Sören Koch
- E-mailsoren.koch@uib.no
- Phone+47 55 58 95 37+4795984843
- Visitor AddressMagnus Lagabøteplass 1BergenRoom447
- Postal AddressPostboks 78065020 Bergen
Comparative law and legal cultural studies:
Rights of Nature in the Norwegian legal Culture
Climate change litigation and its impact on legal cultures
Assisted dying - regulation of assisted suicide domestically and internationally
Comparing Legal Methods
Methodology of comparative law
Comparative legal History
Legal historical research
Natural Law in the 18th and 19th century (ed. Marius Mikkel Kjølstad)
Legal historical studies of Hanseatic and Norwegian Law (in cooperation with prof. Geir Atle Ersland and Stadtarkiv i Lübeck)
Pluralistic governance of the Hanse - cooperation with the University of Hamburg, Oxford, Tartu, Bergen, Oslo, Frankfurt and Amsterdam
The legal and social standing of Women at the Hanseatic Kontor - Cooperation with European Hanse Museum in Lübeck, Hanse Museum in Bergen, HF/Juss
Creatively compiling the Law: Re-creating legal Authority in early modern Denmark-Norway and Scotland (cooperation University of Aberdeen).
Hugo Grotius influence on the legal doctrine of the 16th and 17th centuries (Leuven)
Urbane property structures (cooperation with HVL, HF)
Regulating timber trade in Western Norway in the 16th til 18th century (as part of the Norwegian-Scottish history research network).
Rettslig regulering av Pomorhandel in Northern Norway.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - FAZ - Einspruch November 2019
https://www.faz.net/-irf-9tig4?premium=0xb7bc979ea776db1689ae3f7c5598ca39&GEPC=s3
Digital publication: Sören Koch, Innsikt juridica, Universitetsforlaget 3. juni 2021: https://juridika.no/innsikt/den-tyske-klimadommen
Blogg: Britisch Association of Comparative Law 28.febr. 2021: Comparing Legal Cultures 2nd ed 2020 by Sören Koch
UiB-Innsikt 11. December 2021: The Kontor in Bergen - a legal history (en rettshistorie)
Short film- Christian the V's Norwegian Code - Cooperation with Spesial Collection at the UiB-Libary (Gina Dahl)
My undergraduates/postgraduates courses
1. Exploring the Norwegian Legal Culture (non-mandatory introductory course for undergraduate students, ERASMUS) until 2022
2. JUS 290-2-A Comparing Legal Cultures in Europe (International and domestic masterscourse) from 2024 JUS 2320
3. JUS 134 Rettskultur, rettshistorie og komparativ rett (Legal Culture, Legal History and Comparative Law) from 2024 JUS 232
4. JUS 134 V-18 KINA - Legal Culture, Legal History and Comparative Law with a special focus on China (paused)
5. JUS 397 - Research Line - master course 70 ECTS
6. JUS 297-2-A Comparative European Constitutional Law
7. JUS 233 Comparative law (from 2024)
Teacher
5. JUS 121 NIRI (National and International legal Institutions) until 2019
6. JUS 399 Masteroppgaver (Master-studies)
7. JUS 397 Research-line (forskerlinje)
External teaching:
Lecturer, Western Legal Cultures, INN, Lillehammer, Norway
Teacher, Research-line (forskerlinje), University of Tromsø, Norway
Teacher, honours course (European Legal History), Universität Bonn, Germany
Teacher, undergraduate course (Comparative Law), Universitet i Tromsø, Norway
Teacher, honours course (Comparative Law), Universitas Autonomá Madrid (UAM), Spain
Teacher, honours course (European Legal History) and ordinary undergraduate course (Introduction to Comparative law), (LLM-course) Dissertation Management, School of Law, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Teacher, masters course (European Legal History), University of Zürich, Switzerland
- (2023). Pluralistic governance: researching Hanse cooperation beyond classical concepts of “nation-state”: The case of the Bergen Kontor.
- (2023). Nye undervisningsformer i rettshistorie i Norden, en komparativ analyse .
- (2023). Concluding remarks on the Conference: Nordic Legal Culture: Myth or Reality?
- (2021). Regulering av aktiv dødshjelp i lys av nyere internasjonale utviklinger.
- (2021). Interdisciplinary comparative analysis - a lesson to learn from comparative law.
- (2021). Hanseatiske rettsprotokoller - en glemte spor fra fortiden.
- (2019). “Creatively plundering the law – Ludvig Holberg’s compilation of Pufendorf’s natural law”.
- (2019). The German legal Culture in a nutshell .
