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Professor of Law (University of Bergen, 2013-)

Ph.d. (Dr juris) in International Law (University of Bergen, 1999)

Master of International Legal Studies (LL.M., Harvard Law School, 1989)

Cand. jur (University of Bergen, 1986)

Lawyer, Permission to Appear before the Supreme Court (Humlen Advokater AS, Oslo, 2014-), Member of Norwegian Bar Association

Judge (Gulating High Court, Norway, 2000-2013)

Head and Member of the Human Rights Committee (Norwegian Judges' Association, 2006-2013)

Permanent Member of the Grand Chamber (Immigration Board of Appeals, 2005-2010)

1) On Snowden

       Additional items, in Norwegian or Swedish:

• Terje Einarsen,

2) On Universal Crimes

• , commissioned article published 15 January 2015, at the Expert Desk of the A38 Blog

       Additional items, in Norwegian:

• Vestens ansvar for egne torturforbrytelser, artikkel i Klassekampen 28.02.2015, se "Filer" til høyre ("torturforbrytelser"). [See "Files" to the right, "torturforbrytelser"]

3) On the Refugee Crisis

• International Journal of Refugee Law, 1995, pp. 551-578. .

       Additional items, in Norwegian:

• Intervju flyktningkrisen, Klassekampen, 21.04.2014 [see "Files" to the right, "flyktninger"]
• .

 4) Various other legal and public issues [in Norwegian]

Rule of Law and Human Rights

Student's Master Thesis

Supervision, Ph.D.

Selected Publications in English (For selected publications also in Norwegian, choose 'Norwegian' for home page):

• Jessica Schultz and Terje Einarsen, The Right to Refugee Status and the Internal Protection Alternative: What Does the Law Say? Chapter 12, in Human Rights and the Refugee Definition (Bruce Burson and David James Cantor Eds.), Brill, 2016, pp. 274-321 

• , commissioned article published 15 January 2015, at the Expert Desk of the A38 Blog

• Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2013, pp. 1-21.

• Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher (TOAEP), Oslo, 2012.FICHL Publication Series No. 14 (2012).
  For reviews of the book, see:
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• in African Journal of Legal Studies 5 (2012), pp. 344-346.

• Drafting History of the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol, in Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 37-73.

• Article 45 of the 1951 Convention (Revision), in Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 1651-1664.

• Boston University International Law Journal, Volume 23, Number 1, Spring 2005, pp. 55-138.

• International Journal of Refugee Law, 1995, pp. 551-578. .

• International Journal of Refugee Law, 1990, pp. 361-389.

Einarsen is head of a long-term research project in international criminal law (ICL):

THE UNIVERSAL CRIMES PROJECT

The 'Universal Crimes Project' is an independent research program founded by Professor Terje Einarsen.

Its purpose is to contribute to the development of laws and mechanisms relevant to combating grave crimes, in compliance with human rights norms and the underlying public interests of international criminal law and criminal justice.

The first output of the Universal Crimes Project is the book:

 FICHL Publication Series No. 14 (2012).

This book is the first in a four-part series entitled 'Rethinking the Essentials of International Criminal Law and Transitional Justice'. It concentrates on the twin-concepts of 'international crimes' and 'universal crimes', and the general issues involved in classifying certain offences.

For reviews of the book, see:

Robert J. Currie, in Journal of International Criminal Justice; in .

Kanya Satwika, in

A second output is an article drawing on the book:

New Frontiers of International Criminal Law: Towards a Concept of Universal Crimes, .

A third output is a commissioned article entitled , published 15 January 2015 at the Expert Desk of the A38 Blog. 

Another output was an international expert conference held in Bergen in April 2014 on universal crimes and leaderships, arranged by Terje Einarsen (Law Faculty, ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´) and Elin Skaar (CMI), see: 

A more recent output is a contribution and forthcoming publication on the crime of aggression, see: 

The forthcoming (2016/2017) second volume of the book-series focuses on punishable participation in universal crimes. This book will be co-authored with Dr. Joseph Rikhof, Senior Councel, Manager of the Law, Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Section of the Department of Justice, Canada.

The third and fourth volumes shift attention to the legal consequences of universal crimes: book three focuses on accountability and jurisdiction as important aspects of universal crimes, while the fourth and final book in the series is about fair trial in universal crime cases. The basic research ideas underlying this comprehensive universal crimes project have been developed by the author of this book. The other books are also to be published in cooperation with other analysts.