Department of Law and Governance

Publications

• Midttun, Atle (2025)
  Chapter 6 Companies squeezed between autocratic and democratic regimes
  Doi: 10.1515/9783111397719-007
• Lind, Yvette (2024)
  The Problem of Expertise. The Practice of Offering Mobile Workers Preferential Expert Tax Regimes - A Swedish Perspective
• Esayas, Samson Yoseph & Tosoni, Luca (2024)
  Article 61. Informed Consent to Participate in Testing in Real World Conditions Outside AI Regulatory
• Tosoni, Luca & Esayas, Samson Yoseph (2024)
  Article 81. Union Safeguard Procedure
• Hemmingby, Anette (2024)
  Kommentarer til arbeidsmiljøloven §8.4
  Arbeidsrett.
• Kaltenborn, Jul Fredrik (2024)
  Bruk av komparativ analyse som argumentasjon ved vurderingen av politiets speilkopieringsteknologi
• Ellingsæter, Sjur Swensen (2024)
  Could it Happen in the EU? An Analysis of Loss Distribution between Shareholders and AT1 Bondholders under EU Law
  Journal of Financial Regulation, 10(2), p. 194-212. Doi: 10.1093/jfr/fjae003
• Boucht, Per Johan Petersson (2024)
  Inndragning og Grunnloven § 96 tredje ledd
  Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap, 137(1), p. 128-171. Doi: 10.18261/tfr.137.1.2
• Parlov, Iva & Sverdrup, Ulf (2024)
  The Emerging “Shadow Fleet” as a Maritime Security and Ocean Governance Challenge
• Leppänen, Anna-Riitta; Flinterud, Guro, Long, Amy, O’Neill, Megan, Boucht, Per Johan Petersson, Schaefer, Burkhard & Houtsonen, Jarmo (2024)
  Stakeholders’ views of online surveillance capabilities: a comparative analysis of the debates in UK, Finland and Norway
  Security Journal, 37, p. 1711-1740. Doi: 10.1057/s41284-024-00443-3
• Gjems-Onstad, Ole (2024)
  Utkastet til foreningslov - loven ingen hadde bedt om
• Furuseth, Eivind (2024)
  Norway – Case E-3/21 PRA Group Europe AS – Interest Limitation Rule
• Innset, Ola (2024)
  State-owned enterprises after the market turn: Hybridisation and the historical development of nested paradoxes in the case of Norway
  Business History. Doi: 10.1080/00076791.2024.2353661
• Innset, Ola & Rudberg, Elin Åström (2024)
  Varieties of Marketization
  Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research, 9(1), p. 11-27. Doi: 10.18261/nwr.9.1.2
• Furuseth, Eivind (2024)
  Norway – Interest deduction rules; PRA Group Europe AS – Appeal Court
• Furuseth, Eivind (2024)
  Norway: Royalty or Business Income – A Credit for Tax not levied in Accordance with the Convention?
• Ellingsæter, Sjur Swensen (2024)
  Disqualification of directors
• Esayas, Samson Yoseph & Hauglid, Mathias K. (2024)
  Public Sector Digitalisation in Norway: Current Trends and Challenges in the Legal Framework
  Doi: 10.6027/temanord2024-503
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  This chapter explores Norway's public digitalization efforts, assessing the effectiveness of legislative and policy measures in advancing the public sector's digitalization and examining the adequacy of safeguards for fundamental rights. Norway stands out for its highly digitalized public sector, a result of strategic legislative and policy initiatives promoting a digital-friendly environment. We pinpoint three key areas of focus in these endeavors. First, there have been numerous legislative initiatives enabling profiling and automated decision making in public agencies. While driven by efficiency objectives, these initiatives tend to be seen as tools to promote equal treatment. Second, changes have been made to counter challenges in data reuse hindering digital transformation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) implementation. Third, the advocacy for regulatory sandboxes emerges as a powerful force for experimentation and learning, with platforms like the Sandbox for Responsible AI setting examples. Despite the progress, challenges persist. Firstly, most initiatives focus on enabling decisions via hard-coded software, often neglecting advanced AI systems designed for decision support. Secondly, discretionary criteria in public administration law and semantic discrepancies across sector-specific regulations continue to be a stumbling block for automation and streamlined service delivery. Importantly, few laws directly tackle the challenges digitalization presents to fundamental democratic values and rights, due to a fragmented, sector-focused approach. Furthermore, we assess the AI Act's potential to facilitate AI implementation while redressing national law gaps concerning human rights and boosting AI use in public agencies. The Act places public administration under sharp scrutiny, as the bulk of the prohibitions and high-risk AI applications target the public sector’s use of AI. This focus promises to enhance the protection of individuals in this domain, especially concerning transparency, privacy, data protection, and anti-discrimination. Yet, we identify a potential conflict between the AI Act and a tendency in the Norwegian legal framework to restrict the use of AI for certain purposes. Finally, we put forth recommendations to boost digitalization while safeguarding human rights. Legislative actions should pave the way for the integration of advanced AI systems intended for decision support. There is a need for coordination of sector-specific initiatives and assessment of their impact on fundamental rights. To amplify these national endeavors, we point out areas where cross-border collaborations in the Nordic-Baltic regions could be vital, emphasizing data sharing, and learning from successful projects. Regulatory sandboxes offer another promising avenue for collaboration. With its considerable experience in sandboxes tailored for responsible AI, Norway stands as a beacon for other nations in the Nordic and Baltic regions.

