Law - Ansatte

Biographical info
Lawyer; cand. jur. (University of Oslo) 1976; studies at the University of Glasgow 1978-1979; dr. juris (University of Oslo) 1988.

Positions:
- 2001-present: Professor of Law at the University of Tromsø, Norway;
- 1998-2002: Advokat at Advokatfirmaet PricewaterhouseCoopers DA;
- 1997-2001: Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Tromsø, Norway
- 1995-1998: Registrar at the EFTA Court (in Geneva, from 1996 in Luxembourg);
- 1994-1995: Director General of the Financial Markets Department, Ministry of Finance;
- 1994: Director General in the Economic Policy Department, Ministry of Finance;
- 1988-1994: Counsellor (Economic and Financial Affairs), Norwegian Mission to the European Communities (Brussels);
- 1986-1988: Assistant Director General of the Economic Policy Department, Ministry of Finance;
- 1985-1986: Head of Office and Secretary to the Board of Governors, Norges Bank;
- 1982-1985: Head of Division (Deputy Director as from 1984) in the Economic Policy Department, Ministry of Finance;
- 1976-1982: Legal Counsellor, Norges Bank (the central bank).

Commissions
2004-present: Deputy Member of the Board of Governors of Norges Bank (the central bank)
2003-present: Member of the Board of the Finance Market Trust
2003-present: Jean Monnet Professor
2003-present: Member of the Board of the Norwegian Society of European Studies
2003-present: Member of the National Complaint Board for Public Procurement
2002-present: Member of the Board for Center for Peace and Conflict Transformation (Tromsø)
2002-present: Patron of the European Law Students Association (EL§A) in Tromsø.
2001-present: Vice Dean and Member of the Faculty Board, Faculty of Law, University of Tromsø
1994-present: Norwegian Branch of International Law Association (Norwegian member of "ILA Committee on International Monetary Law")
1994-present: Member of the Advisory Council of the Journal of Business Law
1990-1995: Member of the Euro Institute, Lyon (as an expert): “rapporteur” in a working group of the Institute on exchange rate policy co-operation between EU and third countries;
OTHER:
Member of Royal Committees
- to revise the legislation on real estate agents (finished 1986, cf. NOU 1987:14);
- to revise the legislation on the statistical office (finished 1988, cf. NOU 1988:19);
- to revise the financial institutions' legislation (1990-1995, cf. NOU194:19);
- to assess the accounting legislation (finished 2003, cf. NOU 2003:23).

WORKING LANGUAGES:
Norwegian (including Swedish and Danish) and English; also able to use French and German.

