1. The University of Bergen
The Faculty of Law
The University of Bergen
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The picture shows the offcial opening of the academic year, held each year in August.

2. Bergen - The gateway to the fjords
The University of Bergen is situated in Bergen, which is a city and municipality on the west coast of Norway. As of June 2014, the municipality has a population of 273,800 and the Greater Bergen Region has a population of 405,800, making Bergen the second-largest city in Norway. The city centre is located on Byfjorden and the city is surrounded by mountains. For this reason, Bergen is known as the city of seven mountains.

3. A city with a history in shipping, fishing and trade
The city is an international centre for aquaculture, shipping, offshore petroleum industry and subsea technology, and a national centre for higher education, tourism and finance.
Bergen is known for the Hanseatic buildings of Bryggen,- a World Heritage Site, the Fish Market, and surrounding mountains and fjords, such as the Hardangerfjord and Sognefjord.

4. The University of Bergen
is situated on the hillside on the Bergen University Campus overlooking the city centre
has more than students
has an international reputation for research excellence in many areas
has more than 30 years of experience in international co-operation
welcomes around 700 international exchange students every year
offers a variety of courses taught in English
With around students and faculty and staff, the University of Bergen is the third-largest educational institution in Norway.
Because of its central location, the University of Bergen is truly an urban university. Activities at the university are intrinsically woven into the geographical, historical and cultural framework of the city of Bergen.
The University of Bergen is part of learning and research networks at the national level, and internationally, in Scandinavia, throughout Europe, and with various institutions in the Americas, Asia and Africa. UiB is particularly well known for its co-operative efforts with universities in developing countries.
Every year the University of Bergen welcomes around 700 international exchange students every year. The students attend a large number of courses taught in English at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

5. University of Bergen: Short history
1825 Bergen Museum
1873 Lepra bacteria discovered – Armauer Hansen
1946 University founded
1948 Formal opening of Faculties in Medisin, Matematics and Natural Science, Historical-Filosofical faculty
1970 Faculty in Odontology and Social science
1980 Faculties in Psycology and Law
It is said that history shapes the present. In terms of UiB’s history, the city of Bergen became a centre for learning and research with the establishment of Bergen Museum in 1825, through an initiative by Wilhelm Koren Christie.
One of the early leading scientific figures to first establish Bergen as an international research centre was Armauer Hansen, who discovered the leprosy bacterium in 1873.
University level teaching began in Bergen with the establishment of the Sundt Chair of Zoology in The courses and examinations, however, were held under the auspices of the University of Oslo.
In 1946, the Government of Norway passed an official act authorising the establishment of the University of Bergen. The new university formally opened in August The first three faculties were the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and the Faculty of Arts.
Universities have an important role mirroring and responding to society’s needs. UiB underwent changes that reflected the evolving social conditions of the 1960’s. This included the establishment of the Faculty of Dentistry and the Faculty of Social Sciences in 1970.
Further growth of the university led to the establishment of two new Faculties in 1980: the faculties of Psychology and Law.
UNIFOB, Bergen University’s Research Foundation, was established in 1986 in order to be able to provide additional support for the growing amount of high quality research being conducted at the university. UNIFOB’s primary role is to organise external funding for research activities at the university.
In 1990, the University of Bergen was awarded the Bertelsmann Prize for Outstanding University Management. There were 60 other European universities involved in the competition.

6. The six faculties at UiB
The Faculty of Arts
The Faculty of Law
The Faculty of Sciences
The Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
The Faculty of Psychology
The Faculty of Social Sciences
At 66 years old, the University of Bergen is a young and modern university. However, it offers the same traditional, classical programme as that which is offered at most institutions throughout Europe.
The university has 6 faculties, which, in turn, include 90 departments, centres and research institutions. UiB has most of its premises concentrated in two areas.
Årstadvollen is the University's "health campus", where dentistry, medicine and health-care lie close to the Haukeland and Haraldsplass university clinics.
Natural and social sciences, psychology, the arts and law are taught at Nygårdshøyden, a mixture of houses, shops and seats of learning.

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The Faculty of Law
The picture shows the buildings of the Faculty of Law. The red building is originally an upper secondary school from late 1800 which the faculty took over in It contains reading rooms and seminar rooms and one auditorium. The newer part in front was inaugerated in It has an intersting architecture with the large lecture rooms (auditoriums) on top, the largest has seating for 350 students. Underneath behind the big windows is the student cafeteria – with a very nice view overlooking the fjord. In the five floors which we do not see on the picture, we find the law library, seminar rooms, computer labs and reading rooms.

8. History and facts One of three law faculties in Norway
The Faculty of Law
History and facts
One of three law faculties in Norway
The law study in Bergen started in 1969
The Faculty of Law was established 1980
Approximately 90 scientific staff:
33 professors
5 professor II
13 associate professors
1 associate professor II
6 post doctors
6 researchers
24 PhD research fellows
30 Administrative Officers

9. The Faculty of Law
Education
Approximately 2150 law students, where 150 of these are international exchange students
Offers a 5-years Master degree program
Annual admission of 380 first year students, and approximately 150 international exchange students into our courses taught in English
Methodology: Problem based learning. Electronic learning support is important.
The last few years, 50 % of the graduates had studied abroad as part of their degree.
The Faculty offers a programme of professional study. The Master’s Programme in Law requires 5 years of full time studies. In your folder you will find a schematic overview of the structure of the program. Each year consists of different courses, followed by a mandatory examination at the end of each course. Admission to the master’s programme is restricted.
The Faculty has taken on an active role when it comes to developing pilot projects, and this involves exploring the use of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) in course work. As a law student in Bergen one will be exposed to problem-based and computer- based learning.

