Curriculum vitae

1 Summary

Professor of Political Philosophy at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. Ph.D. 1991 in Philosophy, Harvard University. Co-Director of the Norwegian Centre of Excellence PluriCourts for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of of the Judiciary in the Global Order (2013-2024). Principal Investigator, European Research Council Advanced Grant MultiRights 2011-16, on the legitimacy of multi-level human rights judiciary. Research Coordinator at the Norwegian Centre of Excellence for the Study of Mind in Nature – CSMN. Publishes on a variety of issues concerning Human Rights, Globalisation, Democracy, and Europeanisation. Fellow of The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

2 Education

1991	Ph.D., Philosophy, Harvard University: The Significance of National Boundaries for International Distributive Justice. Advisers: John Rawls and T. M. Scanlon; Amartya K. Sen for relevant chapters
1986	A.M. Philosophy, Harvard University
1982	Mag. Art. Philosophy, University of Oslo. Thesis: John Rawls’s Theory of Civil Disobedience. Minor fields: Sociology, Psychology
1981	Philosophy 80 poäng, University of Uppsala, Sweden

3 Employment and Academic Qualifications

Academic

2013-	Professor, Co-Director, PluriCourts, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo
2001-	Professor, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo
2000	(Acknowledged competence at the Full Professor level in the field of Political Science)
1999-2005	Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo
1994-2005	Research Professor and Coordinator, Research Group on Normative Theory, ARENA (Centre for Advanced Research on the Europeanisation of the Nation-State)

Administrative Experience

2013- 2024	Director / Co-Director, PluriCourts Centre of Excellence, Research Council of Norway
2011- 2016	Principal Investigator, MultiRights, European Research Council Advanced Grant
2004- 2010	Director of Research, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo
2006	Academic Director (acting), Ethics Programme University of Oslo
1994-2000	Coordinator, Research Group on Normative Theory, ARENA
1991-94	Director, Norwegian National Committee on Research Ethics in Social Sciences and Humanities (NESH)
1986-91	Teaching Fellow, Harvard University
1985-91	Assistant Senior Tutor, Currier House, Harvard University (part time)

4 Offices, Service

	Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
2016	Chair of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
2015-	The Council for Animal Ethics [Rådet for dyreetikk], Alternate
2015-	Ethics Advisory Council [Etikkutvalg],Norwegian School of Sports Sciences
2014-2017	Board of Directors, U.S.- Norway Fulbright Foundation
2014-16	Advisory Board (Direksjonen) The Norwegian Polytechnic Society
2004-2010	Council on Ethics, Norwegian Government Pension Fund – Global
2002-2006	Vice Chair, Ethics Programme, University of Oslo
2002	Board, Program for Curriculum Reform, Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo.
2001-2003	Board, Center for Medical Ethics, University of Oslo
2001-2006	Advisory Council, “Mitt livs testamente” (Association for Advance Directives and issues of voluntary Euthanasia)
2001	Board of Norwegian Institute for Human Rights (Alternate)
1999-2001	Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board (Bioteknologinemnda)
1994-99	Board, Fulbright Alumni Association of Norway
1997- 98	Working Group on Integrating Ethics in the Curriculum, Norwegian School of Management
1993	Working Group on Research on Ethics, University of Oslo

Journal Editorial Boards

European Political Science, European Union Politics, Living Reviews in Democracy, Teoria Politica, Research and Politics

Academic and Research Committees

2007-2015	Board, International Political Theory, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR).
2001-2010	Board, International Political Science Association (IPSA) Research Committee 3 – On European Unification
2003-2006	International Board, Research Program on ‘Democracy. Scope, Limits and Justification’, Sweden

Evaluation Committees

	Expert, European Commission, European Research Council
	Expert/Referee, Research Council of Norway; Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO); Swiss National Science Foundation; The Research Foundation of Flanders (FWO); Riksbankens jubileumsfond, Stockholm;
2008-10	Expert, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy New York
1999-	Referee, Fulbright and Norge-Amerikaforeningen
2011	Professorship, Turku University
2005	Professorship, Saami University College
2004	The Philosophy Departments in Sweden
2004	Professorship, Freie Universität Berlin
2004	Associate Professorship, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo
2003	Professorship, Roskilde University Denmark

Referee/Manuscript Consultant – recent, incomplete

Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Sage, Palgrave …
American Political Science Review (APSR) 2011, 2008; Analyse und Kritik 2011; Comparative Social Research 2002; Conflict and Cooperation, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP) 2005, 2005; Economics and Philosophy 2001; Ethics 2015; Ethics and International Affairs 2003; Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 2004; European Integration online Papers 2001, 2004; European Journal of Political Theory 2015; European Union Politics (EUP) 2006; Global Constitutionalism 2012; International Journal of Constitutional Law 2017, Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS) 2011; Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP) 2016, 2011, 2006, 2002; Journal of Peace Research 2000, 2004; Journal of Political Philosophy 2016, 2012, 2011, 2007, 2007, 2005, 2004; Journal of Politics 2016; Law and Philosophy 2016; PS: Political Science & Politics 2017; Political Studies 2004, 2003, 2001; Politics, Philosophy and Economics 2017; Regional and Federal Studies 2008; Theoria 2007, 2002; Nordic Journal on Human Rights/ Mennesker og rettigheter 2007, 2001; Tidsskrift for trygdeforskning 2005, Internasjonal politikk 2001, Tidsskrift for Samfunnsforskning, TANO forlag, Velfærd 2016.

