Professor of Law (University of Bergen, 2013-)

Ph.d. (Dr juris) in International Law (University of Bergen, 1999)

Master of International Legal Studies (LL.M., Harvard Law School, 1989)

Cand. jur (University of Bergen, 1986)

Senior Research Associate (University of London, 2014-)

Lawyer, Permission to Appear before the Supreme Court (Humlen Advokater AS, Oslo, 2014-), Member of Norwegian Bar Association

Board member, International Commission of Jurists (ICJ Norway, 2016-)

Judge (Gulating High Court, Norway, 2000-2013)

Head and Member of the Human Rights Committee (Norwegian Judges' Association, 2006-2013)

Permanent Member of the Grand Chamber (Immigration Board of Appeals, 2005-2010)

1) On Snowden

• Terje Einarsen og Aslak Syse, Nomination of Kathryn Bolkovac, Arundhati Roy, Edward Snowden, Nobel Peace Prize 2017, see Nobel Peace Prize Watch
• Nomination, Edward Snowden, Nobel Peace Prize 2015
• Nobel Preace Price Watch, see Candidates 2015
• Nomination, Edward Snowden, Nobel Peace Prize 2014
• ICJ Norway, Declaration of Support for professor, dr juris Terje Einarsen's nomination of Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize 2014
• PRIO Blogs, What if the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Snowden?
• Aftenposten (Oslo,) Editorial, The Peaze Prize for Snowden

       Additional items, in Norwegian or Swedish:

• Citizenfour -- Overvåket av storebror, Filmens hus, Oslo, 21.04.2015
• Janne Haaland Matlary (UiO), VG Kronikk: Fortjener ikke fredsprisen, 26.06.2014 
• Terje Einarsen, Snowden fortjener fredsprisen, VG Meninger, 01.07.2014 
• Jurister mener Snowden bør få fredsprisen, NRK Nyheter, 22.06.2014
• Dagens Næringsliv, Leder, Snowden må få fredsprisen, 22.06.2014 
• Dagsavisen (Oslo), Leder, Gi Snowden fredsprisen, 01.07.2014
• Ge Nobels fredspris till Edward Snowden, Aftonbladet, 17.07.2014
• - Lite sannsynlig at Snowden får asyl i Norge, nrk.no, 03.07.2013

2) On Universal Crimes

• Universal Crimes and the CIA Torture Program, commissioned article published 15 January 2015, at the Expert Desk of the A38 Blog
• Accountability for leadership participation in universal crimes and the role of judges, Conference CMI/UiB Bergen 23-24 April 2014
• Understanding Universal Crimes
• Rob Currie, Core Crimes Conference in Bergen
• The International Criminal Court: Global Justice or unfair Treatment of Africans?

       Additional items, in Norwegian:

• Vestens ansvar for egne torturforbrytelser, artikkel i Klassekampen 28.02.2015, se "Filer" til høyre ("torturforbrytelser"). [See "Files" to the right, "torturforbrytelser"]
• Tar Vesten ansvar for egne torturforbrytelser? CMI.no 28.02.2015
• Torturforbudet, CIA og EMD, Foredrag for Amnesty Student Bergen, 21.02.2015
• Konferanse om universale brotsverk, Nyhetsarkiv april 2014, UiB

3) On the Refugee Crisis

• Op ed Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK), How Solve the Refugee Crisis? [in Norwegian, 20. April 2015]
• Mass Flight: The Case for International Asylum, International Journal of Refugee Law, 1995, pp. 551-578. See Isabelle Swerissen (2013).

       Additional items, in Norwegian:

• Intervju flyktningkrisen, Klassekampen, 21.04.2014 [see "Files" to the right, "flyktninger"]
• Båtflyktninger i Middelhavet, NRK Aktuelt (TV), ca. 12 min. ut i sendingen.
• Debatt om løsningsalternativer, Her og Nå, NRK P1 (Radio), del 7
• Debatt om ansvaret for båtflyktningene, Dagsnytt 18, NRK (TV/Radio), del 1

 4) Various other legal and public issues [in Norwegian]

• Taiman-saken for retten, Bergens Tidende, 22.05.2015
• Anundsen lar ikke Shaimaa komme tilbake nå, NTB, nrk.no, 28.04.2015
• - Haster med å hente Shaimaa hjem, Bergens Tidende, 05.04.2015 
• Seier nei til statsborgartest, På Høyden, 23.01.2015
• Snur hver paragraf for å unngå en fri Krekar, Aftenposten, 07.01.2015
• Jussprofessor: - Du har lov å nekte politiet å komme inn, nrk.no, 11.11.2014
• Rettsskandale eller medieskandale? Kronikk, NRK Ytring, 24.02.2014
• - Noen var for varsomme, Fagbladet Journalisten, 15. mars 2014
• - Pressen har en firkantet praksis, Nettavisen, 27.02.2014
• Uakseptabelt fra UiO, Meninger, Dagbladet, 22.08.2013

International Criminal Law

Rule of Law and Human Rights

Student's Master Thesis

Supervision, Ph.D.