- (2019). Some thought on legal compilation - methodological approaches and their challenges.
- (2019). Legal compilation - exploring historical and comparative dimensions.
- (2019). Compilations in Nordic legal History .
- (2019). Comparative legal method - a contextual approach based on an operationalised concept of legal culture.
- (2018). Panteretten historiske utvikling i tidlig nytid. .
- (2018). Opening lecture - the history of commercial law today.
- (2018). Kompilasjon som undervurdert fenomen i norsk, nordisk og internasjonal rettshistorie .
- (2018). Hanseatischer Einfluss auf das norwegische Recht im 16. Jahrhunderts – Am Beispiel des Kreditsicherungsrechts.
- (2018). Hanseatic impact on credit-security law in Norway.
- (2017). Vielfalt rechtsgeschichtlicher Forschung.
- (2017). Reformajon og rett – fravær av debatten om en konstitusjonelt forankret rett til motstand i Norge .
- (2017). Legal compilation in the 18th century.
- (2017). Holberg som kristen jurist.
- (2017). Diversity in European Legal Cultures - moderation.
- (2016). Right to resistance and the reformation.
- (2016). Heineccius og Holberg - to opplysningsforfattere og kompilister.
- (2015). Legal Culture as a framework for legal comparison.
- (2015). Holberg og Pufendorf.
- (2015). Forholdet mellom naturretten og dansk/norsk lov om kontrakter i naturrettslitteraturen på 1700-tallet.
- (2015). Appellens funksjon ved overgang fra en horisontal til en vertikal domstolsstruktur.
- (2014). Presentasjon av avhandlingsutkast: En naturlig rettsordning for det dansk-norske kongeriket. En rettshistorisk analyse av Ludvig Holbergs lærebok i natur- og folkerett.
- (2014). Norwegian Appellate Courts from Medieval Times to Modern Times.
- (2013). Rechtsanwendung ohne System? Norwegens juristische Methodenlehre.
- (2012). Predictability in Norwegian and German law, including the role of case-law in legal argumentation.
- (2012). Norwegens Grunnlov - eine historische Einführung.
- (2012). An operationalised concept of legal culture.
- (2011). Introduction to Norwegian and German legal method from a comparative perspective: Similarities and differences, their reasons and consequences.
- (2010). Erstatning for bortkastede utgifter etter norsk rett.
- (2010). Die Haftung des Nothelfers - eine rechtsvergleichende Studie.
- (2009). Det tyske skadebegrepet.
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
TRACK RECORD: PUBLICATIONS
Monographies:
2024 Koch Sören, Hvem som eier livet? Et rettshistorisk og rettskomparativ bidrag til debatten om medvirkning til selvvalgt livsavslutning, Fagbokforlaget 2024
2015 Koch, Sören. En naturlig rettsorden for det dansk-norske kongeriket - En rettshistorisk analyse av Ludvig Holbergs lærebok i natur- og folkerett. 498 sider. ISBN: 978-82-308-3491-6.
2011 Koch, Sören. Unaufgeforderte Hilfeleistung in Notsituationen, eine rechtshistorische und rechtsvergleichende Studie zu den zivilrechtlichen Aspekten der Nothilfe mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Rechts der Geschäftsführung ohne Auftrag. Peter Lang Publishing Group. p. 412 sider. ISBN: 978-3-631-63007-5.
2011 Koch, Sören. Der Ersatz frustrierter Aufwendungen im norwegischen Recht. Peter Lang Publishing Group. 164 p. ISBN: 978-3-631-61733-5.
Edited volumes of collected papers:
2024 Koch, Sören Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde (eds), Comparing Legal Cultures in Europe, Fagbokforlaget.
2024 Koch, Sören, Ulla Kypta, Johann Ruben Leiss, Stefan Oeter and Merike Ristikivi (eds), Hanse and International Law - Governance dimensions, Springer Nature.
2023 Koch, Sören and Marius Mikkel Kjølstad (eds). Springer Handbook of Legal Cultures, A selection of the world's legal cultures, 1st ed., Springer Nature, 978-3-031-27744-3.
2020 Koch, Sören; Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde (eds) Comparing Legal Cultures – Revised and expanded 2nd edition Fagbogforlag, 803 pages. ISBN: 978-82-450-2091-6.
2017 Koch, Sören; Skodvin, Knut Einar; Sunde, Jørn Øyrehagen (eds). Comparing Legal Cultures. Fagbokforlaget. 358 pages. ISBN: 978-82-450-2091-5
2014 Koch, Sören; Helland, Ingvill (ed). Nordic and Germanic Legal Methods. Mohr Siebeck. 461 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-153062-3.
