Background
Cand. Jur 1995. PhD 2019.
Katrine Kjærheim Fredwall is an associate professor at the Department of Private Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. She works with teaching and research in the areas of family law, inheritance law and personal law, etc.
Fredwall received her PhD in 2019 on the dissertation «Familieformuerettens korreksjonsmekanismer” (eng. The family property law's correction mechanisms), later published at Gyldendal in 2020, cf. below. Fredwall is responsible teacher in inheritance law and editor of Tidsskrift for familierett, arverett og barnevernrettslige spørsmål (the Norwegian Family Law journal).
Fredwall has been a law-maker in the Ministry of Justice. She has been in charge of a number of law making- project such as the project on the right to inheritance for cohabitants, a modern act on guardianship law, the rules on power of attorney and a new act on inheritance and division of the estate. Fredwall has worked 5 years in the Oslo-based law firm Thommessen, and in particular with competition law and intellectual property law. Fredwall has previously been a member of the law committee that led to NOU 2003: 21, as well as a member of the reference group for a new adoption law etc.
Fredwall is member of Coordinating Group of Family Law in Europe (FL-EUR). FL-EUR is an Academic network established in 2019. FL-EUR currently unites 36 prominent experts, both academics and public officers from 31 European jurisdictions. In addition to be part of the leading group of the Network, Fredwall is a country reporter on FL-EUR's first working field “Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults” which report is expected in the end of 2023.
She is a member of the Advisory board for Social Security and Digital Identities (SODI project). She has extensive experience from teaching students and lawyers and lawyers in private and public sector etc.
Special fields
- Family and Inheritance law
- Personal law