Research interests
History and Philosophy of Law and Political Ideas, Constitutional Law, Property Law, Public Law, Criminal Law
Projects
Norwegian edition of Ludvig Holberg's corpus juris gentium (1716), with several accompanying texts
Selected bibliography concerning Natural law
Norwegian translation of Wilhelm von Humboldt’s Ideen zu einem Versuch, die Grenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staats zu bestimmen: Statsmaktens grenser, ed. Andreas Aure. With an introduction by Ole Martin Moen and an afterword by Nils Gilje, Oslo: Unipub 2011.
Norwegian translation of Hugo Grotius’ Mare liberum, in: Mare liberum – Det frie hav, ed. Andreas Aure. With an introduction by Inez Boon and an afterword by Kirsti Strøm Bull and Aage Thor Falkanger, Oslo: Vidarforlaget 2009.
Norwegian translation of „Prolegomena” in Hugo Grotius’ De iure belli ac pacis libri tres, in: Verdensborgerskapets idéhistorie (World Citizenry: History of an Idea) (ed. K. Jakobsen), Oslo: Unipub 2010, pp. 488-503.
Hugo Grotius: Individual rights as the core of natural law, in: Guttorm Fløistad (ed.) Contemporary Philosophy: Philosophy of Justice (A New Survey, Vol. 12). Dordrecht: Springer Verlag (forthcoming).
„Hugo Grotius”, in: Politisk filosofi fra Platon til Hannah Arendt (ed. Jørgen Pedersen), Oslo: Pax, pp. 285-311.
„Konrad Friedlieb (1633-1713), ein streitbarer Jurist in Greifswald und seine Theorie des Gewohnheitsrechts” (Konrad Friedlieb and his theory of customary law), in: Rechtsprechung zur Bewältigung von Kriegsfolgen (ed. N. Jörn), Hamburg: Kovac, pp. 179-204. Abstract.
„Oversjøisk handel: Hugo Grotius' forsvar av eksklusive handelsavtaler” (Grotius' defence of exclusive trade agreements overseas), in: Norsk Maritimt Museum Årbok 2009 (ed. P. Norseng), pp. 173-194.
„Samuel Pufendorfs avvisning av sedvaner og traktater som kilder for folkeretten” (Pufendorf’s denial of customs and treaties as sources of international law), in: Økonomi og Tid (ed. S. Sødal), Bergen: Fagbokforlaget 2010, pp. 133-142.
„Hugo Grotius’ rettsteori om det frie hav (mare liberum) – erverv av herredømme (dominium) og regjeringsmakt (imperium) på havet” (Grotius’ theory of the free sea), in: Natur, rett, historie (ed. K.S. Bull), Oslo: Akademisk Publisering (Pax) 2010, pp. 17-53.
„Grotius og det 5. Bud: Hvorfor kristendommen tillater krig” (Hugo Grotius on why war is permissible to Christianity), in Dekalogen (ed. J. Øyrehagen Sunde), Bergen: Fagbokforlaget 2008, pp. 119-139.
„Der säkularisierte und subjektivierte Naturrechtsbegriff bei Hugo Grotius” (PDF, 324 KB), in: Forum Historiae Iuris, February 13 2008, 41 pp. Abstract.
„Hugo Grotius‘ sekulariserte og subjektiverte naturrettsbegrep”, in: Retfærd, vol. 30, 04/2007, pp. 24-57.
„Theorie der Strafe bei Albert Friedrich Berner”, in: Forum Historiae Iuris, April 16, 2002, 56 pp.
