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Scientist profile

Anneken Kari Sperr

Associate Professor

Research group for Administrative Law

Faculty of Law

Research group for Family and Children Law, Succession Law and Law of Persons

Democracy and Rule of Law

Research group for Legal Culture

Title: Associate Professor

Phone: +47 55 58 95 87

E-mail:

Visiting address: Magnus Lagabøtesplass 1

National and European Administrative Law

Family Law and International Private Law

Comparative Law (Private and Public including Procedural Law)

Work experience  

2013– Associate Professor (Førsteamanuensis )
Det juridiske fakultet, UiB

2009–2012

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Law, University of Bergen

2008–

• Lecturer at the University of Hamburg
• Member of the Hanseatic Bar Association in Hamburg 

2005–2009

Senior research fellow (part time)
Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, responsible for the Unit for Northern European Legal Systems

2005–2008

Legal Clerkship at the Court of Appeal, Hamburg (Referendariat)

2002–2005

Postgraduate Ph.D. researcher
Scholar of the German National Academic Foundation

1997–2001

• Research assistant, Faculty of Law, Greifswald
• Trainee at the German Embassy in London and law
   firms in Cologne and Copenhagen

 Education

2008

Second State Examination (Bar Exam equiv.),
Court of Appeal, Hamburg 

2006

Dr. jur. (Ph.D. equiv.), University of Greifswald, Germany 

2002

First State Examination (J.D. equiv.),
Court of Appeal, Rostock

1995–2001

Studies in law, political science and Scandinavian studies in Bergen, Greifswald and Copenhagen

 

Publications in Cristin

Books and monographs

  • Verwaltungsrechtsschutz in Deutschland und Norwegen. Eine vergleichende Studie zur gerichtlichen Kontrolle von Verwaltungsentscheidungen, Nomos Verlag 2009, 488 pages; published with grant from NFR, reviewed in LoR 05/2010 and TfR 3/2012 
    http://www.nomos-shop.de/productview.aspx?isbn=9783832942595

 Shorter Works in Collections, Handbooks and Encyclopaedia

  • Regulation of Dispute Resolution in Norway. Vertical and Horizontal Regulatory Strategies (Chapter 13), i: Regulating Dispute Resolution. ADR and Access to Justice at the Crossroads, Felix Steffek and Hannes Unberath (eds), in cooperation with Hazel Genn, Reinhard Greger and Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Hart Publishing (Oxford - Portland Oregon) 2013, pp. 329 - 361. http://www.hartpub.co.uk/BookDetails.aspx?ISBN=9781849462587  
  • Guide for Regulating Dispute Resolution (GRDR): Principles (Chapter 1), in: Regulating Dispute Resolution – ADR and Access to Justice at the Crossroads, edited by Felix Steffek and Hannes Unberath in cooperation with Hazel Genn, Reinhard Greger and Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Hart Publishing, Oxford 2013, pp. 3 – 11.
    (– together with H. Unberath, L. Adrian, A. De Matteis, G. De Palo, F. Ferrand, R. Greger, J. Härtling, U. Janzen, S. Kakiuchi, L. Kirchhoff, P. Mayr, I. Meier, K. Nemeth, M. Pel, F. Steffek and I. Verougstraete –).
  • Guide for Regulating Dispute Resolution (GRDR): Principles and Comments (Chapter 2), in: Regulating Dispute Resolution – ADR and Access to Justice at the Crossroads, edited by Felix Steffek and Hannes Unberath in cooperation with Hazel Genn, Reinhard Greger and Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Hart Publishing, Oxford 2013, pp. 13 – 32.
    (– together with H. Unberath, L. Adrian, A. De Matteis, G. De Palo, F. Ferrand, R. Greger, J. Härtling, U. Janzen, S. Kakiuchi, L. Kirchhoff, P. Mayr, I. Meier, K. Nemeth, M. Pel, F. Steffek and I. Verougstraete –)
    Download: http://ssrn.com/author=2126168
  • Kindesrecht und Elternkonflikt in Norwegen, in: Löhning, Schwab, Henrich und Gottwald (edit.), Kindesrecht und Elternkonflikt, Beiträge zum Europäischen Familienrecht, Band 14, Gieseking Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, pp. 217-247.
  • Mediation in Norway, in: Mediation – Principles, Regulation and Reform in Comparative Perspective, utgitt av Klaus J. Hopt og Felix Steffek, Oxford University Press 2012, pp. 1137-1164.
  • Harmonisation of Law in Scandinavia, in: Basedow, Hopt, Zimmermann (edit.), The Max Planck Encyclopedia of European Private Law, Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • Ombudsman, in: Basedow, Hopt, Zimmermann (edit.), The Max Planck Encyclopedia of European Private Law, Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • Länderteil Norwegen, in: Bergmann/Ferid/Henrich, Internationales Ehe- und Kindschaftsrecht, Verlag für Standesamtswesen, Frankfurt am Main/Berlin, 2011.
  • Die skandinavische Rechtsvereinheitlichung, in: Basedow, Hopt, Zimmermann (Hrsg.), Handbuch des Europäischen Privatrechts, Mohr-Siebeck-Verlag Tübingen 2009, pp. 1407.
  • Ombudsmann, in: Basedow, Hopt, Zimmermann (Hrsg.), Handbuch des Europäischen Privatrechts, Mohr-Siebeck-Verlag Tübingen 2009, pp. 1121.
  • Mediation in Norwegen, in: Hopt/Steffek (Hrsg.), Mediation – Rechtstatsachen, Rechtsvergleich, Regelungen, Mohr-Siebeck-Verlag Tübingen 2008, pp. 761.

