page_title: University of Oslo Faculty of Law
section_title: Notable academics
hierarchical_section_title: University of Oslo Faculty of Law / Notable academics
caption_attribution_description: Norsk bokmål: Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne (1851-1930), rektor ved Det Kongelige Frederiks Universitet. Malt 1920 av August Eiebakke (død 21. juli 1938). Opphavsrett utløp 21. juli 2008.
context_page_description: The Faculty of Law of the University of Oslo is Norway's oldest law faculty, established in 1811 as one of the four original faculties of The Royal Frederick University. Alongside the law faculties in Copenhagen, Lund and Uppsala, it is one of Scandinavia's leading institutions of legal education and research.
  Prior to 1811, the University of Copenhagen was the only university of Denmark-Norway, and the curriculum of the new law faculty in Christiania was based on that of the University of Copenhagen Faculty of Law and long retained strong similarities, even after the dissolution of the Dano-Norwegian union in 1814. As the only faculty of law in Norway until 1980, it traditionally educated all lawyers of Norway and remains the country's most important law faculty, educating around 75% of all new legal candidates in Norway. Its law programme is one of the most competitive programmes to get into at any Norwegian university, with an acceptance rate of 12%. The faculty offers education and conducts research in both law and in related areas such as criminology and sociology of law, and historically also in economics.
context_section_description: Prior to 1990, all professors (i.e. full professors, the only ones who are called "professors" in Norway) were appointed by the King-in-Council to their chairs, but today, new Professors are appointed directly by the Faculty of Law. The positions below that of professor are called dosent (reader, abolished in 1985), førsteamanuensis (associate professor), and universitetslektor or amanuensis (lecturer or assistant professor). Temporary, qualifying positions are postdoktor (senior research fellow) and stipendiat (a research fellow enrolled in a doctoral programme). A small number of employees hold the title forsker (researcher) and usually have no teaching obligations; their formal qualifications may vary from the assistant professor level to the full professor level. Full professors with part-time positions (20% or less) are called professor II, but otherwise hold the same status as other professors; usually such professors hold a chair or main position at a different university or research institution.
  Academics of note include
  Law
  Claus Winter Hjelm
  Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne
  Francis Hagerup
  Frederik Stang
  Fredrik Stang
  Frede Castberg
  Johannes Andenæs
  Torstein Eckhoff
  Carl August Fleischer
  Mads H. Andenæs
  Tove Stang Dahl
  Jon Bing
  Peter Lødrup
  Frederik Zimmer
  Tone Sverdrup
  Lucy Smith
  Carsten Smith
  Eivind Smith
  Knut Selmer
  Sjur Brækhus
  Thor Falkanger
  Kirsti Strøm Bull
  Anders Bratholm
  Birger Stuevold Lassen
  Viggo Hagstrøm
  Henning Jakhelln
  Anne Hellum
  Economics
  Anton Martin Schweigaard (Professor of Jurisprudence, Economics, and Statistics)
  Torkel Halvorsen Aschehoug (Professor of Jurisprudence, Economics, and Statistics)
  Oskar Jæger
  Ragnar Frisch
  Ingvar Wedervang
  Johan Einarsen
  Criminology and Sociology of Law
  Nils Christie
  Thomas Mathiesen
  Vilhelm Aubert
  Kjersti Ericsson
caption: Bredo Henrik von Munthe af Morgenstierne, Professor of Jurisprudence from 1889, who served as the university's Rector and ex officio Dean of the Faculty of Law 1912–1918 (historically, the Rector was also Dean of his own faculty).
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