Hans Fredrik Marthinussen

Hans Fredrik Marthinussen has his primary field of research in property law, in particular mortgage law and transfers of land or rights in land. He does, however, work regularly within the entire field of private law, and teaches and publishes also on bankruptcy and contract law. He obtained his PhD on a thesis on mortgage accessoriness in Europe, comparing mortgage law in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, France and England.

Marthinussen har extensive international experience with comparative property law and participates in a number of international research projects. He is Norwegian representative in the subgroup on security rights in immovable property of the Trento group “Common Core of a European Private Law” and in the research group “Flexibilität, Sicherheit und Effizienz der Grundpfandrechte in Europa”. He has been a guest scholar at Harvard Law School and regular guest lecturer at Albert-Ludwig-Universität, Freiburg im Breisgau.

Marthinussen is the head of The University of Bergen’s research group on property law and the law of obligations, and he is responsible for the teaching on property, mortgage and bankruptcy law.

Marthinussen has a broad field of interest and also publishes in other disciplines, including within criminal law/criminal procedure/police law in drug-related matters and within administrative law. He is also widely used in Norwegian media and won the Bergens Tidende’s Award for debater of the year in 2016 and the Meltzer Prize for outstanding research dissemination in 2019. He also has extensive experience as a faculty board member and has been a long time board member of the Nordic Lawyer’s meeting.