5 Research Projects

Ongoing

2013-2022

Director/Co-Director of the Norwegian Centre of Excellence PluriCourts for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of of the Judiciary in the Global Order. The Research Council of Norway.

Book Series

2013	Cambridge Studies on International Courts and Tribunals, co-editor with Geir Ulfstein, Cambridge University Press.
2010	Cambridge Studies on Human Rights Conventions, co-editor with Geir Ulfstein, Cambridge University Press.
2010	Citizenship Transitions, Routledge, co-editor with Michele Micheletti, Dietlind Stolle and Jonas Tallberg
2007	Contemporary European Politics, Consulting Editor, Cambridge University Press
	Studies on Global Justice, Springer
1998-2009	Themes in European Governance, Founding Series Editor (with J. P. Olsen), Cambridge University Press

Leadership/Participation in Past Research Projects

2007International Effective,Legitimate – or both? /IVR World Congress, Cracow Aug 1-6

2011-16	Principal Investigator MultiRights – The Legitimacy of Multi-Level Human Rights Judiciary European Research Council Advanced Grant
2009-10	Should States Ratify Human Rights Conventions? Centre for Advanced Study.
2007-2013	Research Coordinator Centre of Excellence for the Study of Mind in Nature University of Oslo
2004-	Coordinator, Task force on Legitimacy and Democracy, NEWGOV, EU Integrated Project (EUI, Florence).
2004-	Member, CONNEX, EU Network of Excellence (Mannheim)
–	Member, GARNET, EU Network (Warwick).
2003-4	Fulbright New Century Scholar
2003-4	Member, Council of Europe Integrated Project on The Future of Democracy in Europe
2003-5	Member, NODE project, Vienna: Governance, Territoriality and Welfare Regimes [Result]
2001-5	Coordinator, “Accommodating Difference” – Research Council of Norway.[Result]
2001	Union Citizenship. [Published] With Neil McCormick.
2001	Sami Claims to Land and Water. [Published]
2000	“Når noen er likere enn andre” (“When some are more equal than others”), Research Council of Norway. In cooperation with Centre against Ethnic Discrimination (Senter mot etnisk diskriminering), Oslo
2000	International Justice (Hinsides Hakkebakkeskogen), with the Institute for Human Rights. Published in Norsk Statsvitenskapelig Tidsskrift 2001, 2.
1999	Can Salmon Suffer? Research project, Research Council of Norway [Result]
1998-2000	Coordinator of Norwegian team in EU-project EURCIT – on European Citizenship
1994-2000	Coordinator, Research Group on Normative Theory, ARENA Responsibilities for running the Research Group, including a seminar, arranging conferences, editing books and journal special issues on normative issues pertaining to Europeanisation
1995.	“Europeanisation and Normative Political Theory”. Position Paper – ARENA Working Paper 1/95.1997
1997	Restructuring the Welfare State: Theory and Practice of Social Policy. With Peter Koslowski [Published Springer]
1997	Democracy and the European Union. With Peter Koslowski. [Published]

