- E-mailMelanie.Hack@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 96 79
- Visitor AddressMagnus Lagabøtes plass 15010 Bergen
- Postal AddressPostboks 78065020 Bergen
My research is located at the intersection of labour and social security law with a view of the Europeanisation and internationalization of both areas of law. A strong methodological feature of my research is therefore focusing on legal comparative analysis. The overarching guiding research question for all projects I have been part of has been to identify what answers the current law can give us to tackle societal changes like demographic change, digitalization, and migration and how the law may be reformed to address these challenges. A further key dominator of my research has been the inclusion of vulnerable groups in the labour market by strengthening the non-discrimination law regime to achieve substantive equality in working life.
Knowledge exchange with international researchers as well as relevant stakeholders has always been important to me. I have been a visiting scholar at leading research institutions in the USA (George Washington University, Washington DC.), UK (UCL, London) and Germany (Max-Planck-Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Munich) and held several talks at international conferences (e.g. Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland). During my professional career I also gained in-depth experience in project- and science management by inter alia being an elected member of the Scientific Council of the Max Planck Society and finally during my position as private secretary of Vice-President of the TU Berlin and by later leading the division of Diversity, Inclusion and Internationalization within Strategic Controlling at TU Berlin.
see for further information my Orcid-Profile: Melanie Regine Hack (0000-0002-4470-7206) (orcid.org
teaching in Norwegian:
Arbeidsrett fordypning, JUS251-2-B, Høst 2021
Trygderett; trygdemedisin for primærkontakter, MANT306A, UiB Vår 2022
Storgruppeleder, Norske og internasjonale rettslege institusjonar (NIRI), Jus 121, vår 2022
teaching in English:
from autumn 2022 together with Ingrid Halvorsen Barlund course supervisor, EU and EEA Commercial Law, JUS 287-2-A
- (2018). Diskriminierung aufgrund der Religion und Weltanschauung im Arbeitsverhältnis – Ein Blick nach Norwegen. Neue Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht. 63-68.
- (2017). Mandatory retirement age(s) in Germany. European Equality Law Review. 1-14.
- (2016). Wahlarbeitszeit und Arbeitszeitflexibilisierung: Modelle einer selbstbestimmten Erwerbsbiografie in Deutschland und Norwegen. Zeitschrift für europäisches Arbeits- und Sozialrecht. 11 pages.
- (2015). Der Schutz von Asylbewerbern und Flüchtlingen in Schweden. Zeitschrift für Ausländische und Internationales Arbeits- und Sozialrecht. 157-179.
- (2012). To be or not be be? – The Norwegian dilemma of being just politically bound to Framework Directive 2000/78/EC. Europäische Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht. 357-367.
- (2011). Gamle professorer, bedriftsfastsatte aldersgrenser og eldrebølgen - Om EU-domstolens dom 18. november 2010, forenede saker C-250/09 og C-268/09 Vasil Ivanov Georgiev mot Technical University of Sofia, filial Plovdic; og Borgarting lagmannsretts dom og kjennelse 13. desember 2010 i Gjensidige-Saken (LB-2010-99479-LB2010-99486). Nytt i privatretten : nyhetsbrev for informasjon på det privatret. 5-6.
- (2011). Etter lek med ild og vann, nå lek med luften – Aldersdiskriminering, aldersgrense, tvungen pensjonering av piloter ‒ EU-Domstolens dom (storkammer) 13. september 2011, sak C-447/09 Reinhard Prigge, Michael Fromm, Volker Lambach mot Deutsche Lufthansa AG. Nytt i privatretten : nyhetsbrev for informasjon på det privatret. 1-2.
- (2010). Impact or potential of anti-discrimination legislation in light of the demographic change – Comparisons between Norway and Germany. Europäische Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht. 347-359.
- (2022). "European Pillar of Social Rights as a catalyst for work-life balance in the EU and beyond", Fellesseminar i europarett for UiO og UiB .
- (2017). "Much ado about nothing?" How digitalization of working life impacts social security systems – an example from Norway and Germany.
- (2016). «(Absolutte) aldersgrenser og alternativer til det», Presentation Norwegian Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs.
- (2016). Demografischer Wandel und Arbeitsrecht - Altersgrenzen auf dem Prüfstand.
- (2016). "Taking age equality seriously – Presentation of PhD-Thesis», Norwegian Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs.
- (2015). «Aldring og aldersgrenser», Foredrag for external stakeholders om resulater og funn i doktoravhandlingen.
- (2020). Monday on the Couch: Arbeit und Lernen 4.0 - Chancen für eine neue Lernkultur.
- (2016). Skandinavien als Forschungsgegenstand – Einblicke in die Arbeit des Skandinavienreferates am Max-Planck-Institut für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik, Meeting of the German-Norwegian Network, Presentation at Headquarter of Max Planck Society.
