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On December 2. esteemed researchers from across Europe met – both physically and digitally – with the Research Group for Civil Procedure and Dispute Resolution for a comparative discussion on elements of orality in different European legal systems.
The results of a new project-based course on GDPR supervised by Associate Professor Malgorzata Cyndecka are out, and they are impressive.
Video presentations from the DIMENSIONS conference on legal, philosophical and psychiatric perspectives on mental disorder and criminal justice.
In january the Pandemic Centre will offer a two-weeks course for students to learn from the Covid-19 pandemic. The course is open to both PhD-students and Master students from all diciplines at the university.
The conference “Tax Law - Contemporary Issues” was held on 25 November 2021 at the Faculty of Law in Bergen.
In collaboration with the research group for Natural Resource law, Environmental law and Development law, the student organization Enviro arranged a lecture on the EU climate package "Fit for 55" on 11 November.
Max Münchmeyer, a PhD researcher at the Department of Law at the European University Institute in Florence, presented parts of his PhD project to the research group on 11 November.
Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui, leader of the research group, gave two presentations at the annual multi-day conference Offshore Technology Days (OTD) which took place on 20 October in Stavanger.
Legal scholar Tova Bennet and philosopher Raffaele Rodogno have started in positions in the DIMENSIONS-project.
On 14 October, Charikleia Vlachou, Lecturer in Energy Law at the University of Cyprus, held a seminar for the research group on the judicial review of ACER decisions.
Postdoctoral fellow and leader of the research group, Ingrid Margrethe Halvorsen Barlund, will be part of a government-appointed committee that will review and assess the Norwegian Act on Financial Supervision
The July 22 case raised an extensive discussion about criminal insanity and mental illness, which led to legislative changes from 2020. But there are still ambiguities that can only be resolved through research, according to law professor Linda Gröning at UiB.
Law professor Linda Gröning, psychiatrist Unn K. Haukvik and philosopher Susanna Radovic sheds light on delusions and insanity. The goal is a common understanding across disciplines which will result in better judicial decisions.
Law of Armed Conflict, with emphasis on maritime operations, is a new post graduate course, staring up autumn 2021. The course will focus on maritime military operations.
“International law is arguably helping domestic courts deal with the exceptionality of climate change in access to justice matters,” says Esmeralda Colombo at The faculty of Law, University of Bergen. She recently delivered her PhD thesis on the subject. Read interview with Colombo here.
The first joint article from the Pandemic Centre as a unit has now been published in Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.
Members of the research group, Ingunn Elise Myklebust and Ernst Nordtveit, participated on May 20 in a discussion on the Supreme Court's recent ruling on the wolf case.

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