal governance in land use planning

Striking a balance between national and municipal power and between private initiative and public control.

Historicizing the ageing self: Literature, medicine, psychology, law

Issues of Domestic Prosecution of War Crimes in Ukraine

Project aiming to legally asses issues of the prosecution of war crimes in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War. The project is conducted by Artem Nazarko and is funded under the EU’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions scheme.

LaW-BALANCE

LaW-BALANCE is a four-year project on the legal framework of working life in transition. The project is funded by The Research Council of Norway.

The Legal History of the Norwegian Police and Policing 1686 - 2016

Large project on the legal history of the Norwegian police and policing from the year 1686 until 2016.

The Legal Reform

Research into legal transformation and reform is central to the Faculty of law, University of Bergen. We acknowledge the central role of legal science in solving central societal challenges, such as climate change, pandemic disease, and the digital transformation of the economy. Therefore, we are...

#LoVeSeSDG

#LoVeSeSDG - Localizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development for the Barents Sea-Lofoten ecosystem in a changing climate - is a project that focuses on the Lofoten-Vesterålen-Senja (LoVeSe) region in Norway.

Island Lives, Ocean States

Island Lives, Ocean States (OceanStates) is a research project about the Pacific Islands, climate change and the politics of the ocean. The OceanStates project aims to build new and urgent interdisciplinary analysis of one of the greatest challenges of our time: how Pacific islanders and their...

The Norwegian Code of the Realm 1274 - project (2014-2024)

The Code of 1274-project aims at researching the making of the Norwegian Code of the Realm of 1274, and its European and Norwegian legal historical context.

Polycentric climate governance in action: study of the interaction between Norwegian and Amazonian agricultural policy for climate change

This Postdoc project is a part of the overarching LEG-ARCH project (Legal Architecture of Climate Politics) which is a collaboration project between the Faculty of law and the Faculty of social sciences. The project is led by postdoctoral researcher Cataline Vallejo.

VARCITIES

The project seeks to establish sustainable models for increasing the health and wellbeing of citizens (children, young people, middle age, elderly) that are exposed to diverse climatic conditions and challenges around Europe.

WAIT

The WAIT project uses theories of temporality and the concept of 'waitinghood' as tools for producing new and critical insights into the cultural conditions and implications of migration.

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