• Innset, Ola (2024)
  Tor Bjørklund i samarbeid med Axel Fjeldavli Norske partier og velgere. Valgresultatenes historiske røtter
  Historisk Tidsskrift (Norge), 103(1), p. 69-72. Doi: 10.18261/ht.103.1.8
• Boucht, Per Johan Petersson & Emberland, Marius (2024)
  Om «mental link» som vilkår for straff etter EMK art. 7 ifølge G.I.E.M. S.r.l. mfl. mot Italia (2018)
  Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap.
• Weltzien, Kurt (2024)
  Fosen – Hurdal – Genève – Akersgaten 45 - tvungen avskaffelse av tvungen lønnsnemnd?
• Lind, Yvette (2024)
  Chartering the disciplinary boundaries surrounding taxation, citixenship, and democracy
• Bråthen, Gina (2024)
  Utvidede rettigheter for arbeidstaker ved nedbemanning i foretak som inngår i konsern
• Ellingsæter, Sjur Swensen (2024)
  Innebærer amerikanske og engelske restruktureringsprosedyrer kollektiv insolvensbehandling?
• Innset, Ola (2024)
  National Interests as Positive Externalities: Headquarters Retainment as Justification for Hybrid State-owned Enterprises in Norway (2000–2021)
  Enterprise & Society. Doi: 10.1017/eso.2024.25
• Viken, Monica (2024)
  Kan brudd på god meglerskikk utløse sanksjoner etter markedsføringsloven?
• Espeli, Harald (2024)
  The labor movement’s pragmatic attitude towards minimum wage legislation (1915–1940)
  Arbeiderhistorie, 38(1), p. 47-68. Doi: 10.18261/arbeiderhistorie.38.1.4
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  Statlig minstelønnsregulering stod i varierende grad på den politiske dagsorden fra 1915 til 1940. Denne artikkelen ser nærmere på hvordan arbeiderbevegelsen, det vil si Landsorganisasjonen, relevante fagforbund og arbeiderpartiene så på slik lovregulering. Arbeiderbevegelsen støttet de to minstelønnslovene vedtatt i 1918 til fordel for ressurssvake grupper fordi disse vanskelig kunne bedre sin situasjon på kort sikt gjennom effektiv fagorganisering. Landsorganisasjonen og Arbeiderpartiet gikk i 1937 av samme grunn inn for minstelønnsregulering i jordbruket, men landsmøtet i Norsk Skog- og Landarbeiderforbund avviste skissen til lovregulering samme år. Det klareste uttrykk for arbeiderbevegelsens pragmatiske holdning til minstelønnslovgivning var bekledningsarbeiderforbundet, som hadde et vedtektsfestet forbud mot industrielt hjemmearbeid. Samtidig ble forbundet den fremste støttespilleren for minstelønnsreguleringene i hjemmearbeidsloven i løpet av mellomkrigstiden

• Lind, Yvette (2023)
  Pandemocracy in Europe: Power, Parliaments and People in Times of COVID-19
  The American journal of comparative law. Doi: 10.1093/ajcl/avad025
• Hemmingby, Anette (2023)
  Karnov Lovkommentar: Lov om 1. og 17. mai som høgtidsdager
  Karnov lovkommentarer.