Articles in scientific journals and volumes of collected papers:
Work in progress:
2024 Koch, Sören, "Skillet mellom privat- og offentlig rett i norsk jussundervisning på første halvdel av 1800-tallet, in Marius Mikkel Kjøstad (ed.), Naturrett etter 1814 - en oversett tradisjon?, Pax (forthcoming).
2024 Koch, Sören, „How to teach comparative law – a new approach based on interactive learning strategies”, Rabel Journal for Comparative Law (forthcoming 12 p.)
2024 Koch, Sören, "Die Neuvermessung des Bergener Kontors - Erik Rosenkrantz Rechtsstreit mit dem Deutschen Kaufmann zu Bergen (1561)", in The Hanseatic History Review, vol 141 (2023) (forthcoming) 16 p.
Reviewed and accepted:
2024 Koch, Sören, The case of Christoff Blumenthal - Ius Commune in the Court Practice of the Hanseatic Kontor in Bergen, in Heikki Pihlajamäki (ed.), Ius Commune and Borders, Borders of Ius Commune, Routledge (forthcoming).
2024 Koch, Sören and Geir Atle Ersland, "The origin and exercise of self-governance and internal jurisdiction of the Hanseatic Contor in Bergen", in The Hanseatic History Review, HGBl. Vol. 142 (forthcoming).
2024 Koch, Sören, '"Livet er et uavhendelig gode" - Norsk regulering av medvirkning til selvvalgt livsavslutning i lys av internasjonale utviklinger', Tidskrift for Rettsvitenskap (forthcoming).
2023 Koch Sören, Esmeralda Colombo and Catalina Vallejo Piedrahíta, Rights of Nature in Norway, in Ralf Michaels (ed.), Rights of Nature a Comparative Study - XIV International Congress of Comparative Law, Intersentia 2023 (forthcoming).
Published:
2023 Koch, Sören, Om den praktiske bruken av "naturretten", i Gunnstein Akselberg (ed.), Holberg...
2023 Koch Sören, Review: Andreas Harald Aure, Ludvig Holberg Rettskunnskap, Vidarforlaget 2021, 463 p., in 1700-tal: Nordic Journal for 18th-century studies, vol 20, 2023 pp.
2023 Koch, Sören, Review Jan Schröder, Recht als Wissenschaft, 3rd edition, 2020 C.H. Beck, Legal History Review, Vol. 89 (2) pp.
2023 Koch, Sören and Kjølstad, Marius Mikkel, Legal Culture - diversity and structure, in idem. (eds), Springer Handbook for Legal Cultures, Springer Nature 978-3-031-27744-3.
2023 Koch Sören, "Norway", in Jan Smits (ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, 3rd ed. Edvard Elgar Publishing 2023, pp. 110-119.
2023 Koch, Sören, "Norm and Fact – timber trade in the early modern Western Norway (1530-1730)Norm and Fact – timber trade in the early modern Western Norway (1530-1730), in A. R. Simpson and Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde (ed.), Scottish and Norwegian relations and commonalities, Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 978-1-3995-0383-3.
2022 Sören Koch, Esmeralda Colombo, and Catalina Vallejo Piedrahíta. "Derechos de la naturaleza en la cultura jurídica noruega: ser o no ser?". Naturaleza y Sociedad. Desafíos Medioambientales, no. 4 (2022): https://doi.org/10.53010/nys4.06
2022 Koch, Sören, Ulla Krypta and Johann Ruben Leiss, 'Pluralisische Governance: Die Erforschung hanseatischer Kooperation jenseits von klassischen Staatskonzepten', The Hanseatic History Review /Hanseatische Geschichtsblätter (HGBl. Vol. 140), pp. 59-90.
2022 Review: Valasakis, Manuel: Effektivität und Zukunft der deutschen Zivilgerichtsbarkeit. Ein Vergleich mit der Konfliktbeilegung in Norwegen, Regensburg 2021, Rabel Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Law, Vol. 86 (2) pp. 530-535.
2021 Koch, Sören, “Legal compilation in early modern Denmark and Norway – creatively recycling the law”, in Kjell Åke Modéer (ed.), Legal History: Reflecting the Past and the Present, Olin Foundation ISBN 978-91-86645-15-1, pp. 198-229.
