News archive for Faculty of Law

On 22 December 2016, The EFTA Court delivered its advisory opinion, clarifying what is understood to by restriction of competition by object and whether joint bidding may restriction competition by object as a type of price fixing. BECCLE’s Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui’s analysis of the advisory opinion is forthcoming in European Competition and Regulatory Law Review

The Faculty of Law organised its International Day for the ninth time on 19 January. Here you can watch a short video from the event.

Esmeralda Colombo receives second place in the prestigious Professor William R. Ginsberg Memorial Essay Contest 2016 for her essay titled: ““Enforcing International Law in U.S. Courts: The Law of the Sea Convention at Play in Kivalina.”

Postdoctoral fellow Malgorzata Cyndecka won the European State Aid Quarterly’s award for best PhD dissertation since 2012 within the field of state aid law.

One of the world’s leading judicial scholars has joined the University of Bergen as a visiting professor.

As the first faculty of law in Norway, the Faculty of Law in Bergen offers an introductory course in Chinese law every autumn.

In May this year, a delegation from the Faculty of Law travelled to the National Law University Delhi to participate in a workshop for PhD candidates.

In the wake of the Panama Papers revelations, the importance of tax law is becoming increasingly evident. UiB’s Faculty of Law and the Norwegian School of Economics are partnering up to enhance expertise in this field.