Sören Koch
- E-postsoren.koch@uib.no
- Telefon+47 55 58 95 37+4795984843
- BesøksadresseMagnus Lagabøte plass 15020 BergenRom447
- PostadressePostboks 78065020 Bergen
Legal Realism as the regulatory foundation of Norwegian and Nordic Law in the 21st century? Network project financed by the NRC
Regulering av aktiv dødshjelp i Norge i lys av internasjonal og utenlandsk rett - Physically assisted suicide - a comparative approach
National Rapporteur for the Association of Comparative Law: Rights of Nature; Assisted Suicide
Comparative law and legal cultural studies (Comparing Legal Cultures, 2nd ed. 2020, Handbook on Legal Cultures, Springer 2023)
Hanseatiske rettsprotokoller - Kontorenes organisasjon og funksjon - rettslig institusjonalisering (in cooperation with prof. Geir Atle Ersland og Stadtarkiv i Lübeck, Stadtarchiv in Köln, Kildeskriftkommisjonen, Nasjonalbiblioteket) - Court roles of the Hanse Kontor in Bergen - transcription and analysis.
The Governance dimension of the Hanse (Cooperation with the University of Hamburg, Lund, Tartu, Bergen and Amsterdam)
Kompilation som metode for produksjon av autoritative rettsllige tekster (Søknad: Groundbreaking research and Social, Culture and Welfare)
Hugo Grotius influence on the legal doctrine of the 16th and 17th century (Leuven)
Regulating timbertrade in Western Norway in the 16th to 18th century (Cooperation UiO, UiB, University of Aberdeen).
Teaching Legal History - Strategies and Purposes - A Comparative Study with Focus on the Nordics
UiB - Innsikt serie - populærvitenskapelig innlegg med paneldebatt 11.12.2021 - Det hanseatiske Kontor - en rettshistorie
Innsikt Juridika - 10.12.2020 Hva er rettskulturell kunnskap og hvorfor trenger jurister det https://juridika.no/innsikt/rettskulturell-kunnskap
Innsikt Juridika - 3. juni 2021 Den tyske klimadommen viser at domstolene kan hjelpe politikerne å handle langsiktig om klima https://juridika.no/innsikt/den-tyske-klimadommen
British Association for Comparative Law - Blogg 19.03.21 Comparing Legal Cultures
Podkast Universitet Tromsø - 7. Okt 2020 https://soundcloud.com/jussjaass/juss-jass-episode-12
Podkast University of Bergen - Corpus Juris Civilis
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung - FAZ - Einspruch November 2019
https://www.faz.net/-irf-9tig4?premium=0xb7bc979ea776db1689ae3f7c5598ca39&GEPC=s3
My undergraduates/postgraduates courses
1. Exploring the Norwegian Legal Culture (non-mandatory introductory course for undergraduate students)
2. JUS 290-2-A Comparing Legal Cultures in Europe
3. JUS 134 Rettskultur, rettshistorie og komparativ rett (Legal Culture, Legal History and Comparative Law)
4. JUS 134 V-18 KINA - Legal Culture, Legal History and Comparative Law
5. JUS 297-2-A - Comparative european Constitutional Law
Teacher / Evaluator
5. JUS 121 NIRI (National and International legal Institutions)
6. JUS 399 Masteroppgaver (Master-studies)
7. JUS 397 Research-line
External teaching:
Teacher, honours course (European Legal History), Universität Bonn, Germany
Teacher, undergraduate course (Comparative Law), Universitet i Tromsø, Norway
Teacher, honours course (forskerlinje), University of 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 Zurich, Switzerland
- (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). The Reception of Grotius’ Contract Law in Scandinavia.
- (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). International Workshop on the History of Commercial Law - Approaches and Methodological Challenges - Concluding remarks.
- (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). Johann Gottfried Heineccius som kompilator.
- (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.
Se fullstendig oversikt over publikasjoner i CRIStin.
TRACK RECORD: PUBLICATIONS
Total: 4 monographies, 5 edited volume of collected papers, 32 articles/book chapters, 8 reviews
Monographies:
2023 Koch Sören, The Norwegian Legal System and Culture in a nutshell, Gyldendal (app. 200 pages)
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, Leidulf Melve, Anna Elisa Tryti, Eigedom og Historie, Fagbokforlaget (forthcoming).
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 ca. 1400 p. (forthcoming)
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, 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, Er det Bergenske kontor underlagt 'Lübisches Recht'?, Koch, Sören, Leidulf Melve, Anna Elisa Tryti (red), Eigedom og Historie,(forthcoming).
2023 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, „How to teach comparative law – a new approach based on interactive learning-strategies”, Rabel Journal for Comparative Law (forthcoming 12 p.)
2023 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.
2023 Koch, Sören and Geir Atle Ersland, "The origin and excercise of self-governnace and internal jurisdiction of the Hanseatic Contor in Bergen", in The Hanseatic History Review, HGBl. Vol. 141 (forthcoming).
Reviewed and accepted:
2023 Koch, Sören and Kjølstad, Marius Mikkel, Legal Culture - diversity and structure, in idem (eds), Springer Handbook for Legal Cultures, Springer Nature, Chapter 1, ISBN 978-3-031-27744-3.
2023 Koch, Sören, Review Jan Schröder, Recht als Wissenschaft, 3rd edition, 2020 C.H. Beck, Legal History Review, Vol. 90 (2) (forthcoming).
2023 Koch Sören, Review: Andreas Harald Aure, Ludvig Holberg Rettskunnskap, Vidarforlaget 2021, 463 p., in Edda Vol @ 2023 (forthcoming).
2023 Koch Sören, "Norway", in Jan Smits (ed.), Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, 3rd ed. Edvard Elgar Publishing 2023 (forthcoming), 12 p.
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, "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 Andrew R.R Simpson and Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde (ed.), Scottish and Norwegian relations and communalities, 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. pp. 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 I. 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.
Natural Rights and the Rights of Nature, National Rapporteur for the Convention of Comparative Law, together with Esmeralda Colombo and Catalina Vallejo Piedrahita
Comparing legal methods in Europe (international research-network in cooperation with Ingvill Helland (UiA/Norway)
Ludvig Holbergs Naturrett (digital textutgave)
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).
Eiendomsgrenser i Bergen (tverrfaglig samarbeid med forskningsgruppe for Eiendomsrett i Bergen)
Digitalisation and Exploration of the court roles of the Hanseatic Contor in Bergen (interdisciplinary and international cooperation)
Public Governance Dimension of the Hanse (collaboration with the Universities of Lillehammer, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Göttingen, Lund and Tartu)
Springer's Handbook of Legal Cultures (editor together with Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde and Marius Mikkel Kjølstad) - Mapping legal Cultures of the world
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'