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Anine Kierulf (1974) focuses on free speech, human rights and constitutional law. She has since 2020 been associate professor at the UiO Departement of Public and International Law, and is the UiO chair of Constitutional Law 2020-2024 and 2024-2028.
Kierulf holds a cand.jur. from UiO and an LL.M. from Northwestern University (2001) and was admitted to the Norwegian Bar in 2003. Her experience inlcudes serving as free speech consultant to the Council of Europe (2002-2007), deputy judge in Ringerike district court (2004-2006, 2014), lawyer and senior lawyer in the media and litigation departement of Schjødt law firm in Oslo (2001-2009) and judge on Borgarting Court of Appeals (2024).
In 2010 she was a visiting researcher at University of Chicago. Her dissertation "Judicial review in Norway - a Bicentennial Debate", Cambridge University Press, 2018 focuses on the democratic role of courts in the Norwegian legal system.
From 2017-2020 Kierulf was Research Director at the Norwegian Human Rights Institution (NHRI), where she now serves as Special Advisor.
In 2021-22 Kierulf chaired a government commission analyzing challenges to free speech in academia, resulting in the report NOU 2022:2 Academic freedom of expression.
Kierulf regularly serves as an advisor to the public and private sector, and is a frequently used legal commentator in Norwegian and international media, particularly in the area of free speech.
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Research areas
Constitutional law and the role of courts, free speech, human rights, criminal law.