Background
Marte Eidsand Kjørven (born 1982) is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. She holds a Master’s degree in Law (2007) and a PhD (2016).
Her doctoral thesis addresses legal questions related to the mis-selling of investment products to consumers, focusing on the liability of financial institutions for losses suffered by consumers investing in complex and high-risk products. The thesis analyses the content of the conduct of business rules under MiFID and their interaction with national rules on contract law and tort law.
From 2021 to 2025, Kjørven has served as project manager of the collaborative and multidisciplinary research project Societal Security and Digital Identities (SODI), funded by the Norwegian Research Council. The SODI project explores legal, technological and societal challenges linked to digital identity systems.
Special fields
Kjørven’s research lies at the intersection of financial law, contract and consumer law, with particular emphasis on digitalisation, fintech, fraud and identity misuse, and the interaction between EU financial market regulation and national private law. She has published extensively in both international and Norwegian outlets and is actively engaged in dissemination through public debate, lectures, and cross-sector collaboration.
Awards
In 2024, she was awarded the Rettssikkerhetsprisen for her work on legal protection in cases involving identity theft and fraud in digital financial services.