This article critically examines fundamental aspects of the recently reformed European regime for protection of personal data, focusing on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) adopted by the European Union (EU) ...

Artikkelen tar opp spørsmål foranlediget av Gjenopptakelseskommisjonens avgjørelse i Baneheia-saken, som med dissens 3–2 gjenåpnet straffesaken mot Viggo Kristiansen. Først presenteres en analyse av gjenåpningsvurderingen ...

Abstract The status of trade union rights in the EU has been contentious since the CJEU sent shockwaves through the trade unions of Europe in December 2007 with its rulings in the cases of Viking and Laval . In its recent ...

The Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Act 2018 is Australia’s latest attempt at solving the ‘going dark’ debate. Yet, like many other regulatory attempts towards ameliorating the ...

Kvinne-, kjønns- og likestillingsperspektiver på retten har en lang tradisjon som forskningsfelt på Det juridiske fakultet ved Universitetet i Oslo. Retten regulerer rettigheter og plikter, rettsvern og straff – den kan ...

Human behaviour is increasingly governed by automated decisional systems based on machine learning (ML) and ‘Big Data’. While these systems promise a range of benefits, they also throw up a congeries of challenges, not ...

Artikkelen diskuterer hvilket rom det er for å supplere varemerkeloven med regler om rettstap som følge av passivitet på ulovfestet grunnlag. Etter varemerkeloven kan merkehavers unnlatelse av å bruke et varemerke føre til ...

My starting point is institutional theory. Institutions consist both of norms and knowledge. According to economic historian Douglass C. North, beliefs are a key to building a foundation to understand the process of change. ...

Denne boka er eit resultat av eit fireårig tverrfagleg forskingsprosjekt, PlanCoast, finansiert av Norges Forskningsråd. Ein raud tråd i prosjektet har vore konseptet om ei integrert kystsoneforvaltning gjennom kommunal ...

In their efforts to curb the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries have introduced contact tracing apps installed on mobile phones with the aim of breaking chains of infection. This raises ethical and legal questions, as these ...

There is an assumption that the use of fines as an enforcement tool will have a deterrent effect and lead to compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This article gives a critical analysis of the ...

Abstract Discretion gives decision makers choices as to how resources are allocated, or how other aspects of state largesse or coercion are deployed. Discretionary state power challenges aspects of the rule of law, first ...

According to Opinion 1/17, the ISDS mechanism contained in CETA is in conformity with the fundamental requirement of art. 20 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights that “everyone is equal before the law”. The assessment rests ...

Artikkelen knytter kritiske kommentarer til straffeloven § 136 a og HR-2018-1650-A, og særlig til forståelsen av vilkåret om deltakelse i en terrororganisasjon samt spørsmålet om brudd på flere av straffebestemmelsens ...

Artikkelen gir en historisk redegjørelse for begrensninger i slektsarveretten og endringene i arveretten for barn født utenfor ekteskap og barn som er adoptert i Norden, i de siste hundre årene. Avslutningsvis settes ...

Background The governance structures associated with health data are evolving in response to advances in digital technologies that enable new ways of capturing, using, and sharing different types of data. Increasingly, ...

COVID-19 has shown that international collaborations and global data sharing are essential for health research, but legal obstacles are preventing data sharing for non–pandemic-related research among public researchers ...

Background Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) is a well-established technique to elicit individual preferences, but it has rarely been used to elicit governance preferences for health data sharing. Objectives The aim ...

Background: Digital technological development in the last 20 years has led to significant growth in digital collection, use, and sharing of health data. To maintain public trust in the digital society and to enable acceptable ...

Background: Unhealthy food is one of the main risk factors for non-communicable diseases. Improved knowledge about healthy and sustainable food products requires nutrition research in collaboration between universities and ...

Vi lever i en tid da «kunstig intelligens» og andre nye digitale teknologier får stor oppmerksomhet. Det kan få oss til å glemme at rettslivet og mye av samfunnet ellers allerede er gjennomdigitalisert, og at det er den ...

