My research area is the national reception and production of EU law in the area between legal sociology, legal history and doctrinal law. I am currently working on a project on the conceptual history of handlingsrommet (the room for maneuver) in Norwegian EEA law. I work from a conflict-oriented perspective, where the struggles of different groups of jurists over social status and access to authoritatively determine applicable law is the starting point for understanding why the law is as it is.
In recent years, as part of the project Beyond European Legal Integration, I have co-organized a number of conferences in Oslo on the history of EU law within Member States. I am involved in editing a theme issue for European Law Open in extension of these, with expected publication in 2025 .
In my doctoral thesis, I undertook a comprehensive historical-sociological study of the reception of EU law in Denmark over half a century. I argue that Danish jurists' understanding of EU law has had relatively little to do with the EU's own narrative about constitutionalization and integration, but has rather been shaped by existing national power struggles between different groups of jurists. Theoretically, the thesis builds on the recent development of a post-Bourdieuian legal sociology of the European legal field, and develops this by applying a similar way of thinking to a national context.
I have previously worked with quantitative studies of the way the European Court of Human Rights refers to its own practice, and have published in Nordic and European journals on this topic.
I teach JUS3220 Legal History, JUS4122 Legal Sociology and HUMR5191 Human Rights Methodology: Research, Analysis and Thesis Preparation. I supervise master's theses in legal history, legal sociology and EU/EEA law.
At the University of Oslo, I participate in the research groups Law, society and historical change, Sociology of Law and the Research Group for International Law. I am also associated with the EURNOR project.
I hold a law degree (cand.jur/LL.M.) from the University of Copenhagen (2019) and a Ph.D. in law from the same place (2022). My postdoctoral position at the University of Oslo runs from 2023 to 2027. I am also employed as an associate professor at the Norway Inland University of Applied Sciences, currently in a 20% position while I am a postdoctoral fellow in Oslo. In addition, I am a Global Research Fellow at iCourts - Center of Excellence for International Courts at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.