The Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo has climbed two places in the Times Higher Education world rankings and is now 34th among the world’s best universities for law.
In the project CRIMLIFE, prisoner life stories from around the world will help uncover the forces that drive and deter criminal paths.
– Law is one of society’s most important tools in the transformation to sustainability, says professor Beate Sjåfjell. She is the first member from the Faculty of Law in the Centre for Global Sustainability at UiO.
His Majesty the King has appointed Professor Emeritus Inge Lorange Backer as Knight 1st Class of The Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.
The European Research Council has awarded Nina Reiners, associate professor at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, the prestigious ERC Starting Grant for 2024.
The Student Inclusion Award helps to highlight initiatives within the faculty that promote diversity, inclusion, and non-discrimination. This year, the Law Students' Fosen Initiative received the award.
Every year, The Law Student Committee (JSU) awards "Undersvisningsprisen" to an accomplished educator at the faculty. The deserving recipient for 2023 was Associate Professor Stian Øby Johansen.
Master student, Rameen Najam Sheikh, was awarded the Prize for the best master's thesis on equality, inclusion and/or diversity. Four talented master students were nominated at the faculty for this award.
The Electoral Board announced this week the new Deanery for the period 2024-2027.
The Faculty of Law invites supervisors and examiners at the Faculty to nominate the best master’s thesis on the topic of racial discrimination.
Professor Dr. Christina Voigt dedicates her life and career to environmental law. This fall, she is organizing a high-level international conference on the transformative power of law.
The Faculty of Law strongly condemns the Russian invasion and war in Ukraine.
Voigt will be the chair of the Commission for the next four years. She intends to harness its international role and its global reach.
Diabetes, organ donation, consciousness, the immune system, evidence in rape cases, mental illnesses, medicinal plants and cancer. These are societal challenges that will be examined in interdisciplinary life science research groups at the University of Oslo.