- (2015). «Nord eller sør – ja takk, begge deler; wie gewinnt man junge Talente in Deutschland bzw. Norwegen zum Wohl von Firmen im bilateralen Wirtschaftsverkehr?», Tagung des deutsch- norwegischen Wirtschaftsrates/Tysk-norsk næringsrådet.
- (2022). Working-life Out-of-Balance? Legal Responses in the EU and Norway to Parenthood and Caregiving in Times of Crisis, SESSION 3A Gender and Caregiving Challenges: Policy Responses, 19° International Conference in Commemoration of Prof. Marco Biagi, Work beyond the pandemic. Towards a human-centred Recovery, Modena, Italy, 26-27.05.2022 .
- (2022). Keynote: Moving towards a social Europe: EU’s work-life balance directive and its implementation in Norway, social welfare conference/Hyvinvointioikeuden päivät 2022, University of Vaasa, Finland .
- (2018). Diskriminierung aufgrund der Religion und Weltanschauung im Arbeitsverhältnis – Ein Blick nach Norwegen.
- (2017). "Much ado about nothing?" How digitalization impacts social security systems in Norway and Sweden».
- (2016). «Der Umgang mit dem demographischen Wandel in Norwegen», Vierzehntes Göttinger Forum zum Arbeitsrecht.
- (2016). «(Re-)Integration in den Arbeitsmarkt», Max-Planck-Institute For Social Law and Social Policy.
- (2016). Free Market Economy and Human Rights: Enemies or Allies? - An "Assessment of Labour Activation Policies in Norway and the Netherlands", Remarklab Final Conference, New Foundations of Labour Law in the Globalised Market Economy.
- (2016). "Taking Age Equality Seriously – The Example of Mandatory Retirement", Presentation on the occasion of symposium for Prof. Dr. med. H. M. Hasselhorn.
- (2015). «Mandatory Retirement – Recent Legal Developments in Norway», Max-Planck-Institute for social law and policy, Joint seminar.
- (2011). To be or not to be? - The Norwegian dilemma of being just politically bound to Framework Directive 2000/78/EC?
- (2011). The Application of the Proportionality Principle in EU law and Norwegian law; The Case of Mandatory Retirement - Examples from case law of the ECJ: Case C-447/09 (Prigge and Others) and Case C-341/08 (Petersen).
- (2010). Tariffregulering i lovens skygge. Aldersgrenser i tariffavtaler.
- (2009). Impact or Potential of Anti-discrimination Legislation Comparison between Norway and Germany, Workshop at IAAEG Trier November 12th and 13th, 2009, Title of the Workshop: Extending the Working Life: Empirical Analyses of Legal Regulations and their Enforcement.
- (2016). Taking Age Equality Seriously: The Example of Mandatory Retirement. A Comparative Legal Analysis between Norway and Germany in Light of Council Directive 2000/78/EC.
- (2016). Aldersdiskriminering, aldersgrense for bussjåfører - svensk AD 2015 nr 51. Nytt i privatretten : nyhetsbrev for informasjon på det privatret. 8-9.
- (2018). Social Benefits and Employment Protection in Case of Long-Term Sickness in Norway. 19 pages.
- (2016). Flexibilisierung des Erwerbslebens - Segen oder Fluch? Beispiel aktueller Gesetzesentwicklungen in Norwegen. 10 pages.
- (2012). Should I stay or should I go? Altersgrenzenregelungen für Professoren in Norwegen. 22 pages.
- (2010). Etter lek med ild, nå lek med vann: Aldersgrense, pensjonsalder, sjømenn - Høyesterettsdom 18. februar 2010 (HR-2010-00303-A). Nytt i privatretten : nyhetsbrev for informasjon på det privatret. 2-3.
- (2010). Arbeidsrett. Lek med ilden - djevelen stikker i detaljene: Aldersdiskriminering, maksimalalder for ansettelse i brannvesen - EU-domstolens dom 12. januar 2010, sak C-229/08 Colin Wolf mot Stadt Frankfurt am Main. Nytt i privatretten : nyhetsbrev for informasjon på det privatret. 7-8.
- (2010). Aldersdiskriminering - grønt lys for tvungen pensjonering? Automatisk opphør av arbeidsforhold ved nådd aldersgrense er ikke nødvendigvis utillatelig - EU-domstolens dom 12. oktober 2010 i sak C-45/09 Gisela Rosenbladt v Oellerking Gebäudereinigungsges. mbH. Nytt i privatretten : nyhetsbrev for informasjon på det privatret. 2-4.
- (2019). Der Krieg der Richter Die deutsche Besatzung 1940-1945 und der norwegische Rechtsstaat.
- (2022). Får du erstatning hvis du faller ned trappa på hjemmekontoret? KRONIKK: Hybride arbeidsformer er den nye normalen, men viktige spørsmål om rettigheter på hjemmekontoret er uavklarte. Forskersonen.no.
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