This article considers various factors that will shape the potential effect of the Council of Europe's modernised Convention on data protection (Convention 108+) on non-European states’ regulatory policy. It does so by ...

The existing studies of mutual organizations help us understand what it means at the strategic level for an insurance company to be owned by its customers. At the same time, there is limited literature illustrating what ...

Artikkelen tar for seg hvilke krav som må stilles for å aktivere det strenge forsettsansvaret for BankID-opplysninger på avveie etter gjeldende og kommende finansavtalelov.

Purpose This paper explores and identifies customer-value-related sacrifices that consumers attach to interactive health/life insurance. This paper aims to increase understanding of why individual consumers are not ...

Artikkelen analyserer skyldkravet i konkurranseretten med bakgrunn i strafferetten og forvaltningsretten. Fremstillingen viser at skyldkravet etter konkurranseloven står i en spenning mellom formuleringen av skyld i EU- ...

This paper addresses the interplay between robots, cybersecurity, and safety from a European legal perspective, a topic under-explored by current technical and legal literature. The legal framework, together with technical ...

Abstract This Article explores the similarities between the principles which guide the judiciary nowadays and those typical for the functioning of the Communist justice system, particularly the susceptibility to obedience ...

Recently, ‘security by design’ has surfaced as an aspirational mantra in cybersecurity regulation and policy. It urges those involved in building information systems to consider the systems’ security needs before they are ...

Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic creates an unprecedented threatening situation worldwide with an urgent need for critical reflection and new knowledge production, but also a need for imminent action despite prevailing ...

Corporate reporting and governance are interlinked: Accounting and reporting inventions created the modern company, and without the modern company there is no entity from which to report. Due to its raison d’etre, reporting ...

Artikkelen er den siste i en serie av tre metodiske domskritikker. Gjennom en kritisk vurdering av HR-2017-2352-A Prostitusjonsinntekter, om erstatningsrettslig vern for fremtidige prostitusjonsinntekter, tematiseres ...

Nye tilknytningsformer, blant annet i den digitale plattformøkonomien, aktualiserer spørsmålet om visse oppdragstakere skal kunne forhandle tariffavtaler. Adgangen til å forhandle tariffavtaler i norsk rett er ikke skarpt ...

Artikkelen er den første i en serie av tre metodiske domskritikker. Gjennom en kritisk vurdering av HR-2016-1240-A Zachariasbryggen I, om fastsettelse av vederlag for bygninger ved avvikling av tomtefeste, tematiseres ...

Artikkelen er den andre i en serie av tre metodiske domskritikker. Gjennom en kritisk vurdering av Rt. 2010 s. 1361, om verdsettelse av borett for gjenlevende ved overdragelse av fast eiendom fra uskifte, tematiseres ...

In A Cosmopolitan Legal Order: Kant, Constitutional Justice and the European Convention on Human Rights, Alec Stone Sweet and Clare Ryan argue that there has been the emergence of, and increasing prospects for, a cosmopolitan ...

Social enterprises have gained importance in European and national policies in recent years. There is a growing awareness that they create sustainable and inclusive growth and stimulate social innovation. Moreover, the ...

Business, and the dominant legal form of business, that is, the corporation, must be involved in the transition to sustainability, if we are to succeed in securing a safe and just space for humanity. The corporate board ...

Over the past decades, financial markets have been fundamentally transformed by technological advances in combination with regulatory and institutional change. This has produced highly competitive and fragmented financial ...

The Norwegian social security scandal concerns the right to export sickness benefits pursuant to EU Regulation 883/2004 on the Coordination of Social Security Systems. The Regulation is binding in Norway due to its membership ...

Olympic Games do not happen in a vacuum or a sports bubble. They are embedded in both local and global realities of a social, economic, and environmental nature. Environmental factors, in particular, have impacted the ...

