Curriculum Vitae & List of Publications

Jørn RT Jacobsen
Faculty of Law, University of Bergen

Personal Information:

Date of Birth: 15th of June, 1977.
Civil Status: Married, two children
 

Education:

2003: Cand. Jur., Faculty of Law, University of Bergen.

Experience:

Aug. 2001 – Aug. 2002: Junior Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen.

Jan. 2003 – July 2004: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen.

March, 2004: Held the Memorial Speeches Together with Professor Nils Christie for the Late Professor Johs. Andenæs in the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 11th of March 2004.

Aug. 2004 - June 2008: Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen. The project was part of the program Pre-aktiv strafferett (“Pre-active criminal law”) lead by Professor Erling Johannes Husabø, funded by The Norwegian Research Council. The thesis “Fragment til forståing av den rettsstatlege strafferetten” (“Fragments concerning the Criminal Law in a Rechtsstaat”), 745 p. including English summary and list of references, was submitted the 23rd of June, 2008.

Aug. 2006 – Jan. 2009: Visiting Faculty of Law, Lunds University, Sweden

Sept. 2008 – Feb. 2009: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Bergen

Oct. 2008: Named Future Research Leader by the Bergen Research Foundation and received funding for the Programme Criminal Law Theory – A New Norwegian Approach.

Mar. 2009 –: Project Leader for the Programme Criminal Law Theory – A New Norwegian Approach, The Faculty of Law, University of Bergen. Also holding Post.Doc.-Position within the Programme: Project Named The Crime Doctrine - Prolegomenon to the General Part of Norwegian criminal law
Mar. 2011-: Project Leader together with Linda Gröning for the Research Programme “Theory in Practice: Risks and Responses in Modern Criminal Law”, funded by the Norwegian Research Council

Awards:

Jan. 2009: Awarded the Meltzer Prize for Young Researchers by the Meltzer Fund of the University of Bergen.

May, 2009: Awarded the Fridtjof Nansen Reward for Young Researchers by the Nansen Foundation.

Board membership, assignments and others:

• 2nd Deputy Member of the board of The Faculty of Law, University of Bergen 01.01.2004-31.12.2004, Member of the board 01.01.05-31.07.05.
• Member of the Committee drafting a Strategic Plan for the University of Bergen (2010-2015).
• Current Member of the board of Den norske kriminalistforeningen (2010 - ), Deputy Member of the board of Den norske kriminalistforeningen, 2006-2008.
• Member of the committee developing the new Research School of The Faculty of Law, University of Bergen (17.06.2005-01.06.2006).
• Served as referee for different law journals.
• Member of the Board of Editors for Hubro, a UiB-Magazine (2010-).
• Arranger or Co-arranger Different Symposiums and Workshops, for instance
  • of a one-week workshop in October, 2005, at the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, open for Nordic research fellows in criminal law
  • Co-arranger of a seminar in legal philosophy at the Faculty of Law in 2006.
  • Co-arranger of seminar on “Restorative Justice in Criminal Law”, Faculty of Law, UiB, February 2010.
  • Co-arranger of seminar with Lovavdelingen from the Norwegian Justice Department, May 2010.
  • Co-arranger of seminar on “Crime and Punishment in Time and Space”, Bergen the 14th and 15th of December 2010.
• Different lectures
• Committee leader for evaluation of PhD-thesis (Magne Strandberg, 2010).

List of Publications:

Books:

• Fragment til forståing av den rettsstatlege strafferetten (Bergen, 2009), 721 pages including bibliography. Title in English: Fragments Concerning the Criminal Law in a Democratic Rechtsstaat.
• Dom på overføring til tvungent psykisk helsevern - Straffeloven § 39, Fagbokforlaget (Bergen, 2004), 337 p. including bibliography and index. Title in English: Sentencing to Forced Mental Health Care, § 39 of the Norwegian Criminal Code.
• Menneskevern eller menneskeverd? - Ei innleiing til spørsmålet om allmennprevensjonen sin rettslege legitimitet (Bergen, 2004), 207 p. including bibliography and index. Title in English: Human Dignity or Human Protection? An investigation into the question concerning the legitimacy of general deterrence.

Contributions to books:

• ”The Methodology of the Norwegian Criminal Law Doctrine”, in: Thomas Elholm et.al. (red.): Liber amicarum et amicorum Karin Cornils – Glimt af nordisk straffrätt og straffeprosessrett, København, 2010, pp. 243-266;
• “Strafferetten i en demokratisk rettsstat”, in Jan Fridthjof Bernt & Synne Sæther Mæhle: Rett, samfunn og demokrati - Innledning til juss-studiet, (Oslo, 2007), pp. 306-325. Title in English: “The criminal law in a democratic Rechtsstaat”.

Articles:

• "Some Notes on the Evolution of a General Part for International Criminal Law”, Retfærd, 2/129, 2010, pp. 3-32.
• “Fiksjon utan moral eller konstruksjon utan verdi? Om det ideologiske grunnlaget for straffansvar for juridiske personar", Tidsskrift for Strafferett, No. 1/2009, p. 43-75. Title in English: “Fiction without Morality or Construction without Merits? Regarding the Ideological Foundation of Criminal Responsibility for Legal Persons”.
• ”Diskusjonen om allmennprevensjonen sin faktiske verknad”, Tidsskrift for strafferett, no. 4/2004, p. 394-438. Title in English: “Concerning the discussion on the effects of general deterrence”.
• “Allmennprevensjon og straff”, in The Yearbook of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (Oslo, 2005), p. 294-294-305, also printed in Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab, No. 4/2004, p. 311-320. Title in English: ”General Deterrence and Punishment”.
• ”Om omgrepet “juridisk metode”” - Jussens Venner no. 6/2003, p. 360-375. Title in English: “Concerning “Legal Method””.

Book-reviews:

• of Hans Petter Graver: Juridisk overtalelseskunst (Bergen, 2008) in Retfærd, No. 2/125, 2009 p. 92-99 (in print).
• of Kjell V. Andorsen, Rettsvillfarelse i strafferetten (Bergen, 2005), in Lov og Rett, No 1/2008 p. 48-54.
• of Ståle Eskeland, Strafferett, 2. utgave (Oslo, 2006), in Tidsskrift for strafferett, No. 4/2006, p. 347-358.

Forthcoming Publications

• Restorative Justice and Criminal Justice – Exploring the Relation, Co-editor (with Prof. Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde and Post.doc. Linda Gröning), in print.
• „Andenæs und die Folgen: Anmerkungen zur gegenwärtigen norwegischen Strafrechtsdogmatik”, 26 pages, in print.
• “Pufendorf og den europeiske strafferettsdoktrinen“, in print.

Current projects:

• Post.doc./book-project (in English); The Concept of Crime – A Prolegomenon to A Investigation into the General Part of Norwegian criminal law (to be completed 2012).
• Book project, in English: Criminal Law Theory: Methodological Perspectives, in co-operation with Linda Gröning. This work is planned as a contribution to the methodological reflections within the programme Criminal Law Theory. Date of completion and publishing currently unknown.
• Article project (in Norwegian) on the implications of modernity on criminal law. The article aims at discussing sociological and philosophical conceptions of modernity and the impact of modernity on criminal law. The article will be approximately 25 pages. Date of completion and publishing currently unknown.
   

Contact Information:

Post Address:
Faculty of Law, University of Bergen
Box 7806
5020 Bergen
Norway

E-mail: jorn.jacobsen@jur.uib.no

Phone:
(+47) 55 58 96 42 (office)
(+47) 95 25 49 18 (mobile phone)