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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Denne artikkelen undersøker hvordan bigamiske ekteskap er behandlet i norsk rett. Det finnes ingen samlet gjennomgang av hvordan disse ekteskapene er regulert i Norge, og en generell presentasjon av retten gis derfor først. ...

This article explores rule of law transfers from an international perspective. Based on the observation that the proposal of an emerging international constitutional order seems to have lost momentum this article emphasizes ...

The autonomy of legal institutions is put on the most severe test when they are under attack by other organs of the state. The article discusses the Western legal tradition from an institutional perspective and the concepts ...

There is a clear trend of a hardening attitude towards digital platforms. In Australia this trend is exemplified by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s current inquiry specifically into digital platforms. ...

Artikkelen undersøker om Høyesteretts tilnærming til erstatningsvern ved personskade i tilstrekkelig grad ivaretar kvinners erstatningsrettslige stilling på saksområder hvor kvinner er typiske skadelidte. Utgangspunktet ...

Firms compete by offering consumers lower prices but also high-quality products, and a wide range of choices. With the increasing commercialization of personal, there is a growing consensus that the level of privacy ...

While the heat records and wildfires of 2018 brought climate change firmly into the spotlight, what we face is a convergence of environmental, social and economic crises. The grand challenge of our time is how to achieve ...

Hvilken rådighet arbeidsgivere får over oppfinnelser som de ansatte gjør, reguleres av nokså komplekse regelsett. Lov om oppfinnelser som er gjort av arbeidstakere er viktig, men reglene om vern av bedriftshemmeligheter ...

‘Business as usual’ is a very certain path towards a very uncertain future. On the ‘business as usual’ trajectory, the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), epitomizing the overarching goals of global ...

Platform work blurs the scope of labour law and challenges the contract-of-employment test, threatening effective labour law protection. This article analyses this challenge from a Scandinavian perspective, where the ...

Global change and governance scholars frequently highlight polycentricity as a feature of resilient governance, but both theoretical and empirical knowledge about features and outcomes of the concept are lacking at 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 ...

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 ...

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 kritiserer Høyesteretts forståelse av «barnets beste» i HR-2017-2015-A «Jakob-saken». I denne avgjørelsen behandles «barnets beste» som en rettslig standard, som tar farge av juridiske retningslinjer. Det ...

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 ...

This paper explores ethical and legal implications arising from the intertwinement of cloud services, healthcare and robotics. It closes an existing gap in the literature by highlighting the distinctive ethical and legal ...

The on-going global financial crisis has hit Europe in an especially significant manner. With the legal vacuum surrounding sovereign debt restructurings, Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) ...

Making market operators responsible for having and giving access to information about their impact on the environment is an important part of changing the way the economy operates in relation to environmental sustainability. ...

Temaet for denne artikkelen er rettsutviklingens betydning for tariffavtaler og tariffpartenes ansvar. 1 Temaet er praktisk viktig. Tariffavtaledekningen i Norge er relativt høy, den er praktisk talt 100 prosent i offentlig ...

The legal protection of human rights in Europe is complex. Courts in every state have an obvious responsibility to protect these rights. National law often serves as the positive basis on which they engage in such efforts. ...

Field technology is electronic systems or equipment designed to capture and communicate data on workers in the field so that employers can manage, document or inspect the behavior and job performance of the mobile workforce. ...

The blockchain technology, including Bitcoin and other crypto currencies, has been adopted in many application areas during recent years. However, the main attention has been on the currency and not so much on the underlying ...

The property relations and the intimate relations between the spouses in a marriage have always made it necessary to specifically regulate and restrict transactions between the spouses and transactions between the spouses ...

In this article, it is argued that legislation must be drafted clearly, simply and precisely, especially when it pertains to ordinary citizens. This involves ensuring that the legislation sets out clear procedures so that ...

I artikkelen redegjøres det for reglene om gjeldsavleggelse på skifte i ekteskapsloven § 58. Bestemmelsen er noe innfløkt formulert og har gitt opphav til flere misforståelser. To enkle grunnprinsipper ligger imidlertid ...

In this paper, a critical examination is conducted of Article 25 of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation 2016/679). Bearing the title ʻdata protection by design and by default’, Article 25 ...