Selected Publications in English (For selected publications also in Norwegian, choose 'Norwegian' for home page):

• Terje Einarsen and Marthe Engedahl, The Universal Asylum System and the 2016 New York Declaration: Towards an Improved 'Global Compact' on Refugees? RLI Working Paper No. 16, University of London, in Special Edition,'The Future of Refugee Law' RLI 1st Annual Conference, March 2017, pp. 20-46

• Book Review: Judges Against Justice: On Judges When the Rule of Law is Under Attack (Hans Petter Graver)/Dommernes Krig: Den tyske okkupasjonen 1940-1945 og den norske rettsstaten (Hans Petter Graver), Nordic Journal of Human Rights, Volume 34, 2016 - Issue 3, pp. 222-225

• Jessica Schultz and Terje Einarsen, The Right to Refugee Status and the Internal Protection Alternative: What Does the Law Say? Chapter 12, in Human Rights and the Refugee Definition (Bruce Burson and David James Cantor Eds.), Brill, 2016, pp. 274-321  http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/b9789004288591s013

• Universal Crimes and the CIA Torture Program, commissioned article published 15 January 2015, at the Expert Desk of the A38 Blog

• New Frontiers of International Criminal Law: Towards a Concept of Universal Crimes, Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2013, pp. 1-21.

• THE CONCEPT OF UNIVERSAL CRIMES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW, Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher (TOAEP), Oslo, 2012.FICHL Publication Series No. 14 (2012).
  For reviews of the book, see:
  - Robert. J. Currie, Journal of International Criminal Justice, Advance Access 2013;
  - Kanya Satwika, Nordic Journal of Human Rights 01/2013.

• Book Review: Joseph Rikhof, The Criminal Refugee: The Treatment of Asylum Seekers With a Criminal Background in International and Domestic Law (Republic of Letters Publishing, Dordrecht 2012), in African Journal of Legal Studies 5 (2012), pp. 344-346.

• Drafting History of the 1951 Convention and the 1967 Protocol, in 'The 1951 Convention and its 1967 Protocol -- A Commentary (Andreas Zimmermann, Ed.), Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 37-73. (Review of the book, see Journal of Refugee Studies)

• Article 45 of the 1951 Convention (Revision), in 'The 1951 Convention and its 1967 Protocol -- A Commentary (Andreas Zimmermann, Ed.), Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 1651-1664. (Review of the book, see Journal of Refugee Studies)

• The NATO Bombing Case (Bankovic et al. v. Belgium et al.) and the Limits of Western Human Rights Protection, Boston University International Law Journal, Volume 23, Number 1, Spring 2005, pp. 55-138.

• Mass Flight: The Case for International Asylum, International Journal of Refugee Law, 1995, pp. 551-578. See Isabelle Swerissen (2013).

• The European Convention on Human Rights and the Notion of an Implied Right to de facto Asylum, International Journal of Refugee Law, 1990, pp. 361-389.

Einarsen is head of a long-term research project in international criminal law (ICL):

THE UNIVERSAL CRIMES PROJECT

The 'Universal Crimes Project' is an independent research program founded by Professor Terje Einarsen.

Its purpose is to contribute to the development of laws and mechanisms relevant to combating grave crimes, in compliance with human rights norms and the underlying public interests of international criminal law and criminal justice.

The first output of the Universal Crimes Project is the book:

The Concept of Universal Crimes in International Law, Torkel Opsahl Academic EPublisher (TOAEP), Oslo, 2012. FICHL Publication Series No. 14 (2012).

This book is the first in a four-part series entitled 'Rethinking the Essentials of International Criminal Law and Transitional Justice'. It concentrates on the twin-concepts of 'international crimes' and 'universal crimes', and the general issues involved in classifying certain offences.

For reviews of the book, see:

Robert J. Currie, in Journal of International Criminal Justice; in Journal of International Criminal Law 12/2014.

Kanya Satwika, in Nordic Journal of Human Rights 01/2013.

A second output is an article drawing on the book:

New Frontiers of International Criminal Law: Towards a Concept of Universal Crimes, Bergen Journal of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, Volume 1, Issue 1, Issue 1, 2013, pp. 1-21.

A third output is a commissioned article entitled Universal Crimes and the CIA Torture Program, published 15 January 2015 at the Expert Desk of the A38 Blog. 

Another output was an international expert conference held in Bergen in April 2014 on universal crimes and leaderships, arranged by Terje Einarsen (Law Faculty, UiB) and Elin Skaar (CMI), see: 

• Accountability for leadership participation in universal crimes and the role of judges, Conference CMI/UiB Bergen 23-24 April 2014
• Understanding Universal Crimes
• Rob Currie, Core Crimes Conference in Bergen

A more recent output is a contribution and forthcoming publication on the crime of aggression, see: 

International Experts' Meeting: The Illegal Use of Force: Reconceptualizing the Laws of War, Washington University Law, Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute, St. Louis, USA, September 11.12, 2015

The forthcoming (2016/2017) second volume of the book-series focuses on punishable participation in universal crimes. This book will be co-authored with Dr. Joseph Rikhof, Senior Councel, Manager of the Law, Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Section of the Department of Justice, Canada.

The third and fourth volumes shift attention to the legal consequences of universal crimes: book three focuses on accountability and jurisdiction as important aspects of universal crimes, while the fourth and final book in the series is about fair trial in universal crime cases. The basic research ideas underlying this comprehensive universal crimes project have been developed by the author of this book. The other books are also to be published in cooperation with other analysts.