Marius Emberland
Professor - Department of Law and Governance
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Biography
Marius Emberland is professor at the Department of law and governance, specializing in public and international law. His main teaching assignments at BI are with the five-year Master of laws programme, concentrating on the law of civil procedure, constitutional law, and international law, including human rights.
He joined the BI faculty in 2023. He was previously associate professor at the Faculty of law at the University of Oslo, but the decade and a half prior to his moving to BI he worked for the Norwegian Government, first at the Legal Affairs Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then as attorney for the Norwegian Government at the Office of the Attorney General for Civil Affairs, where he inter alia for ten years served as Norway's Government Agent before the European Court of Human Rights and other international human rights bodies, and finally, prior to called to BI, as chief analyst at the Ministry of Justice and Public Security. He has also served as acting appeals court judge at the Borgarting High Court in Oslo. He is presently part of the editorial committees of two Norwegian law jornals (Lov og rett, and Kritisk Juss), and has formerly had similar roles at the Nordic Journal of International Law and Harvard International Law Journal. He has been editor-in-chief of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights.
Marius has litigated more than a hundred cases on behalf of ministries of the Norwegian Government in domestic courts on a variety of matters, including more than 15 cases before the Supreme Court of Norway. Several of them are seminal judgments in the corpus of the Supreme Court. He has litigated many cases before the European Court of Human Rights, in his capacity of Norway's Agent, and also cases before the European Court of Justice and the EFTA Court. He was part of Norway's legal team in the first BIT arbitration case ever against Norway under ICSID in the case of SIA North Star Ltd. v. Norway in 2020-2023.
Marius has his basic five-year masters of law degree (cand.jur.) from the University of Oslo, and he also holds an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School. He has a doctorate in law (D.Phil.) from the University of Oxford on a dissertation concerning the protection of companies' and shareholders' interests under the European Convention on Human Rights (published as "The Human Rights of Companies: Exploring the Structure of ECHR Protection" by Oxford University Press).
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He joined the BI faculty in 2023. He was previously associate professor at the Faculty of law at the University of Oslo, but the decade and a half prior to his moving to BI he worked for the Norwegian Government, first at the Legal Affairs Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then as attorney for the Norwegian Government at the Office of the Attorney General for Civil Affairs, where he inter alia for ten years served as Norway's Government Agent before the European Court of Human Rights and other international human rights bodies, and finally, prior to called to BI, as chief analyst at the Ministry of Justice and Public Security. He has also served as acting appeals court judge at the Borgarting High Court in Oslo. He is presently part of the editorial committees of two Norwegian law jornals (Lov og rett, and Kritisk Juss), and has formerly had similar roles at the Nordic Journal of International Law and Harvard International Law Journal. He has been editor-in-chief of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights.
Marius has litigated more than a hundred cases on behalf of ministries of the Norwegian Government in domestic courts on a variety of matters, including more than 15 cases before the Supreme Court of Norway. Several of them are seminal judgments in the corpus of the Supreme Court. He has litigated many cases before the European Court of Human Rights, in his capacity of Norway's Agent, and also cases before the European Court of Justice and the EFTA Court. He was part of Norway's legal team in the first BIT arbitration case ever against Norway under ICSID in the case of SIA North Star Ltd. v. Norway in 2020-2023.
Marius has his basic five-year masters of law degree (cand.jur.) from the University of Oslo, and he also holds an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School. He has a doctorate in law (D.Phil.) from the University of Oxford on a dissertation concerning the protection of companies' and shareholders' interests under the European Convention on Human Rights (published as "The Human Rights of Companies: Exploring the Structure of ECHR Protection" by Oxford University Press).
You may follow him at LinkedIn.
Publications
Emberland, Marius (2023)
Om "innlegg til belysning av allmenne interesser" etter tvisteloven § 15-8 i lys av nyere praksis
Jussens venner, 58(1), s. 35- 72. Doi: 10.18261/jv.58.1.2
Emberland, Marius (2022)
Kommentarer til lov om styrking av menneskerettighetenes stilling i norsk rett 21. mai 1999 nr. 30 §§ 1 til og med 6
Karnov lovkommentarer
Emberland, Marius (2022)
Stille EMK nå krav om skyld ved straff? Merknader til Høyesteretts dom 15. april 2021 (HR-2021-797-A)
Lov og Rett, 61(2), s. 97- 116. Doi: 10.18261/lor.61.2.4
Emberland, Marius (2020)
Om kravet til likebehandling når forvaltningen treffer enkeltvedtak som beror på rettsanvendelsesskjønn
Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap, 133(4), s. 349- 392. Doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3096-2020-04-01
Emberland, Marius & Jorem, Henrik (2025)
Sikkerhetslovens betydning for norsk næringsliv
Magma forskning og viten, s. 89- 97.