This article applies lessons from the concept of ‘emergent properties’ in systems for data privacy law. This concept, rooted in the Aristotelian dictum ‘the whole is more than the sum of its parts’, where the ‘whole’ ...

Det ligger i min oppgitte tittel at det skal være en tendens til at flere ‘total buy-outs’ avtales i våre dager. Jeg har ikke gjennomført noen empirisk undersøkelse av om dette faktisk stemmer. Men i det følgende skal jeg ...

This article addresses how the rules intended to protect consumers and taxpayers from economic crime, namely leniency and cartel settlements in competition law, criminal sanctions and debarment of suppliers from participation ...

[S]elskapsrettslig identifikasjon er temaet for denne artikkelen. Det vil bli vurdert hvilke hensyn som gjør seg gjeldende og i hvilke situasjoner det kan være aktuelt med ansvarsgjennombrudd. Det vil i den forbindelse bli ...

Background Innovations in technology have contributed to rapid changes in the way that modern biomedical research is carried out. Researchers are increasingly required to endorse adaptive and flexible ...

We cannot achieve environmental, social and economic sustainability of our societies without the contribution of business and finance. A fundamental transition away from ‘business as usual’ and onto a sustainable path is ...

The article is made available in the archive with permission from the publisher, Ancilla Iuris. Takings compensation in North America and Europe has generally been related to “market value” in its various conceptions. ...

Rapid advances in microarray and sequencing technologies are making genotyping and genome sequencing more affordable and readily available. There is an expectation that genomic sequencing technologies improve personalized ...

Background The limited availability of maternal and child health data has limited progress in reducing mortality and morbidity among pregnant women and children. Global health agencies, leaders, and funders ...

Background: There is growing consensus that individual genetic research results that are scientifically robust, analytically valid, and clinically actionable should be offered to research participants. However, the general ...

This article presents the Hempel cases from the Norwegian courts, where a Danish parent company (Hempel AS) first was ordered to pay the costs for investigating the extent of pollution in ground previously owned by its ...

Verden er ikke alltid slik vi tror den er. Dette har jeg erfart flere ganger i mitt arbeid med jus som møter ny teknologi, eller omvendt. Det var Jon som serverte meg ideen til mitt første prosjekt innen dette området. ...

Oppgaven tar for seg grensen mellom offentlig og privat fremføring av beskyttede åndsverk. EU-domstolens praksis er sentral i denne grensegangen, og gjennom hele oppgaven blir det derfor sett på hvordan EUs dommer påvirker ...

Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) whereby funds transfer electronically from the account of a payer to a payee significantly contributes to the efficiency and safety of national payment systems and thereby, national economy. ...

Rettsavgjørelser treffes under henvisning til eksternt gitte kriterier i materielle retts-normer, forstått som relasjoner mellom betingende fakta og retts¬følger. Avgjørelsene genereres i hierarkisk ordnede kollektive ...

Telecom market liberalization and regulation by a separate and independent body has been the trend for about two decades. Many countries have been ripping the benefits as a result. Howsoever, in Ethiopia, the liberalization ...

Dette er rapportens hoveddel, minus vedlegg.

The ongoing process of liberalisation of the European Union telecommunication sector influences certain changes in the field of fixed telephony services in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A major objective of this thesis is to ...

The Health Informatics community delivers suggestions on how to achieve better services, and better quality of care, from better use of patient data. These suggestions may be accepted and adopted as public health policies, ...

Artikkelen presenterer noen historiske milepæler i strafferegistreringen. Dette omfatter de tidligste forslagene om å etablere et strafferegister, utviklingen og bruken av strafferegisteret, arbeidet med å etablere lovhjemmel ...

Problemstillingen i denne oppgaven er "Garantiansvar i profesjonelle leveranseavtaler". Med garanti menes i denne oppgaven en garanti som avgis av selgeren om at kontraktsgjenstanden skal oppfylle visse krav ved levering, ...

Avhandlingens tema er en tolkning av odelslovens §§ 1 og 2. Videre vil også enkelte andre aktuelle problemstillinger bli behandlet, herunder odl. §§ 3, 5 og 23.Blandt annet på grunn av endringer i de landbrukspolitiske ...