Journal articles - The Faculty of Law

SMART Reflections on Policy Coherence, Legal Developments in the Netherlands and the Case for EU Harmonisation

By Beate Sjåfjell, University of Oslo and Jeroen Veldman, City University of London

23 February 2022, Erasmus Law Review

Counter Corporate Litigation: Remedy, Regulation, and Repression in the Struggle for a Just Transition

By Mark B. Taylor, Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research

27 September 2021, Sustainability - Open Access Journal

By Beate Sjåfjell, University of Oslo.

21 April 2021, European Company and Financial Law Review

By Hanna Ahlström, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and David Monchiardini, University of Exeter Business School.

24 February 2021, Journal of Business Ethics

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Re-thinking producer responsibility for a sustainable circular economy from extended producer responsibility to pre-market producer responsibility

By Eléonore Maitre-Ekern, University of Oslo

9 December 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production

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Distributed ledgers, artificial intelligence and the purpose of the corporation

By Christopher M. Bruner.

7 December 2020, Cambridge Law Journal

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High-Frequency Trading as an Impediment to Long-Term and Sustainable Finance

- Identifying a Regulatory Gap that Can Put the Goals of the European Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth at Risk.

By Trude Myklebust, University of Oslo.

In Oslo Law Review

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Past and Future Work at the International Labour Organization: Labour as a Fictitious Commodity, Countermovement and Sustainability

By Tonia Novitz.

8 April 2020, International Organizations Law Review

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Fairness and Integrity in High-Frequency Markets – A Critical Assessment of the European Regulatory Approach

By Trude Myklebust.

February 2020, European Business Law Review

Sustainable supply chain management in a global context: a consistency analysis in the textile industry between environmental management practices at company level and sectoral and global environmental challenges

By María Jesús Muñoz-Torres, María Ángeles Fernández-Izquierdo, Juana María Rivera-Lirio, Idoya Ferrero-Ferrero og Elena Escrig-Olmedo.

8 May 2020, Environment, Development and Sustainability

Microfinance Institutions Fostering Sustainable Development by Region

By Icíar García-Pérez, María Ángeles Fernández-Izquierdo and María Jesús Muñoz-Torres.

29 March 2020, Sustainability Journal

Sustainability materiality matrices in doubt: may prioritizations of aspects overestimate environmental performance?

By Ferrero-Ferrero, I., León, R., & Muñoz-Torres, M. J.

13 July 2020, Taylor and Francis Online

Rethinking Non-Financial Reporting: A Blueprint for Structural Regulatory Changes

By David Monciardini, Jukka Mähönen and Georgina Tsagas.

7 August 2020, Accounting, Economics, and Law: A Convivium

Comprehensive Approach to Relevant and Reliable Reporting in Europe: A Dream Impossible?

By Jukka Mähönen, University of Oslo

30 June 2020, Sustainability - Open Access Journal

Sustainable Value Creation Within Planetary Boundaries—Reforming Corporate Purpose and Duties of the Corporate Board

By Beate Sjåfjell, University of Oslo

3 August 2020, Sustainability - Open Access Journal

Enhancing systems thinking in corporate sustainability through a transdisciplinary research process

By Hanna Ahlström, University of Oslo, Amanda Williams, Technology and Economics, ETH Zürich and Sigurd Sagen Vildåsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

20 May 2020, Journal of Cleaner Production

Integrated Reporting and Sustainable Corporate Governance from European Perspective

By Jukka Mähönen, University of Oslo

27 February 2020, The Journal of Accounting, Economics, and Law: A Convivium

How Company Law has Failed Human Rights – And What to Do about It

By Beate Sjåfjell, University of Oslo

8 June 2020, Business and Human Rights Journal, Cambridge University Press, published online by Cambridge University Press, https://doi.org/10.1017/bhj.2020.9.

Building Policy Coherence for Sound Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Management in a Developing Country

By Martin Oteng-Ababio, University of Ghana, Maja van der Velden and Mark B. Taylor, University of Oslo

14 January 2020, Journal of Environment & Development

Clash of Norms: Shareholder Primacy vs. Sustainable Corporate Purpose

By Beate Sjåfjell, University of Oslo, and Mark B. Taylor, Fafo

29 Aug 2019, International and Comparative Corporate Law Journal

Policy Hotspots for Sustainability: Changes in the EU Regulation of Sustainable Business and Finance

By Hanna Ahlström, University of Oslo

18 January 2019, Sustainability - Open Access Journal

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The Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global. Risk Based Versus Ethical Investments

By Heidi Rapp Nilsen, NTNU, Beate Sjåfjell, University of Oslo and Benjamin J. Richardsson, University of Tasmania

January 2019, Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung

According to the professors Beate Sjåfjell and Anita Halvorssen, the government must let the oil and the gas in the Arctic stay in the ground, if Norway is to comply with its national and international environmental commitments.

The Roles and Powers of the OECD National Contact Points regarding Complaints on an Alleged Breach of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

Juan Carlos Ochoa-Sanchez, “The Roles and Powers of the OECD National Contact Points regarding Complaints on an Alleged Breach of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises by a Transnational Corporation,” The Nordic Journal of International Law, Volume 84, Issue 1, 2015, pp. 89 – 126, DOI: 10.1163/15718107-08401006.

The positive effects of gender diversity in companies are well established. Why is the progress so slow?

Norway is one of the most egalitarian countries with a high level of gender equality and a high percentage of women at work. Nevertheless, as shown in this article, mandatory rules appeared necessary to bring about the desired change in the composition of the Boards.