Boucht, Per Johan Petersson & Emberland, Marius (2024)
Om "mental link" som vilkår for straff etter EMK art. 7 ifølge G.I.E.M. S.r.l. mfl. mot Italia (2018)
Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap, 137(4), s. 649- 693. Doi: 10.18261/tfr.137.4.2
Boucht, Per Johan Petersson & Emberland, Marius (2024)
Om «mental link» som vilkår for straff etter EMK art. 7 ifølge G.I.E.M. S.r.l. mfl. mot Italia (2018)
Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap, 137(4), s. 549- 693. - Full text in research archive
Emberland, Marius (2023)
Kommentarer til Lov om etterretningstjenesten, Karnov lovkommentarer (2023)
Karnov lovkommentarer
Emberland, Marius (2020)
Om EMKs stilling og betydning for å sikre bedre beskyttelse av menneskerettighetene i det norske rettssystemet
Retfærd. Nordisk Juridisk Tidsskrift, 165(1), s. 17- 37.
Emberland, Marius (2024)
Skriftlige innlegg til belysning av allmenne interesser, intervju/deltakelse i episode av Dommerpodden
Dommerpodden [Radio]
Emberland, Marius (2006)
Slik kan PST overvåke deg Videre fullmakter gjør det lettere for PST å avlytte deg. Kommentar til Hans-Inge Langø i forbindelse med avlyttingen av terrormistenkte i Oslo
Tv2 Nettavisen [Internett]
Emberland, Marius (2006)
Debattdeltakelse om menneskerettigheter idag, med Tore Lindholm, Senter for menneskerettigheter og Petter Eide, Amnesty Norge. Programleder Kristin Moksnes
NRKP2 "Sånn er livet" [Radio]
Emberland, Marius & Lindholm, Tore (2006)
Intervju i programmet 'Sånn er livet': Retorikk og realiteter - norsk menneskerettighetsdebatt på et sidespor?
NRK P2 [Radio]
Emberland, Marius (2006)
Bredt flertall for vern mot diskriminering. (Intervju, Mattis Michaelsen, Senter for seniorpolitikks websted
www.seniorpolitikk.no [Internett]
Emberland, Marius (2024)
National Study analysing existing national execution mechanisms and identifying best practices and effective models in light of Recommendation CM/Rec(2008)2- Norway
[Report]. Council of Europe Human Rights Trust Fund.
Emberland, Marius (2024)
Departementsfellesskapets arbeid med internasjonale menneskerettigheter som berører norsk rett og politikkutforming
[Report]. Justis- og beredskapsdepartementet.
Emberland, Marius (2024)
Om uttalelser fra internasjonale menneskerettighetsorganer
[Academic lecture]. Ryssdal-seminaret 2024.
Emberland, Marius (2023)
"Norsk sektormonisme" (presentasjon av foreløpige funn i arbeid om såkalte sektormonisme i norsk rett)
[Academic lecture]. IntNatLaw åpningskonferanse.
Bjørge, Eirik & Emberland, Marius (2011)
Hvor alvorlig tas EMK og EMDs tolkingsmetode i Europa? Tre eksempler til etterfølgelse
[Academic lecture]. Europarettsforum.
| Year | Academic Department | Degree |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | University of Oxford | D.Phil. |
| 1999 | Harvard Law School | Master of Laws |
| 1996 | University of Oslo | Master Cand. Jur. |
| Year | Employer | Job Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 - Present | BI Norwegian Business School | Professor |
| 2024 - 2024 | Ministry of Justice | Chief analyst |
| 2024 - 2024 | Council of Europe | Consultant |
| 2024 - 2024 | Aker BP ASA | Expert |
| 2024 - 2024 | Deloitte | Informal adviser |
| 2024 - 2024 | Charles University Prague | Member of Phd/habiliation committee |
| 2021 - 2024 | Karnov Group | Editor |
| 2022 - 2023 | Ministry of Justice | Chief analyst (utredningsleder) |
| 2008 - 2022 | Office of Attorney General (Civil Affairs) | Attorney |
| 2005 - 2009 | University of Oslo, Faculty of Law | Associate professor |
| 2007 - 2008 | Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Senior legal advisor |
| 2003 - 2005 | University of Oslo, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights | Legal advisor |
| 1998 - 2000 | University of Oslo, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights | Researcher |