Professor dr juris (Universitetet i Bergen, 2013-)

Doktorgrad i folkerett (Universitetet i Bergen, 1999)

Mastergrad i internasjonale rettsstudier (LL.M, Harvard Law School, 1989)

Cand jur (Universitetet i Bergen, 1986)

Senior Research Associate (University of London, 2014-)

Advokat (H) (Humlen Advokater AS, 2014-)

Styremedlem (vara), International Commission of Jurists (ICJ Norge, 2016-)

Lagdommer (Gulating lagmannsrett, 2000-2013)

Leder og medlem av Dommerforeningens menneskerettsutvalg (2006-2013)

Fast medlem av Utlendingsnemndas stornemnd (2005-2010)

1) Om Snowden mv (utvalgte innlegg, motinnlegg og kommentarer)

• Terje Einarsen og Aslak Syse, Nomination of Kathryn Bolkovac, Arundhati Roy, Edward Snowden, Nobel Peace Prize 2017, see Nobel Peace Prize Watch
• Terje Einarsen, Nomination, Edward Snowden, Nobel Peace Prize 2015
• Nobel Peace Price Watch, see Candidates 2015
• Citizenfour -- Overvåket av storebror, Filmens hus, Oslo, 21.04.2015
• Terje Einarsen, Nomination, Edward Snowden, Nobel Peace Prize 2014
• Janne Haaland Matlary (UiO), VG Kronikk: Fortjener ikke fredsprisen, 26.06.2014 
• Terje Einarsen, Snowden fortjener fredsprisen, VG Meninger, 01.07.2014 
• ICJ Norway, Declaration of Support for professor, dr juris Terje Einarsen's nomination of Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize 2014
• Jurister mener Snowden bør få fredsprisen, NRK Nyheter, 22.06.2014
• PRIO Blogs, What if the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Snowden?
• Aftenposten (Oslo,) Editorial, The Peaze Prize for Snowden
• 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
• En viktig fredspris, Andreas Wiese, Kommentator i Dagbladet, 25.06.2014
• Fredsprisen til Snowden! Joacim Lund, Kommentator i Aftenposten, 23.09.2014
• - Lite sannsynlig at Snowden får asyl i Norge, nrk.no, 03.07.2013

2) Om internasjonale forbrytelser ('Universal Crimes')

• Vestens ansvar for egne torturforbrytelser, artikkel i Klassekampen 28.02.2015, se "Filer" til høyre ("Torturforbrytelser").
• Tar Vesten ansvar for egne torturforbrytelser? CMI.no 28.02.2015
• Torturforbudet, CIA og EMD, Foredrag for Amnesty Student Bergen, 21.02.2015
• Universal Crimes and the CIA Torture Program, commissioned article published 15 January 2015, at the Expert Desk of the A38 Blog
• Konferanse om universale brotsverk, Nyhetsarkiv april 2014, UiB
• 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?

3) Om flyktningkrisen

• Asylretten - vår livsforsikring, Ideer Debatt, artikkel i Klassekampen, 02.02.2016, se under "Filer"
• Et land for flyktninger, Intervju ved Frode Bjerkås, Minerva, 11.11.2015 
• Hvordan løse flyktningkrisen? Kronikk, NRK Ytring, 20.04.2015
• Mass Flight: The Case for International Asylum, International Journal of Refugee Law, 1995, pp. 551-578. See Isabelle Swerissen (2013).
• Intervju flyktningkrisen, Klassekampen, 21.04.2014, se under "Filer" til høyre ("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) Diverse andre rettslige og allmenne emner

• 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
• Debatt: En rettferdig innvandringspolitikk? Kvarteret, Bergen, 28.01.2015
• 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
• Palestinere på flukt: Skal Norge være en trygg havn? Oslo 07.10.2014
• Menneskerettighetsuken i Bergen: Asylbarn og asylpolitikk - Internasjonalt, nasjonalt og lokalt, Bergen, 24.09.2014  
• Vil kutte bistand til land som bryter menneskerettighetene, dn.no, 02.05.2014
• 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

Rettsstat og menneskerettigheter

Masteroppgaver

Veileder PhD

Utvalgte publikasjoner på norsk og engelsk (for flere publikasjoner på engelsk, velg 'English' versjon av hjemmesiden):

• 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

• Plenumsdommene om domstolsprøving: Kan barnets beste interesser være underlagt forvaltningens frie skjønn? Jussens Venner, Hefte 5 2013, vol. 48, s. 287-319.
  Artikkelen kan lastes ned som Pdf her (Terje Einarsen (2013).

• Asylbarndommene i Norges Høyesterett, i Protecting the Rights of Others -- Festskrift til Jens Vedsted-Hansen, DJØF PUBLISHING, København 2013, s. 487-516.

• 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.

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

Monografier (utvalgte):

• 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, in Journal of Internationa Criminal Justice; in Journal of International Criminal Law 12/2014. Kanya Satwika, Nordic Journal of Human Rights 01/2013.

• RETTEN TIL VERN SOM FLYKTNING. Med hovedvekt på FNs flyktningebegrep -- de historiske traktatforutsetninger og gjeldende rett. Cicero Publisher, Bergen 2000. (Kan bestilles ved henvendelse til terje.einarsen@jur.uib.no).

Anmeldelser av boken, se: Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap; Lov og Rett; Nordic Journal of Human Rights.

Utvalgte andre arbeider på engelsk:

• 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.
• 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 driver blant annet et langsiktig forskningsarbeid innen internasjonal (folkerettslig) strafferett:

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.