• Ericson, Ingvild Schiøll (2023)
  MyGame, strømming av breddeidrett og barns personvern
  Lov & Data.
• Stoknes, Per Espen; Aslaksen, Iulie, Goluke, Ulrich, Randers, Jørgen & Garnåsjordet, Per Arild (2023)
  Plausible futures for the Norwegian offshore energy sector: Business as usual, harvest or rebuild?
  Energy Policy, 184. Doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2023.113887
• Furuseth, Eivind (2023)
  Norway: Supreme Court - Posseidon (HR-2021-1243-A)
• Furuseth, Eivind (2023)
  Good faith in domestic and international tax law - Norway
• Hernes, Gudmund (2023)
  Medier, makt og myter. Krigen på bakken, krigen i mediene og krigen om mytene
  Norsk Medietidsskrift, 30(3). Doi: 10.18261/nmt.30.3.8
• Skjønberg, Alexander Sønderland (2023)
  Norway Supreme Court HR-2021-1193-A Individual after-effect of provisions of salary supplement cannot be based on the norms of managerial prerogative
• Bergo, Knut (2023)
  Avveiningsmodellen- en analyse av norske særtrekk
  Jussens venner, 58, p. 252-303.
• Sogner, Knut (2023)
  Academics as teachers of business responsibility? Historians, philosophers, and the maturation of the young minds within Norwegian business schools
  Doi: 10.4337/9781035313174
• Furuseth, Eivind (2023)
  Mandatory disclosure rules in Norway
• Furuseth, Eivind (2023)
  Norway: Whether the Norwegian/Domestic Tax Credit Rules Were in Conflict with Article 23 of the Tax Treaty – Case No: 19-083263TVI-THOD/1
• Bråthen, Tore Kristian (2023)
  HR-2023-1128-A (Kvinnherad Breiband): Utløses forkjøpsrett til aksjer av fusjon og fisjon?
  Nytt i privatretten : nyhetsbrev for informasjon på det privatret.
• Ekberg, Espen; Wilson, John, Webster, Anthony & Skurnik, Samuli (2023)
  Strategic renewal in the consumer co-operative sector: An international study
  Doi: 10.4324/9781003333838-1
• Emberland, Marius (2023)
  Kommentarer til Lov om etterretningstjenesten, Karnov lovkommentarer (2023)
  Karnov lovkommentarer.
• Ekberg, Espen & Merok, Eivind (2023)
  When strategic renewal fails: 25 years of continuous losses at a large Norwegian consumer co-op, 1990-2014
  Doi: 10.4324/9781003333838-5
• Ekberg, Espen; Webster, Anthony, Wilson, John & Skurnik, Samuli (2023)
  Themes, lessons and further research
  Doi: 10.4324/9781003333838-17
• Pettersen, Jenni Maria (2023)
  Ulovfestet ansvar for sakskostnader idømt aksjeselskap etter Sea Lice-dommen (HR-2022-1148-A)
  Nordisk Tidsskrift for Selskabsret, 2(3).
• Eidsvold-Tøien, Irina (2023)
  Remunerating authors and performers: Are statutory fair compensation provisions sufficient?
  Doi: 10.4337/9781035311460.00013
• Nygaard, Pål; Erlien, Trond Holmen & Petersen Malonæs, Tine (2023)
  The role of projects in shaping businesses capabilities and structure since the 1960s
  Business History, p. 1-24. Doi: 10.1080/00076791.2023.2204230
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  Project studies have emerged as a thriving subfield of management and organisation research. Central to project studies, is the idea that engaging in projects has long-term effects on businesses capabilities and structure. While understanding organisational change has been central to business history’s mission, historians have paid little attention to the role projects play in shaping organisations. We address this gap. Based on three cases, we analyse why and how businesses in different contexts increased their engagement with projects, whether their engagement was part of a conscious strategy, and how it affected their structure and capabilities. The article contributes to business history by showing how concepts developed in project studies cast new light on projects as a historical phenomenon and provides a valuable theoretical framework for explaining organisational change. Based on this, we suggest projects constitute a fruitful avenue for further historical research and interdisciplinary dialogue with management and organisation research.