Top priority research areas
The Faculty has identified eight multidiciplinary reserach areas which are given top priority. These are:
- Constitutional Studies
- The Market, Innovation, and Technology
- Social Controll, and Rule of Law
- International Relations
- Natural Resources Law
- Law, Society and Historical Change
- Rights, Individuals, Culture and Society
- Human Rights and Development
Within each of these fields the Dean has appointed a Research Group. These groups have various host Departments, and are evaluated after a period of four years. By creating these Research Groups the Faculty wishes to strenghten cross diciplinary research, encourage good research leadership, provide a supportive research environment for junior and senior scholars, and generate platforms for externally funded research as well as participation in international academic networks.
Research strategy and aims
- To increase the extent and quality of the reasearch carried out at the Faculty
- To establish more projects that are externally funded
- To stimulate research fields that cross academic diciplins and national borders
- To publish more both nationally and internationally
- To encourage a more active and efficient research leadership
- To strenghten the Ph.D. program and include the Ph.D. candidates in all research activitiy at the Faculty