2020 Koch, Sören, Grotius’ Impact on the Scandinavian Theory of Contract Law, Grotiania 41 (2020) 59-87 (Brill) doi:10.1163/18760759-04101004
2020 Koch, Sören, “An Introduction to German Legal Culture”, in: S. Koch et al. (eds), Comparing Legal Cultures, – Revised and expanded 2nd edition Fagbogforlag, p. 221-267. ISBN: 978-82-450-2091-6
2020 Koch, Sören, Marius Mikkel Kjølstad, Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde, “The Norwegian Legal Culture”, in S. Koch et al. (eds), Comparing Legal Cultures, – Revised and expanded 2nd edition Fagbogforlag, p. 105-148. ISBN: 978-82-450-2091-6.
2020 Koch, Sören, “The Outset, learning to sail the ocean of legal cultures” in S. Koch et al. (eds), Comparing Legal Cultures, – Revised and expanded 2nd edition Fagbogforlag, p. 17-22. ISBN: 978-82-450-2091-6.
2020 Koch, Sören, “Legal Culture and Comparative Law, ” in S. Koch et al. (eds), Comparing Legal Cultures, – Revised and expanded 2nd edition Fagbogforlag, p. 41-68. ISBN: 978-82-450-2091-6.
2020 Koch, Sören, “From Mapping to Navigation – A COMPASS-formula for conducting Comparative Analysis” in S. Koch et al. (eds), Comparing Legal Cultures – Revised and expanded 2nd edition Fagbogforlag, p. 71-103 ISBN: 978-82-450-2091-6.
2020 Koch, Sören, “Sailing – Analysing the Ideals of Justice in Germany, England and Norway”, in S. Koch et al. (eds), Comparing Legal Cultures – Revised and expanded 2nd edition Fagbogforlag, ISBN: 978-82-450-2091-6, 783- 802.
2020 Koch, Sören, Anna Klimazewska and Anna Machnikowska“Introduction to the Legal Culture of Poland, in S. Koch et al. (eds), Comparing Legal Cultures, – Revised and expanded 2nd edition Fagbogforlag, pp. 273-330 ISBN: 978-82-450-2091-6, 783- 802.
2020 Koch, Sören and Kristjan Mejrup,”The Enlightenment”, in Kjell Åke Modeer and John Witte, Law and The Christian Tradition in Scandinavia. The Writings of Great Nordic Jurists, Routledge, (Oct. 9th) pp. 153- 161. ISBN 978-0367-85824-7
2020 Koch, Sören, ”Natural Law and the struggle with pietism in eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway - Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754)”, in Kjell Åke Modeer and John Witte, Law and The Christian Tradition in Scandinavia. The Writings of Great Nordic Jurists, Routledge, (Oct. 9th) pp. 162-179. ISBN 978-0367-85824-7
2020 Koch, Sören, “Konfliktlösung in West-Skandinavien.“ in: W. Decock (Hrsg.), Konfliktlösung in der Frühen Neuzeit, Handbuch zur Geschichte der Konfliktlösung in Europa 3, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-56102-7_50 ISBN: 978- 3-662-56101-0;
2019 Koch, Sören, ”Frederic Carpenter Ljungqvist, Lagfäst Kungamakt under Högmedeltiden– en komparativ internordisk studie”, in Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap, Vol. 132/1 2019 p. 78-83; DOI: 10.18261/issn.1504-3096-2019-01-05.
2019 Koch, Sören, “Den ‘moderne resepsjonen’ - Internasjonaliseringen i undervisning og forskning mellom 1969 og 2003”, in Johan Giertsen (ed.), Bergens juridiske fakultet i 50 år, Fagbokforlaget, pp. 59-79, ISBN 978-82-450-2794-5.
2018 Koch, Sören, “Courts of Appeal in Norway”, in: Kjell Å Modéer and Martin Sunnqvist (eds.), Suum Cuique Tribuere. Legal Contexts, Judicial Archetypes and Deep-Structures regarding Courts of Appeal and Judiciaries from Early Modern to Late Modern Europe, Institutet för Rättshistorisk Forskning, p. 279-312, ISBN 978-91-86645-11-3.
2017 Koch, Sören, “An Introduction to German Legal Culture”, in: Koch, Søren; Skodvin, Knut Einar; Sunde, Jørn Øyrehagen. Comparing Legal Cultures. Fagbokforlaget, p 171-202. ISBN: 978-82-450-2091-5.
2017 Koch, Sören, “Peter Høilund: Naturret som samfundskritik.” Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap.Vol 130: p. 115-121. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3096-2017-01-08
2016 Koch, Sören, ”Jus naturae methodo scientifica pertractatum (Natural Law considered according to the Scientific Method) 1740-1748 Christian Freiherr VON WOLFF (1679-1754)” in Martyn, Georges. The Formation and Transmission of Western Legal Culture, Books that made the Law in the Western World. Springer Publishing Company. Nr. 81, p. 227-231. ISBN: 978-3-319-45564-8.
