Employee Profile

Johan Vorland Wibye

Associate Professor - Department of Law and Governance

Room number A5I-071
E-mail johan.v.wibye@bi.no

Biography

Norwegian Editor of Retfærd - Nordic Journal of Law and Justice. www. retfaerd.se.

Current teaching
Course director - Administrative Law (JUR3550)
Course teacher - EEA Law (JUR3545)
Lecturer - ex.fac (JFEXFAC04)
Course teacher - Legal Philosophy (JUR4123)
Course teacher - PhD philosophy of science, scientific theory and research methods (JUR9010)

Past teaching: Administrative Law (JUS2211 UiO), legal methodology/juridisk metodelære (JUS1001 INN), administrative law, welfare law and environmental law (JUS1003, JUS2005, JUS2011 INN).

Research
My research focuses on the intersection of administrative law, human rights law and legal theory. I am particularly interested in analytical rights theory and its application to doctrinal interpretation. My more recent publications are on legal conflicts, correlativity, positive and negative human rights, legitimacy attribution, the scope of administrative legal powers, the philosophy of contract law, and environmental litigation.

Ongoing projects
Hensiktsmessighet i folketrygdloven § 12-5 i et NAV-perspektiv (HENSIKT) - Funding: Arbeids- og velferdsdirektoratet

Education (Master of Laws, MJur, PhD, MSt)

Universitetet i Oslo	Master of Laws	00/2010	Master i rettsvitenskap
University of Oxford	Master of Laws	00/2012	Magister Juris
Universitetet i Oslo	Bachelor	00/2015	Filosofi og idehistorie
Universitetet i Oslo	PhD in Law	00/2020	Rights theory ("Rettighetsanalyse")
University of Oxford	Master	00/2020	Practical Ethics

Area of Expertise

Publications

Scientific publications Other

Brinkmann, Matthias & Wibye, Johan Vorland (2023)

Towards Non-essentialism – Tracking Rival Views of Legitimacy as a Right to Rule

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 43(3), s. 497- 519. Doi: 10.1093/ojls/gqad006

It is common in the literature to claim that legitimacy is the right to rule and that, accordingly, Hohfeldian rights analysis can be used to understand the concept. However, we argue that authors in the legitimacy literature have not generally realised the full potential of Hohfeldian analysis. We discuss extant approaches in the literature that conceptually identify legitimacy with one particular Hohfeldian incident, or, more rarely, a determinate set of incidents. Against these views, and building on parallel debates in property theory, we suggest that Hohfeldian analysis pushes one towards the claim that legitimacy possesses no determinate essence. We provide a rationale for this novel view and disarm a series of objections.

Wibye, Johan Vorland (2022)

Reviving the Distinction between Positive and Negative Human Rights

Ratio Juris, 35(4), s. 363- 382. Doi: 10.1111/raju.12363 - Full text in research archive

Wibye, Johan Vorland (2022)

Liberty to Request Exemption as Right to Conscientious Objection

The New Bioethics, 28(4), s. 327- 340. Doi: 10.1080/20502877.2022.2114135 - Full text in research archive

Wibye, Johan Vorland (2022)

Beyond Acts and Omissions — Distinguishing Positive and Negative Duties at the European Court of Human Rights

Human Rights Review Doi: 10.1007/s12142-022-00663-3 - Full text in research archive

Wibye, Johan Vorland (2021)

En rett for enhver plikt – om korrelasjonstesen og dens påståtte unntak

Retfærd. Nordisk Juridisk Tidsskrift, 169(2), s. 9- 29.

Wibye, Johan Vorland & Høgberg, Alf Petter (2021)

Klimadommens forsvinningsnummer – når borgere blir tredjeparter til konstitusjonelle rettighetsbestemmelser

Retfærd. Nordisk Juridisk Tidsskrift, s. 61- 74.

Wibye, Johan Vorland (2019)

Pliktkollisjoner som tolkningsresultat

Jussens venner, 54, s. 359- 387. Doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3126-2019-06-02 - Full text in research archive

Wibye, Johan Vorland (2019)

Rettslige friheter

Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap, 132(5), s. 403- 442. Doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3096-2019-05-01 - Full text in research archive

Wibye, Johan Vorland (2018)

Hohfelds rettigheter

Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap, 5, s. 493- 533. Doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3096-2018-05-02 - Full text in research archive

Falkanger, Aage Thor & Wibye, Johan Vorland (2015)

Den norske sivilombudsmannens adgang til å uttale seg om forvaltningens skjønn

Sigurdjónsdóttir, Berglind Bára; Kristjánsson, Hafsteinn Dan, Gammeltoft-Hansen, Hans, Björgvinsson, Kjartan Bjarni, Hreinsson, Páll & Spanó, Róbert Ragnar (red.). Afmælisrit Tryggvi Gunnarsson Sextugur 10. juni 2015

Wibye, Johan Vorland (2022)

PluriCourts Lunch Seminar: Conflicts Between Duties

[Academic lecture]. PluriCourts Lunch Seminar.

Wibye, Johan Vorland (2020)

Mer om Hohfelds rettigheter – Et svar til Lindberg

[Article in business/trade/industry journal]. Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap, 133(4), s. 476- 480. Doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3096-2020-04-04

Wibye, Johan Vorland (2019)

Prostitusjonsinntekter, samvittighetsforbehold og plassering av rettigheter

[Article in business/trade/industry journal]. Lov og Rett, 58(04), s. 255- 260. Doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3061-2019-04-05

Ikdahl, Ingunn; Franklin, Christian, Hennig, Martin & Wibye, Johan Vorland (2019)

Ikke stykkevis og delt - Rapport om Arbeids- og velferdsetatens EØS-rettslige forpliktelser

[Report]. Arbeids- og velferdsdirektoratet.

Rapporten ble utarbeidet i henhold til mandat fra Arbeids- og velferdsdirektøren om å «gjennomgå hvilke EØS-rettslige forpliktelser Arbeids- og velferdsetaten har i forbindelse med forvaltningen av sine ytelser og tjenester». Mandatet sa videre at rapporten skal «bidra inn i NAV sin pågående gjennomgang av etatens praksis og retningslinjer for EØS-rettslige forpliktelser på våre områder».

Academic Degrees
Year	Academic Department	Degree
2020	University of Oslo	PhD
2020	University of Oxford	Master
2020	Universitetet i Oslo	PhD in Law
2015	Universitetet i Oslo	Bachelor
2012	University of Oxford	Master of Laws
2010	Universitetet i Oslo	Master of Laws