According to the Cadbury Committee (1992) classical definition, corporate governance is ‘the system by which companies are directed and controlled.’ In the Cadbury Report and in other mainstream corporate governance codes, ...

Abstract The article introduces the thematic issue of Accounting, Economics, and Law: A Convivium dedicated to the regulation of non-financial reporting. It provides the reader with an overview of the varying ...

In two judgments, the European Court of Justice has stated that regulations are directly applicable under the EEA Agreement and automatically become part of the internal legal order of the EEA EFTA States.The EFTA Court ...

Online financial fraud targeted at consumers through phishing attacks and identity theft, for example, is a growing problem. Because it can be difficult to recover losses from the person who committed the fraud, the loss ...

When we speak of judges who judge for Utopia, we speak about judges today who pursue a better world through their judging. In this contribution, it is argued that a judiciary that is actively engaged in making the world a ...

Fallittforetak, det vil si foretak som trer ut av et marked på grunn av akutte økonomiske vanskeligheter, reiser en rekke konkurranserettslige spørsmål. I artikkelen problematiseres blant annet anvendelsen av foretakssam ...

Meierhenrich’s book is an important book. For those seeking to learn about law under Nazism, it gives an excellent introduction. It is also highly relevant to the understanding of the general relationship between law and ...

This chapter takes the negotiations between suppliers and grocery chains as a starting point and discusses its impact on competition at the retail level. The aim is to analyse the potential for regulatory intervention, ...

Sustainability is no longer a peripheral topic for most corporations, as they increasingly adopt more proactive business strategies. In spite of this, there has not been sufficient positive change in corporate practice and ...

Twentieth-century cartel registers, operated in a number of countries predominantly from around 1950 to the early 1990s, are a new international field of research. Such registers provide empirical data for research in a ...

La pandemia de COVID-19 ha generado en todo el mundo una amenaza sin precedentes que no solo impone la urgente necesidad de reflexionar críticamente y de producir nuevo conocimiento, sino que también exige la acción ...

Purpose Phenotype information is crucial for the interpretation of genomic variants. So far it has only been accessible for bioinformatics workflows after encoding into clinical terms by expert dysmorphologists. Methods Here, ...

This article revisits Greece’s 2012 debt restructuring, focusing on the legal changes and litigation that arose in relation to it in order to shed light on what kind of restructuring we may see next, in both Greece and the ...

Tilgjengeliggjort i DUO vitenarkiv med tillatelse fra Cappelen Damm.

This chapter concludes the Handbook, returning to the research questions set out in the introduction. Drawing from the various contributions to the Handbook, this concluding chapter assesses the mismatch between global ...

Artikkelen presenterer byggesteinene i bevisvurderingens rettslige rammer. Den redegjør for det rettslige bevistemaet og beviskravet, for sondringen mellom den rettslige og den argumentative bevisbyrden samt bevisføringsbyrden, ...

Spørsmålet om når reisetid skal anses som arbeidstid, har stor praktisk betydning i arbeidsforhold. Tross en nylig avsagt dom fra Høyesterett hersker det uenighet og usikkerhet om arbeidstidsbegrepets innhold etter ...

The new Consumer Sales Directive (2019/771 EU) is a total harmonisation directive intended to make cross-border sales more attractive to sellers by ensuring that the level of consumer‑protection rules differs less among ...

Med debatten om HR-2018-1130-A som bakteppe tar artikkelen opp sider av problemet om kravets identitet – spørsmålet om når to krav skal anses identiske etter rettskraftens avvisningsregel i tvisteloven § 19-15 (3). ...

Artikkelen undersøker den rettslige status til avtaler inngått i utlandet om muslimske brudegaver (mahr) når slike avtaler søkes oppfylt gjennom det norske rettssystemet. Artikkelen vektlegger spørsmål av internasjonal ...

While theory offers important insights into property’s normative content, it sometimes fails to tell us about what people understand property to mean and how they interact with those things said to be owned by them. This ...

