Martine S. B. Lie

Doctoral Research Fellow

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Email m.s.b.lie@jus.uio.no

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Visiting address Kristian Augusts gate 17 Domus Juridica 8.etg 0164 OSLO

Postal address Postboks 6706 St. Olavs plass 0130 OSLO

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Academic interests

Martine has broad experience in green criminology. Her PhD Project Large predator management versus the intrinsic value of animals is part of the larger project Criminal justice, wildlife Conservation and animal rights in the Anthropocene (CRIMEANTHROP). She investigates how Norway's management of wolves, brown bears, wolverines and lynx adapts to the Bern Convention, and how it influences the animals. This is done through observation of court cases on large predator hunts and analysis of verdicts from such cases, as well as in-depth interviews with judges and police.

Courses taught

Martine teaches on KRIM2000 Central theoretical perspectives and KRIM2960/4960 Green Criminology, and has taught on KRIM1300 and KRIM2101 earlier semesters. She is also supervising a master student in political science.

Background

Martine holds a master's degree in criminology from the University of Oslo. In her master's project she investigated the enforcement and consequences of the Norwegian breed ban on “dangerous dogs”, based on in-depth interviews with police and dog owners. Green criminological perspectives, police research, labelling and risk theory were central in the analysis of the findings.

After graduating, Martine taught seminar groups for bachelor students in criminology, and organised a research seminar at the Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law on animal police units in Nordic countries. She also worked as a political adviser in The Norwegian Animal Protection Alliance (Dyrevernalliansen) for several years.

Appointments

Martine is leader of the PhD Council of the Faculty of Law 2021, and represents the temporary staff at the faculty in the Faculty Board. She is also deputy representative in the Programme Committee for Research Training (PFF), where she was representative in 2020.

Martine has refereed for the International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy and ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies.

Tags: Criminology, international and European environmental law, green criminology, animal protection, animal welfare, agricultural policy

Lie, Martine S. B. (2021). “Humane Theriocides”: Traces of Compassion for Animals in the Norwegian Legal Discourse on Illegal Bear and Wolf Killings. Revista Catalana de Dret Ambiental. ISSN 2014-038X. XII(1) . doi: https://doi.org/10.17345/rcda3085 Show summary
Wolves and brown bears are critically endangered in Norway. Their population is approximately 110 and 150 individuals, respectively, and is kept at these low numbers through licensed hunts. These animals are also vulnerable to illegal theriocides (killings of animals by humans), which poses a considerable threat to the species’ survival. The theriocides also harm individual animal victims and impinge on their intrinsic value. This article assesses whether a consideration of harm to the individual animals is part of the Norwegian courts’ problem definition and discourse order concerning such illegal hunts by developing and conducting a “critical green victimological discourse analysis” of verdicts. Moreover, the courts’ portrayals of the victims are assessed—by asking the question: do they acknowledge them as such, or continue the speciesist ideology of the Anthropocene, seeing animals mainly as commodities and components of nature?
Lie, Martine Synnøve Bergersen (2017). «Stepdogs» of Society: The Impact of Breed Bans in Norway. Critical Criminology. ISSN 1205-8629. 25(2), s 293- 309 . doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-017-9364-9 Show summary
Drawing on qualitative interviews with dog owners and police officers, this article discusses the ban against "dangerous dogs" in Norway. The Norwegian breed ban in The Dog Regulation (hundeforskriften) is shown to have considerable negative influence on affected dogs’ lives, even if their owners do their best to compensate for this. Labeling, stigmatization and risk of confiscation by the police has restricted aspects of the dogs’ lives, such as by complicating their opportunities to be with fellow species. The impact of breed-specific legislation on dogs is analyzed from a critical, anti-speciesist perspective, which sees modern Western societies and their judicial systems as characterized by an inherent discriminatory culture and order. This oppression entails both differential treatment of disadvantaged humans’ and humans’ repressive and differentiating attitudes and actions towards other animals.

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Groseth, Julie; Cissé, Mariam & Lie, Martine S. B. (2020, 21. august). Kommentarfeltet koker etter sak om dyremishandling. [Internett]. NRK.
Lie, Martine S. B. (2020). A Critical Green Criminological Assessment of the Norwegian Breed Ban on "Dangerous Dogs".
Lie, Martine S. B. (2020). An assessment of NGOs’ use of “lawfare” as a strategy to ensure compliance with the Bern Convention and protection of endangered large predators in Norway.
Lie, Martine S. B. (2019, 01. februar). Avvikling av pelsdyrnæringen er en vinnersak. Morgenbladet.
Lie, Martine S. B. (2019, 12. juni). Mattilsynet må først og fremst styrkes!. Nationen.
Lie, Martine S. B. (2019, 08. mars). Redusert kjøttproduksjon og -forbruk er sentralt for bedre dyrevelferd. Nationen.
Lie, Martine S. B. (2019, 08. august). Verdens beste dyrevelferd?. Dagsavisen.
Lie, Martine Synnøve Bergersen (2019). Large predator management versus the intrinsic value of animals.
Lie, Martine S. B. (2018, 28. juli). Bort med statlig kjøttreklame!. Klassekampen.
Lie, Martine S. B. & Hanna, Lunde (2018, 15. februar). Dyrepoliti med uomtvistelig potensial. Dagsavisen.
Lie, Martine S. B. (2017, 16. juni). Et dyr er ikke en ting. Klassekampen.
Lie, Martine S. B. (2017, 14. desember). «Hele grunnlaget til Matprat er utdatert». Nationen.
Lie, Martine S. B. (2017, 24. juli). Intervju på NRK Østlandssendingen om dumping av kjæledyr og dyrepoliti. [TV]. NRK.
Lie, Martine S. B. (2017, 20. desember). Tåkeprat om Matprat. Nationen.
Lie, Martine Synnøve Bergersen (2017). Dyr i Loven. Individer eller objekter?. Samtiden. ISSN 0036-3928. 125(2), s 22- 26
Sollund, Ragnhild & Lie, Martine Synnøve Bergersen (2017). Speciesism and theriocide, In The Routledge Companion to Criminological Theory and Concepts. Routledge. ISBN 9781138819009. Kapittel.

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Projects

CRIMEANTHROP

Research groups

The Research Group in Natural Resources Law