Marius Storvik
Job description
Marius Storvik has a broad background in both teaching and research. His research interests focus on human rights, welfare law, mental health care, health law, child welfare law, and compensation law. He is particularly interested in investigating how these areas interact and affect each other, and how they can contribute to improving the quality of life for people. He also participates in the research council project "The complexity of coercion in child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP)" and a research project on setting boundaries and the use of coercion towards children in foster homes.
Marius has also lectured in welfare law, sociology of law, and European Human Rights Law. He has experience as a seminar teacher in subjects such as constitutional law, inheritance law, tort law, legal history, welfare law, method, and sociology of law. In addition to teaching at the Faculty of Law, he has also taught courses in health law, human rights, ethics, child welfare law, and research communication at other faculties at UiT.
He has supervised more than 30 master's thesis in law and is co-supervisor for two PhD students.
Marius is committed to conveying complex legal issues in an understandable and interesting way. He has conveyed much research through both external lectures and the media. In addition to this, he is also a podcast host together with Gunnar Eriksen for Juss & Jåss, where they discuss different judgements and share insight into their research and teaching. This shows his ability to convey complex legal topics in a clear and accessible way, making them more accessible for students and the general public.
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Research interests
Marius Storvik's main interest is in issues related to coercion, human rights and welfare law. This specifically includes people who are particularly vulnerable within healthcare services, including mental health, children, dementia patients and individuals with developmental disabilities. Outside of healthcare services, this includes areas such as child welfare law, social law and welfare law.
He is particularly interested in investigating the legal systems role in how these areas interact and affect each other, and how the the legal system can contribute to improving the quality of life for people. He is also interested in how the reparative function of compensation law can contribute to ensuring justice.
Teaching
Marius Storvik has a broad background in teaching welfare law, sociology of law and European Human Rights Law. He also has experience as a seminar teacher in subjects such as constitutional law, inheritance law, tort law, legal history, welfare law, method and sociology of law.
In addition to teaching at the Faculty of Law, he has also taught courses in health law, human rights, ethics, child welfare law and research communication at other faculties at UiT.
Marius is committed to conveying complex legal issues in an understandable and interesting way. He has also supervised more than 30 master's thesis and currently co-supervising two Ph.D. students.