Karl Harald Søvig

Title: Professor

Phone: +47 55 58 95 33

E-mail: Karl.Sovig@uni.no

Visiting address: Magnus Lagabøtesplass 1

Room number: 655

Biomedical law and social law, constitutional law and administrative law.

 

 

Education:	2005	University of Bergen, Faculty of Law (Dr. jur.)
	1995	University of Bergen, Faculty of Law (Cand.jur.)
Employment:	1996-	Various positions faculty of law. From 2009 as professor.
	2003-	Ad hoc chairman («fylkesnemndsleder»), County Board for Social Affairs and Child Care (part time).
	2005	Temporary judge («konstituert lagdommer»), High Court of Gulating.
	2002	Temporary judge («konstituert tingrettsdommer»), District Court of Midhordland.
	1999-2000	Deputy judge («dommerfullmektig»), District Court of Midhordland
Affiliations and current various positions:	Leader of the research school in law, University of Bergen
	Leader of the research group of Administrative Law at the University of Bergen
	Member of the editorial board of a Norwegian Law Journal (Tidsskrift for arverett, familierett og barnevernrettslige spørsmål)
	Deputy Member of the Regional Board on Medical Ethics
	Member of the The Nordic Network for Research in Biomedical Law (chaired by Prof. E. Rynning, Uppsala)

 

Publications in Cristin

Selected publications. This selection includes contributions in English or with a summary or abstract in English. For a full list, see http://www.uib.no/personer/Karl.Sovig)

• Detention of pregnant women to protect the foetus, in E. Rynning & M. Hartlev (eds.), Nordic Health Law in a European Context (Liber/Brill, 2011) pp. 158-180

• Provision of Health Services to Irregular Migrants with a Special Focus on Children, European Journal of Health Law, vol. 18 (2011) p. 43-54

• Europerisering av sosialretten – Spredte tanker («Europeanization of Social Law - Some remarks» with English abstract), Nordisk tidsskrift for sosialrätt 2010, p. 113-133

• Tvang overfor rusmiddelavhengige («Coercive measures against alcohol- an drug addicts» (Fagbokforlaget 2007, 476 pages) with a summary in English

 

Lectures

- Provision of welfare to irregular migrants - a multilevel approach (lecture on Bergen Summer Research School 2011), Presentation to be found here

PROVIR: Provision of Welfare to 'Irregular Migrants'). Project funded by the Norwegian Research Council) chaired by dr. Christine M. Jacobsen at Stein Rokkan Centre for Social Studies (Uni Rokkan Centre).