Conference and Seminar Responsibilities

in addition to PluriCourts/MultiRights activities

2013	Section on Political Philosophy, 23rd World Congress of Philosophy, Athens
2012	The Legitimacy of international law and courts, University of Oslo
2011	Rawls’ A Theory of Justice at 40, University of Oslo
2010	Legitimacy of Human Rights Treaty Organs – Paris
2009	On Chaim Gans Just Zionism, Association for Israel Studies Conferenec, Beer sheva, Israel
–	Panel on Chaim Gans’ Just Zionism, American Political Science Association, Toronto
–	The Effects of Human Rights Treaty Ratification. EUI Florence
2008	The Contributions of Human Rights Institutions. NCHR/CSMN Workshop
–	On Nordic Human Rights Judicial Review NOPSA, Tromsø [Publication]
–	On Legitimacy in Normative Political Philosophy, Paris
2006	The Democratic Theory of ‘New Modes of Governance’ in Europe, Panel, IPSA World Congress, Japan
–	Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations, Council on Ethics of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund, Oslo. [Publication]
2005	The calls for a European Identity, ECPR Budapest
2004	Political Consumerism, Conference, Oslo.
–	ECPR Workshop on National Traditions of Democratic Thought, Uppsala.
2003	Global Justice University of Oslo Ethics Programme. [Publication]
2003	ECPR Workshop on Legitimate Federation? Edinburgh. [Publication].
–	Round Table on European Citizenship, EURESCO Conference, Maratea, Italy
–	Norwegian Conference in Political Science, section on normative political theory
2002	APSA – Political Theory and the European Union
–	Nordic Network on Political Theory, Oslo.
2000	On Religion in the Public Schools, Oslo.
–	Hinsides Hakkebakkeskogen – Internasjonal rettferdighet University of Oslo, Department of Philosophy and Institute of Human Rights. [Publication Norsk Statsvitenskapelig Tidsskrift 2001 , 2].
–	Theories of Democracy for Europe: Principles and Preconditions. International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Bergen.
1999	Can Salmon Suffer? University of Oslo, Department of Philosophy. [Publication].
1998	Sub-sovereign Nations. Minorities in Europe. European Consortium for Social Research, Warwick; with Lukas Meyer/Bremen.
–	Roundtable on European Citizenship. World Congress of Philosophy, Boston. [Publication].
1996	Democracy and the EU. with Peter Koslowski/Hannover. [Publication].
1995	National Conference in Political Science, section on normative political theory.
–	The Welfare State Under Siege? Hannover, Germany, With Peter Koslowski. [Publication Springer 1997].
1994	The Fourth International Conference on Ethics in the Public Service, Stockholm. Member of Planning Committee.
–	ARENA Conference on Europeanisation and Normative Political Theory, Oslo.
1993	The European Business Ethics Network (EBEN), Oslo Conference. [Publication].
–	Nordic Workshop on Research Ethics Lillehammer, Norway. Publication 1995.
1990	Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Cambridge, Mass., USA. Secretary at the founding meeting.

6 Teaching

2010	The Legitimacy of Human Rights Conventions – NordForsk PhD Course, Iceland
2008	How should we understand human rights, with Thomas Pogge, Oslo, with Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature. [Publication as special issue in J Soc Phil]
1999	Global Ethics, with Thomas Pogge, The Ethics Program/The Research Council of Norway

Department of Philosophy at the University of Oslo:

1999, 2001	The Political Theory of the European Union – offered jointly with Dept. of Political Science
2000, 2001	Introductory Course in Ethics.
1993	John Rawls: Political Liberalism
1992	Freedom, Equality and Consent in recent contractualist theories

Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo:

1999	Multilevel governance: positive and normative analysis. With prof. Midgaard
1992, 94	Normative political theory, shared responsibilities.

Norwegian School of Management (BI), Oslo:

1991,93,94

Ethics in Management, for mid-career MBA students.

Teaching fellow

Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.:

1991	Professor Dennis Thompson: Political Ethics and Public Policy,
1990	Professor Roger Fisher: Negotiation Workshop, Program of Instruction for Lawyers, Harvard Law School.
1987	Professor Stanley Hoffmann: Ethics and International Relations
1986	Professor Sissela Bok: Moral Choice and Personal Responsibility
1985, 87	Professor Michael Sandel: Justice

PhD Advising

Ole Frithjof Norheim
Lars Fjell Hansson
Jakob Elster
Malcolm Langford
Nino Tsereteli
Anine Kierulf
Michael Reinertsen

7 Grants, Fellowships, Visiting Scholar

Grants

2013-23	PluriCourts Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order Rights Research Council of Norway Centre of Excellence [appr. EUR 19 mill/NOK 175 mill + from U Oslo]
2011-16	MultiRights – The Legitimacy of Multi-Level Human Rights Judiciary European Research Council Advanced Grant [≈EUR 2.5 mill. + ≈ EUR 2.9 mill matching from Norwegian Ministry of Research]
2009-2014	Should States Ratify Human Rights Conventions? FRIHUMSAM grant from the Research Council of Norway for two PostDocs [NOK 5 620 000]
2009-2010	Should States Ratify Human Rights Conventions? Centre for Advanced Study, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. [EUR 730000]
2004-	Coordinator, Democracy Task Force, EU Project on New Modes of Governance, NEWGOV
2003	New Century Scholar, Fulbright [$41,500]
1998-2000	Norwegian Coordinator, EU Project on European Citizenship EURCIT.
1997	Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators Association (NFF)
1990-91	Graduate Fellow, Program in Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University.
1988-90	Stipend, Research Council of Norway.
1983-88	Harvard University Grant selected years.
1983-84	Fulbright Fellowship.
1982-85	Doktorandstipend, University of Uppsala, Sweden.

Visiting Scholar:

2016	Australian National University, Canberra
2011	Wissenschaftzentrum Berlin; UC Berkeley Law School
2005, 06	The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
1997-9,2000-3	Repeat, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
1999	University of Florence, Italy
1987-88	Affiliate, Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School

8 Lectures and Presentations

Updated list

9 Academic Publications

Many available at SSRN – Author 1505725 | Complete, updated list

10 Contributions to public debate