10. The Faculty of Law

11. Rhythm of mandatory working groups 1st-3rd year
writing – commentary – feedback
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Working group
2 hours
Individual paper to be handed in to the virtual group room before 8 am
Fellow-students’
comments before 8 am
Group leaders’ comments before 10am
Larger group
meetings

12. Internationalisation of studies at the Faculty of Law
We focus on sending students abroad as part of their studies
Approximately 130 agreements about student exchange
App. 100 of these are Erasmus+ agreements with most European countries
Outside Europe: Australia, Canada, China, India, Israel, New Zealand, Russia, USA
Great increase in the number of incoming and outgoing students:
2004: 35 students OUT
36 students IN
2014: 127 students OUT
153 students IN
Great increase over the last 10 years. Official numbers, counted on the semester/year the stay abroad ends. These numbers are stays abroad of a duration of three months or more.

13. Incoming exchange students
The Faculty of Law
Incoming exchange students
120 new exchange students arrived at the Faculty of Law in August 2014, coming from a total of 20 countries and 66 universities worldwide.
26 elective courses offered in English.
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14. Courses taught in English autumn 2015
The Faculty of Law
Courses taught in English autumn 2015
Competition Law (10 ECTS)
Economic Analysis of Law (20 ECTS)
Comparative Energy Law (10 ECTS)
Comparative Private Law (10 ECTS)
Alternative Dispute Settlements (10 ECTS)
Comparative Constitutional Law (10 ECTS)
Human Rights Law: Special Focus on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (20 ECTS)
Transnational Commercial Law I (10 ECTS)
Transnational Commercial Law II (10 ECTS)
EU and EEA Public Procurement Law (10 ECTS)
EU and EEA Commercial Law (10 ECTS)
International Criminal Law (10 ECTS)
International Civil Procedure (10 ECTS)

15. Courses taught in English spring 2015
The Faculty of Law
Courses taught in English spring 2015
Energy Law (10 ECTS)
American Law (10 ECTS)
Law and Justice (10 ECTS)
Legal Philosophy (10 ECTS)
Constitution and Politics (10 ECTS)
EU and EEA State Aid Law (10 ECTS)
Introduction to Copyright Law (5 ECTS)
International Copyright Law (10 ECTS)
Arbitration Theory and Practice (20 ECTS)
Health and Human Rights in the Welfare State (10 ECTS)
European Civil and Political Human Rights (20 ECTS)
Common and Civilian Influence in a Mixed Legal System (10 ECTS)
Comparative Company Law & Economics 1: Theory and Structure (20 ECTS)
International Business Contracts: Structures, Negotiation, Conflict Avoidance and Resolution (10 ECTS)
The courses we offer in English are most often the same from year to year. There may be minor changes from year to year due to for example sabbaticals. But most often, the change we see from year to year will be the adding of a new course. For example, the course Constitution and Politics is new as of this year, and is taught in cooperation with the department of political science.

16. The Faculty of Law
Housing
International exchange students are guaranteed housing given that they apply within the deadline.
15 min from city centre with tramway
From 2985 to NOK per month
From 17 to 34 m2

17. Research at the Faculty of Law
Organized in 13 thematic research groups:
Democracy and Rule of Law
Administrative Law
Biomedical Law and Social Law
Competition and Market Law
Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure
Civil Procedure
Family and Children Law, Succession Law and Law of Persons
International, Constitutional and Human Rights Law
Law of Property and Obligations
Legal Culture
Legal Theory
Natural Resource Law, Environmental Law and Development Law
Tort, Insurance and Social Security Law
The Law Faculty has a dynamic and modern research environment with an increasing international representation.
The faculty is organised in research groups, and has some important academic programmes that operate outside the more formally constituted research groups.
Our research policy encourages collaborative research, teamwork and interdisciplinary work, and the faculty coordinates an interdisciplinary University research programme on human rights, democracy, development, globalisation and citizenship.

18. Research areas of priority in the strategic plan 2011-2015
The Faculty of Law
Research areas of priority in the strategic plan
Criminal law and criminal procedure
Competition and market law, with special development of competence in EU- and EEA-related law.
Law of property and obligations
Central to our pursuits is the focus on law and its interaction with modern legislation and regulation – also on an international level. An example of a vibrant research programme is the programme on The Internationalisation of Criminal Law. We offer foremost expertise in criminal law and criminal theory. Our criminal law research group is the strongest criminal law environment in the Nordic countries.
Also, many of our senior researchers are devoted to human rights law and welfare law. Also, we have experts in Energy Law.

19. Bergen Journal of Criminal Law & Criminal Justice
The Faculty of Law
Bergen Journal of Criminal Law & Criminal Justice
Established in 2013
Open-access electronic journal
Make Nordic criminal research available for an international audience
Two issues per year, freely available for everyone
This open-access electronic journal aims at strengthening the communication between the Nordic criminal law science and the international arena. The main idea is to make Nordic criminal law research available for an international audience, as well as allowing international research to interact with a Nordic audience. Therefore, contributions in English are favoured, but text written in the Nordic languages and in German can be accepted as well. The journal is published with two issues per year, freely available for everyone.

20. Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics
The Faculty of Law
Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics
Abreviated BECCLE
Established in 2011
Jointly owned by Norwegian School of Economics and the University of Bergen, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Social Sciences
Meeting place for economists and lawyers interested in competition policy questions.
As mentioned, research areas of priority include competition law and EU law. Bergen Center for Competition Law and Economics (BECCLE) was established in 2011, and is a center jointly owned by Norwegian School of Economics and the University of Bergen, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Social Sciences. BECCLE is a meeting place for economists and lawyers interested in competition policy questions.
In 2012 BECCLE joined a European network of research institutions with a similar focus: Competition Law and Economics European Network – CLEEN.

21. The Faculty of Law