News archive for Faculty of Law

Small and medium enterprises are vital to the European economy. Yet, their justice needs and the justice gaps they face are seldom discussed.

Professor Anna Nylund is one of the editors of a new book on how EU law influence national civil procedural law and national court systems.

Alessia Di Muro has joined BERG as a PhD candidate. The title of her thesis is "Artificial Intelligence and Equality: The Need for Gender-Responsive Data".

The new Master of Laws (LLM) in EU and EEA Law has started at the Faculty of Law. Eylul Sahin from France and Marcelina Mierzwa from Poland are among the first students on the program.

More than 250 migration scholars from around the world are gathered for the 22nd Nordic Migration Research (NMR) conference, taking place at the University of Bergen, 14-16 August.

In October, the Pandemic Centre is offering an interdisciplinary course for students on preparedness for health crises. The course is primarily aimed at PhD candidates and master's students and will address a range of exciting issues in collaboration with some of the leading experts at UiB.

Professor Linda Gröning at UiB is among the leading researchers in questions related to criminal responsibility and criminal insanity. She is concerned about discrimination and injustice in the legal system if it does not rely on updated knowledge about mental illness - and finds it urgent to clarify how mental illness is relevant to criminal responsibility.

Professor Sören Koch has published an article about the Norwegian regulation of assisted dying in light of national and international developments.