Publication-list
1980: - The Purpose of the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, Norges Bank Publications Series, No 8. Oslo. 49 pp. (in Norwegian).
1981: - The Regulation of Capital Movements within the European Community, Norges Bank Working Paper. Oslo. Stencil, 17 pp. (in Norwegian).
1987: - Norwegian Monetary Law, (doctoral thesis) University Press. Oslo. 723 pp. ISBN 82-00-18373-4 (in Norwegian),
1989: - The Legal Influence of Economic Factors on Administrative Decisions, Nordisk Administrativt Tidsskrift (Nordic Review of Administration), Copenhagen, No. 2, 1989, pp. 156-169 (in Norwegian).
- Public Quotation of Shares: Suspension and Delisting, Lov og rett, Oslo, pp. 148-165 (in Norwegian).
- On the Public Regulation of the Securities Market in Norway, with special Reference to Take-over Bids, Österreichisches Bank Archiv, Vienna, No. 10 1989 pp. 946-958 (in English).
1990: - The Securities Trading Act. A Commentary, University Press. Oslo. 499 pp. ISBN 82-00-02673-6 (together with Jan Bjørland) (in Norwegian).
1991: - The Exchange Rate System in Some European Countries. With a foreword by Governor Hermod Skånland. Lloyd's of London Press Ltd. London. 99 pp. ISBN 1-85044-386-6 (in English).
1992: - The Economic and Monetary Union and European non-Community Countries, ECU Activities, Brussels No. 19, pp. 45 to 49 (in English).
- National Norwegian Report on Financial Services to the XII FIDE Congress in Lisbon, September 1992 (in English).
1993: - The Maastricht Treaty of 7 February 1992. A Commentary, TANO. Oslo. 493 pp. ISBN 82-518-3121-0 (in Norwegian).
1994: - The EC-Court and Court procedure in the Communities. With a foreword by Ole Due, President of the EC Court (foreword by Due in Danish), TANO. Oslo. 613 pp. ISBN 82-518-3162-8 (in Norwegian).
1995: - The Position of EC Law in the Norwegian legal System, Tidsskrift for forretningsjus (Business Law Journal), Oslo, No. 1 pp. 2-8 (in Norwegian).
1997: - Karnov Norwegian Annotated Collection of Legislation: Comments to the Statute and the Rules of Procedure of the EFTA Court, pp. 2952-2958 (Statute) and pp. 2959-2982 (Rules of Procedure) (in Norwegian).
- Survey of the Cases at the EFTA Court, Tidsskrift for forretningsjus, Oslo, No. 1 pp. 1-13 (in Norwegian).
- A Status on the Common Currency and the Development in the EU, Tidsskrift for forretningsjus, Oslo, pp. 65-74 (in Norwegian).
- The euro - a current status. Økonomisk Revy (The Norwegian Bankers’ Association’s Review) October pp. 26-30 (in Norwegian).
- The euro - a historical project. Finans & Samfund (The Danish Banks’ and Savings Banks’ Association) December pp.19-23 (in Danish).
- The EFTA Court, European Law Review, London, pp. 539-553 (in English).
1998: - Some legal questions concerning the introduction of the euro, Tidsskrift for forretningsjus, Oslo, No. 1 pp. 96-118 (in Norwegian).
1999: - Karnov Norwegian Annotated Collection of Legislation: Comments to the Statute and the Rules of Procedure of the EFTA Court (revision of 1997-text), pp. 2264-2288 (in Norwegian).
2000: - Change in the insurance sector? Tidsskrift for forretningsjus, Oslo, No. 1 pp. 3-19 (in Norwegian).
- National Norwegian Report on Legal Aspects of the Single Currency to the FIDE Congress in Helsinki, June (in English).
- The Exchange Rate Regime between ”Euroland” and other European Countries (With a Postscript on Norway), in Mario Giovanoli (Ed) International Monetary Law - Issues for the New Millennium. Essays of The Committee on International Monetary Law of the International Law Association (Mocomila), Oxford University Press, London, pp. 225-241 (in English).
- Will the EEA Agreement survive? Revisjon og Regnskap (“Audit and Accounting”) no 8 pp. 7-11 (in Norwegian).
2001: - EEA and financial services: Will the Government only yield to external pressure? Finansmagasinet (Journal of the Association for Financial Institutions), Oslo, No. 1 pp. 12-15 (in Norwegian).
- The Economic and Monetary Union of EU. Revisjon og Regnskap (“Audit and Accounting”) No. 3 pp. 41-43 (in Norwegian)
2002: - Karnov Norwegian Annoted Collection of Legislation: Comments to the Statute and the Rules of Procedure of the EFTA Court (revised), pp. 2227-2251 (in Norwegian).
- Interest Rate Decisions and the Right of Instruction. In Magnus Aarbakke, Steinar Tjomsland (eds.) Festschrift to Supreme Court Justice Carsten Smith, pp. 167-182 (in Norwegian).
- The Role as Lawyer Before International Courts. In Sigurd Knudtzon/Wilhelm Omsted (eds.) The Role of Lawyers, Lawyers Education Centre, pp. 166-179 (in Norwegian)
- The New Fisheries Policy of the EU, feature article in Nordlys (Tromsø), 5 November
2003: - EU as an economic and political Alternative to USA, The Norwegian Atlantic Committee, Internett text No. 19 – cf. http://www.atlanterhavskomiteen.no/publikasjoner/andre/i-tekster/19.htm (in Norwegian)
- Länderteil Norwegen, in Derleder/Knops/Bamberger (Hersg.): Handbuch zum deutschen und europäischen Bankrecht. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 1795-1810 (jf http://www.bankrechtshandbuch.com/) (in German)
2004: - EU as a Peace Project, in Academia Borealis – The Academy of Science of North Norway Yearbook 2002 (to be published)
- On contractual Issues under EC Law, “bloc” (European Law Students Association – EL§A) – (to be published) (in Norwegian)