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The programme includes 4 presentations covering specific legal consequences of the war in Ukraine at different levels of the legal systems: international, EU and national.
The meeting is open, but we would appreciate if you would register your attendance. Please note: This will be a physical meeting only.

Lunch Seminar focusing on the regulation of shipping induced climate change in the Arctic, and on the market-based measures and the energy transition for international maritime transport.

Welcome to this seminar focusing on Elon Musk, the Law of the Sea and the development of outer space.
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Webinar held by Jørgen Bjørndalen, Principal Consultant at DNV's Energy systems division, and Camilla Berg, general counsel at Nord Pool AS.

Webinar held by Assistant Professor Lucila de Almeida.

Webinar held by Marco Pavesi.
Policy Officer - Market Monitoring, ACER, Electricity Department.

Øystein Børsum, Deputy Governor, Norges Bank, will give a lecture on Government Pension Fund Global - the management, the role of the Council on Ethics, the manner the Fund is regulated and operates in practice.

The University of Oslo, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, together with the University of Groningen and the Dutch Energy Law Association have the pleasure of inviting you to a mini-European Energy Law Seminar.

PhD candidate Julius Rumpf at the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law is presenting his PhD project for midway assessment.
You may attend by signing up for this webinar, please click the Zoom link below

Legal pathways towards climate neutrality and low carbon energy systems: Norwegian perspectives
Keep yourself updated with the latest EU energy law developments, deepen your knowledge and exchange experience with European colleagues.
See the full programme.
16 January 2020
The interest in autonomous ships has grown exponentially in the past few years. Only five or so years ago, the prospect of unmanned and autonomous vessels sailing on the seas was not considered to be realistic, while now the debate centers on when and in what format and pace the development will take place. Law has a key role to play in this development and legal obstacles are often singled out as principal barriers to a rapid introduction of new technologies in this field. In a few years autonomous ships has turned from a non-issue to one of the main regulatory topics being addressed at the International Maritime Organization (IMO), but the discussion is still in its infancy.
Increased reliance on automation for tasks that have traditionally been undertaken by ships' crews raises interesting legal question across the whole spectrum of maritime law. From the law of the sea and IMO Conventions, which are crucial for enabling autonomy to be introduced in the first place, to essentially any aspect of private maritime law, including transport contracts, collision, salvage and marine insurance, the development will entail fundamental alterations to current practices.

Registration (free) by deadline 16 May 2019
Seminar Series on Energy Market Design
The Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, Department of Petroleum and Energy Law, UiO, in cooperation with Energy Norway and Oslo Centre for Research on Environmentally friendly Energy (CREE), invites you to a new event in our seminar series on Energy Market Design. With two distinguished speakers, Prof. Leigh Hancher and Matthew Levitt, both from Baker Botts (Belgium), we will discuss the most recent developments in terms of case law, Commission’s practice and new legislative acts with influence on the shaping of energy market design in the EU.

Seminar on Electricity Market Design 4 April 2019
Program The seminar is free of charge, but registration is mandatory.
Registration deadline 29 March 2019
Introduction by Prof. Filippo Lorenzon, Faculty of Law, Dalian Maritime University (People Republic of China) and Campbell Johnston Clark Ltd, London.
Comments by Prof. Erik Røsæg, University of Oslo

Keep yourself updated with the latest EU energy law developments, deepen your knowledge and exchange experience with European colleagues.
17 January 2019

This seminar will seek to address some of the existing challenges for space law in the Norwegian, European and international perspective. We also wish to lay a foundation for future discussions of space law issues at the University of Oslo. Our speakers are Terje Wahl (Norwegian Space Center), Steven Freeland (Western Sydney University Law School), Alla Pozdnakova (Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law), Katrin Nyman Metcalf (International Relations Committee of the European Space Agency), Alexander Soucek (European Space Agency), Kirsten Ullbæk Selvig (Ministry of Transport, Norway) and Mari Amanda Eldholm (European Centre for Space Law).
The seminar is open, but requires registration (closed Dec 2nd)

The seminar will discuss the situation of migration in the Central Mediterranean from different legal perpectives.

Challenges and Opportunities for the Arctic and Beyond

In Norway, the parliamentary process has resulted in a broad public debate on what consequences an affiliation with the EU’s energy union and the energy agency ACER may have for Norwegian resource management.
Professor Tina Hunter, University of Aberdeen, will give a seminar on the topic.
19-20 FEBRUARY 2018 The University of Cape Town, South Africa and the University of Oslo, Norway, are pleased to present a two-day training course.