Artikkelen tar for seg reglene om virkningene for foreldelse av fordringshaverens skritt til inndrivelse som ikke fører til realitetsavgjørelse om fordringen, og den gir en rettssystematisk analyse av om reglene gir klare ...

Konkurranseloven § 16 pålegger Konkurransetilsynet å gripe inn mot konkurranseskadelige foretakssammenslutninger, og slikt inngrep krever en prediksjon av foretakssammenslutningens virkninger. Utfallet beror på de godtgjorte ...

To ensure sustainable development, there is not only a need to re-think how the economic playing field is structured, but also the regulatory system that governs it. Business and finance law reforms will represent a crucial ...

Artikkelen behandler ekteskapsloven § 59 tredje ledd og retten til å skjevdele også det som er skapt underveis i ekteskapet, der sterke grunner tilsier det. Det er ofte pekt på at det er en høy terskel for å anvende ...

This paper1 discusses the need for legal measures to ensure a higher degree of investor protection against closet indexing. ‘Closet indexing’ refers to practices where a fund claims to attempt to beat the market, despite ...

In recent years, privacy has started to attract considerable attention in competition discussions, particularly in mergers involving data-rich industries. Prime examples of such mergers include Google/DoubleClick, ...

The board has a crucial role in determining the strategy and the direction of the corporation. However, currently the function of the corporate board is constrained through the social norm of shareholder primacy, reinforced ...

The EEA EFTA States are the only non-EU States that have been allowed, on a regular basis, to participate in the work of EU agencies governing the internal market. Participation in the work of an agency does not include ...

The Anglo-American debate on the philosophical foundations of tort law has inspired Nordic tort scholars to scrutinise national tort law in new ways over the past decade. This article argues that Norwegian scholarship has ...

Nordic countries have their own variations of the same corporate law theme, based on equality between shareholders and minority protection. However, U.S.-style shareholder primacy has influenced corporate practices, legal ...

traditional response to information asymmetries in financial markets has been to require disclosure and heightened transparency in investment chains. We argue in this chapter that the trust placed in such regulatory ...

Biobanks have evolved, and their governance procedures have undergone important transformations. Our paper examines this issue by focusing on the perspective of the professionals working in management or scientific roles ...

Fullfunksjonsvilkåret i felleseuropeisk og norsk konkurranserett fremkommer av legaldefinisjonen av foretakssammenslutningsbegrepet. Det følger derav at også opprettelser av selvstendig fungerende (fullfunksjons) fellesforetak ...

International policy and law have long sought to ensure that states regulate the negative impacts of production processes on people and the planet. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 targets sustainable production and ...

Arbeidstakerbegrepet har gjennomgått en vesentlig utvikling de seneste årene. Artikkelen identifiserer sentrale utviklingstrekk og drøfter implikasjonene av disse fra et norsk ståsted. Begrepet avgrenser anvendelsesområdet ...

The Nazi regime had loyal judges who willingly transformed the liberal German law into an instrument of oppression, discrimination and genocide. This was achieved without substantially interfering with the operation of the ...

The blockchain technology has evolved beyond traditional payment solutions in the finance sector and offers a potential for transforming many sectors including the public sector. The novel integration of technology and ...

Artikkelen drøfter om domstolene, i saker om statsansattes stillingsvern, har kompetanse til å avveie virksomhetens behov mot individuelle rimelighetshensyn. Forfatteren argumenterer for at slik rimelighetsprøvelse er det ...

Prinsippet om objektiv tolkning er det sentrale tolkningsprinsipp ved tolkning av kommersielle avtaler. Høyesterett har fremhevet at prinsippet står særlig sterkt ved tolkning av forhandlede standardkontrakter. Den konkrete ...

Artikkelen gjennomgår adgangen som finnes i norsk rett for samboere til å inngå avtaler om troskap med økonomiske sanksjoner ved vilkårsbrudd, med utgangspunkt i en ny lagmannsrettsdom: LH-2017-129425. Saken gjaldt gyldigheten ...