Astrid is a guest researcher at the institute for private law from 2021-2025. She started as an Associate Professor in Law at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences in 2020. She is currently on leave to do research on central banks' expanding role in financial markets in times of crisis, in a joint research project between Inland University and the faculty of law at the University of Oslo, lead by Prof. Mads Andenæs.
Astrid holds a PhD (2020) and a Master of Law (2015) from the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. She has also studied banking and finance law at ESADE Law School/ Universitat Ramon Llull in Barcelona (2013) and been a Visiting Scholar at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge (2017).
Astrid does research within international economic law and financial market regulation. She is interested in regulatory frameworks governing States’ use of markets when seeking to ensure public goods, in particular in questions related to central banking, sovereign debt and debt crises, as well as sovereign immunity.
She has taught financial market regulation, theory of legal sources, law of obligations, public international law and tort law. She supervises master thesis on subjects related to international economic law and financial market law.