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Karl Harald Søvig
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Karl Harald Søvig

Position

Professor

Affiliation

E-mail
karl.sovig@uib.no
Phone number
+47 90636856
+47 55589533
Visitor address
Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1
5010 Bergen
Room: 655
Postal address
P.O. Box 7806
NO-5020 Bergen
Norway

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Karl Harald Søvig

Position

Professor

Affiliation

Research groups

Short info

Former dean (2017-2025) and are at the moment on sabbatical and writing a monography on Norwegian administrative law. Chair of the research group in administrative law.
Research

Biomedical law and social law and administrative law.

Former chair (2017-2023) of the European Association of Health Law.

Guest professor, Changchun University of Science and Technology (2016-2019)

Publications
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2024
2015
2009
2021
2002
2011
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2019
2006
2026
2007
2023
2013
2008
1999
2017
2001
1998

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Selected publications. This selection includes contributions in English or with a summary or abstract in English. For a full list, see https://www.uib.no/personer/Karl.Sovig)

  • Medical Law – Norway, in Internatinal Encyclopedia of Law (series editor Herman Nys), Wolters Kluwer 2022, 152 pp
  • Barry Furrow and Karl Harald Søvig, Medical liability : comparing compensation systems, in The Oxford handbook of comparative health law (eds. David Orentlicher and Tamara Hervey), Oxford University Press, 2022-601
  • Karl Harald Søvig, "Reviewing Medical Decisions Concerning Infants within the Norwegian Healthcare System: A Public Law Approach", in Imogen Goold et al (eds.), Hart Publishing 2020, p. 259-268
  • Søren Birkeland, John Baker, Titti Mattsson, Karl Harald Søvig and Frederik Alkier Gildberg, "Prohibition on research involving psychiatric patients subject to coercion", Kritisk Juss 2020 p. 2-29. Open Access
  • Karl Harald Søvig and Harald Platou, "Country Report: Norway", in Wolf Sauters et al (eds.), The Law and Policy of Healthcare Financing: An International Comparison of Models and Outcomes, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019 p. 386-412.
  • Marit Skivenes, Karl Harald Søvig and Malcolm Langford, "Children's Rights in Norway: An Implementation Paradox?", Universitetsforlaget 2019. Open Access 
  • Marit Skivenes and Karl Harald Søvig (eds.), "Child Rights and International Discrimination Law: Implementing Article 2 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child", Routlegde 2019
  • L Kalokairinou et al, "Legislation of direct-to-consumer genetic testing in Europe: a fragmented regulatory landscape", Journal of Community Genetics, vol. 9, p. 117–132 (2018). Open Access.
  • Karl Harald Søvig, "Article 69. Equal pay for equal work" and "Article 70. Equal treatment of men and women", in Finn Arnesen et al (eds.), Agreement on the European Economic Area - A Commentary, Nomos 2018, p. 677-690
  • Karl Harald Søvig and Marit Skivenes, "Judicial discretion and the child's best interests: the European Court of Human Rights on adoptions in child protection cases", in Elaine Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane, Implementing Article 3 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Cambridge University Press 2016, pp. 341-357
  • Karl Harald Søvig and Marit Skivenes, "Norway - Child welfare decision-making in cases of removals of children", in Kenneth Burns et al (eds.) Child Welfare Removals by the State. A Cross-Country Analysis of Decision-Making Systems, Oxford University Press 2016, pp. 40-64
  • Detention of pregnant women to protect the foetus, in E. Rynning & M. Hartlev (eds.), Nordic Health Law in a European Context (Liber/Brill, 2011) pp. 158-180
  • Provision of Health Services to Irregular Migrants with a Special Focus on Children, European Journal of Health Law, vol. 18 (2011) p. 43-54
  • Tvang overfor rusmiddelavhengige («Coercive measures against alcohol- an drug addicts» (Fagbokforlaget 2007, 476 pages) with a summary in English