Journal Articles

  • Datalagringsdirektivet og den tyske grunnloven, Lov og Rett 2010, pp. 451.
  • Änderungen des norwegischen Kindschaftsrechts, FamRZ 2011, pp. 1457 flg (sammen med Torstein Frantzen).

Interview

Recent Lectures

  • The protection of legitimate expectations under Norwegian administrative law, contribution at an international comparative conference on 'The protection of legitimate expectations under administrative law', 10 - 12 October 2012, University of Bergen, Norway.
  • Kindesrecht und Elternkonflikt in Norwegen, Norwegian contribution at the '11. Symposium für Europäisches Familienrecht', 4 - 6 October 2012, University of Regensburg.
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution in Norway, International Conference on 'Regulating Dispute Resolution: ADR and Access to Justice at the Crossroads', 13 - 16 September 2012, University of Bayreuth.
  • Overprøving av forvaltningsvedtak i Norge og Tyskland - komparative observasjoner, Seminar at the Agency for Public Management and eGovernment (Difi) on the Norwegian system of review procedures before administrative and quasi-judicial bodies, 1.6.2012.
  • Constitutionalism and social rights in Germany, joint seminar on Constitutional protection of social rights: Comparative perspectives, UiB and Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI), 8.5. 2012.
  • Komparasjon og komparativ metode, Det juridiske fakultet, forsker-opplæringens perspektivlinje, UiB 24.4.2012.
  • Hva kjennetegner den norske Grunnloven? Noen komparative perspektiver. Fagleg-pedagogisk dag, Universitetet i Bergen, 3.2.2012.
  • Komparativ rettsforskning. Et bidrag til forskeropplæring ved Det juridiske fakultet, forskeropplæringens grunnlinje, bolk 2: metodespørsmål, UiB, 26.10.2011.
  • Rettsforskerens selvforståelse anno 2011 - Et bidrag fra den komparative rettsforskningen med eksempler fra offentlig rett, UiB, 17.6.2011.
  • Harmonisation of Law in Scandinavia, Bergen Summer School, UiB, 27.05.2011 and 27.05.2010.
  • Vern av grunnrettighetene ved den tyske "Bundesverfassungsgericht", Seminar with Stortingets grunnlovskomite, UiB, 22.11.2010. 
  • Implementering av DLD i tysk rett, lunchseminar UiB, 28.10.2010. 
  • Tekstutvikling som erkjennings- og læringsprosess, Solstrand-konferance on Academic Writing, 08.10.2010. 
  • Rettslig kontroll med forvaltningsvedtak i et komparativ perspektiv, Seminar of the research group for Administrative Law, UiB 24.09.2010. 
  • Forvaltningsrettens internasjonalisering, Nordisk Forvaltningsretligt Seminar in Århus, 19.08.2010. 
  • Class action in the legal systems of the nordic countries, Acdemic Konzil, Max-Planck-Institut Hamburg, 18.09.2006. 
  • Domstolskontroll med forvaltningen i Tyskland og Norge, Institutt for Offentlig Rett, Universitetet i Oslo, 03.05.2005. 

 

  • Forvaltningsrett II, vårsemester 2013, UiB
  • Arverett, vårsemester 2013, UiB
  • Forvaltningsrett I, høstsemester 2012, UiB
  • Forvaltningsrett II, vårsemester 2012, UiB
  • Forvaltningsrett I, høstsemester 2011, UiB
  • Forvaltningsrett II, vårsemester 2011, UiB
  • Forvaltningsrett I, høstsemester 2010, UiB
  • Forvaltningsrett II, vårsemester 2010, UiB
  • Forvaltningsrett I, høstsemester 2009, UiB 
  • Forvaltningsrett II, vårsemester 2009, UiB
  • Einführung in das Recht der nordischen Länder, forelesning, sommersemester 2009, Universitetet i Hamburg
  • Einführung in das Recht der nordischen Länder, forelesning, vintersemester 2008/09, Universitetet i Hamburg,
  • Introduction to Comparative Law, seminar, høstsemester 2006, UiB