Previous events

The aim of the conference is to firmly establish sustainability law as an interdisciplinary, sustainability-oriented field of law, which can help break through barriers to sustainability and co-create and promote new possibilities for a safer and more just world.

We are thrilled to announce our Sustainability Law Week! Join us for an entire week devoted to sustainability law, to sustainability in law, and to intersections between law and sustainability.

This presentation shares collaborative fieldwork and activist research conducted in 2025 with Tanzanian environmental advocates Baraka Machumu (GreenFaith Africa), Baraka Lenga (GreenFaith Tanzania) and Luca Tenreira (European University Institute) along the route of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).

In this seminar, Environmental Lawyer Ifigeneia Tsakalogianni presents her ongoing doctoral research, proposing a three-stage regulatory architecture for addressing PFAS across their lifecycle.

In this seminar, Victoria Skeie and Beate Sjåfjell will present their work-in-progress paper for the Daughters of Themis workshop 2026 ‘Where is Justice in Corporate Sustainability?’.

In this joint Centre for Global Sustainability and Sustainability Law seminar, Eléonore Maitre-Ekern presents lessons from the past and visions for the future in shaping a sustainable circular economy.

In this seminar we discuss how goals, targets, indicators and metrics attempt to shape policy and practice, and how such tools in turn shape theories of governance.

Join us online to dive into the latest on sustainability reporting and other EU corporate accountability laws post-Omnibus and what’s next!

In this seminar, Professor Sjåfjell invites discussion of how Corporate Sustainability Law and the interdisciplinary approach to law that informs this field can contribute to research and teaching at the Centre for Global Sustainability.

In this Sustainability Law lunch seminar, Giulia Petrachi, Doctoral Research Fellow in the ToNoWaste project at the Department of Private Law, University of Oslo, presents the second article of her thesis, examining whether European food waste laws align with food discount practices.

We are excited to announce the Launch of Marija Bartl’s monograph, Reimagining Prosperity: Toward a New Imaginary of Law and Political Economy in the EU. Join us at Kjerka for this special event!

The topic of this year’s Sustainability Law PhD Seminar is hope in times of uncertainty, reflecting the research agenda and the ambitions of our Research Group. The seminar is hybrid, welcoming participants in Oslo as well as through zoom.

How are sustainability challenges conceptualized, labelled, and articulated? How do such forms of knowledge production impact the solutions we can perceive and the actions we can envisage? Meet Sarah Cornell from Stockholm Resilience Centre and Hil Vandeskog from UiO in this hybrid seminar.

Dinie Suryadini Mukti Arief at Norwegian Centre for Human Rights will give a trial lecture on the prescribed topic, entitled: Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence in Asia.

In this seminar, Beate Sjåfjell invites colleagues and friends to discuss her outline for a monograph on Corporate Sustainability Law.

In this Sustainability Law digital lunch seminar, Prof. Dr. Mirjana Drenovak-Ivanović, Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, Jean Monnet Chair in European Environmental and Climate Change Law, will present on the topic 'From Compliance to Transformation: How EU Sustainability Legislation Shapes Legal Reforms in Candidate Countries for EU Membership'

As a part of her ongoing work on her book project on Corporate Sustainability Law, Beate Sjåfjell will present her reflections on the evolving duty of the corporate board, positioning the Omnibus proposal in the broader regulatory framework of Corporate Sustainability Law.

In this Sustainability Law digital lunch seminar, Professor Cecilia M. Bailliet, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo and UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity, invites participants to discuss her Call for Input for the upcoming UN General Assembly report on Corporations and International Solidarity.

PhD candidate Giulia Petrachi, Department of Private Law, will present her PhD project: "From Dumpster Diving to Circular Economy - Cocreation of new policies and guidelines for fostering the change".

Join us for an afternoon seminar with Giulia Petrachi, PhD student at the University of Oslo, as she presents her research on "Do Buy-one-get-one-free schemes reduce waste? Modelling Optimal Value Creation for Retailers and Consumers in Food Waste Reduction Initiatives in Norway".

Join the discussion with Dr. Klaas H. Eller (University of Amsterdam) and Dr. Jaakko Salminen (Lund University) as they present their initial reflections on the EU Omnibus Proposal.

Join us for a digital lunch seminar with Ioannis Kampourakis, Associate Professor in Law and Markets at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He will present his paper "Post-Neoliberal European Order? Public Purpose and Private Accumulation in Green Industrial Policy."

Join us for an engaging afternoon seminar with Nedim Hogic, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, presenting on the topic ‘Critical Raw Materials in Wider Europe’.

Welcome to our digital afternoon seminar, where Professor Beate Sjåfjell from the University of Oslo, will present from her ongoing work on Corporate Sustainability Law.