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Anti-discrimination legislation grants employees with disabilities the right to accommodation.
The Antarctic ice shelves – the floating glaciers surrounding most of the continent – are melting from below as oceanic currents bring warm water into the cavity. But how and how fast is the ice melting? In this Ocean Science Bar, you will learn why Antarctic ice shelves matter, about what happens below them, and about what it’s like to do fieldwork ”down south”.
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.
The Faculty of Law has an open position for a PhD Research Fellow or Postdoctoral Fellow associated with the Centre on the Europeanisation of Norwegian Law (CENTENOL).
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.
Light is probably the most varying environmental variable in pelagic ecosystems, and the most ignored in ecological studies. In this Ocean Science Bar, you will learn how light structures the distribution of zooplankton and fish.
“The fact that we have just five years left to reach the Sustainable Development Goals should give us reason to pause — can we not do better?” asks Professor Birgit Kopainsky, who will lead Bergen Summer Research School 2025.
A new article by Linda Gröning and Karl Heinrik Melle discusses the first judgments from the Norwegian Supreme Court on the rules of criminal responsibility after the law amendment in 2020.
Professor Linda Gröning at UiB receives a prestigious grant from the European Research Council to explore the connection between mental illness and criminal responsibility.
Professor Sören Koch has published an article about Professor Frede Castberg (1893-1977) and his influence on Norwegian legal culture.
Professor Sören Koch has published an article about the Norwegian regulation of assisted dying in light of national and international developments.
“There is hope in science and research”, said Rector Margareth Hagen in her welcome address to the one hundred PhD candidates from more than thirty countries taking part in the seventeenth Bergen Summer Research School.
Professor Anna Nylund has recently published the book Shaping Civil Litigation Using Procedural Agreements. The book was published by Eleven Publishing, and has been edited in collaboration with Antonio Cabral.
Larry A. Bakken (Hamline University) was a long- standing contributor and lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen.
Applications for our PhD and postdoctoral course hosted in Voss from August 28th to 29th, 2024, are now open.
Professors Anna Nylund, Magne Strandberg and Camilla Bernt traveled to Leiden University to participate in a seminar organized by professor Bart Krans.

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