2016 Koch, Sören, ”Moralske Kierne eller Introduction til Naturens- og Folkerettens Kundskab, 1716, Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754)” in Martyn, Georges. The Formation and Transmission of Western Legal Culture, Books that made the Law in the Western World. Springer Publishing Company, Nr. 78, p. 249-252. ISBN: 978-3-319-45564-8.
2016 Koch, Sören. “Andreas Aure, The right to wage war (jus ad bellum): the German reception of Grotius 50 years after De iure belli ac pacis.” Comparative Legal History/ Hart Publishing, Oxford, p. 1-9. published 2016-10-20.doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2049677X.2016.1245043
2016 Koch, Sören. “Løfte og aksept - Naturrettens innflytelse på fortolkningen av NL 5-1-1 og 5-1-2 på 1700-tallet.” Tidsskrift for rettsvitenskap. Vol 129: p. 337-371. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3096-2016-04-01
2015 Koch, Sören, Consequences of changing expectations to law and its institutions Illustrated by the role and background of judges in Norway. 83 Legal History Review. p 461-486. doi: 10.1163/15718190-08334p06
2015 Koch, Sören, “Feras Gisawi, Der Grundsatz der Totalreparation, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck 2015, 299 Seiten.” Forum Historiae Iuris. Publisert 2015-12-10.
2014 Koch, Sören; Helland, Ingvill. “Comparing legal Methods – an Analytical Framework” in I. Helland and S. Koch, Nordic and Germanic Legal Methods, Mohr Siebeck, p. 1-19.
2014 Koch, Sören; Helland, Ingvill. “International Influences in Norwegian Legal Method” in I. Helland and S. Koch, Nordic and Germanic Legal Methods, Mohr Siebeck, pp 344-368.
2014 Koch, Sören; Helland, Ingvill. “Norwegian and German Legal Methods Compared: Similarities and Differences, their Reasons and Consequences”, in me. Helland and S. Koch, Nordic and Germanic Legal Methods, Mohr Siebeck. pp 267-324.
2014 Koch, Sören; Helland, Ingvill. “Introduction to Norwegian Legal Method”, in I. Helland and S. Koch, Nordic and Germanic Legal Methods, Mohr Siebeck pp. 99-140.
2013 Koch, Sören; Helland, Ingvill. “Methodischen Grundlagen der juristischen Entscheidungsfindung im norwegischen Recht“, Zeitschrift für Europäische Privatrecht (ZEuP) p. 585 – 618.
2013 Koch, Sören. „Nødverge i erstatningsretten - en analyse med utgangspunkt i Rt. 2012 s. 5”, Tidsskrift for erstatningsrett, forsikringsrett og velferdsrett. 10 p. 6-25.
2013 Koch, Sören. “Wettbewerbsrechtliche Implikationen beim ärztlichen Internetauftritt. Ist die Werbung mit Manueller Medizin/Osteopathie ein Wettbewerbsverstoss?”, Manuelle Medizin. 51: 58-64.
2012 Koch, Sören. “Holbergs naturrett sett fra et funksjonalt perspektiv.” In: Sejersted, Jørgen Magnus and Vinje, Eiliv. 2012. Ludvig Holbergs naturrett. Gyldendal Akademisk, p 78-95 ISBN: 9788205426061.
2012 Koch, Sören, “Erstatning for bortkastede utgifter”, Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap Vol. 125/5, p. 581-636.
2011 Koch, Sören, “Det erstatningsrettslige skadebegrepet - en sammenligning mellom tysk og norsk rett”, Tidsskrift for erstatningsrett, forsikringsrett og velferdsrett 7 p. 250-281.
Legal compilation in early modern Norway and Scotland (international, multidisciplinary and multidimensional research-cooperation between Bergen, Aberdeen, Oslo, Edinburgh, Oxford, Madrid, Frankfurt am Main and Vienna).
Urban property structures (cooperation with HVL/HF)
Digitalisation and Exploration of the court roles of the Hanseatic Contor in Bergen (interdisciplinary and international cooperation)
Hanseatic research meets international law: cooperation between University of Hamburg, University of Bergen, University of Tartu, University of Lund, University of Amsterdam and University of Frankfurt.
Instructor at the international and interdisciplinary reseach school 'Authoritative Texts and their Reception' (UiO, UiT,UiB)
Research group 'Form 1700' (UiB/HF)
Researchgroup 'Religion and Litterature'
