Vision 

The Faculty of Law will be a visible and key contributor to the advancement of the rule of law and legal competence in society. The faculty will be a hub for legal knowledge, with a comprehensive professional network at the regional, national and international level.  

• Through research, education and dissemination, the faculty will develop and share legal knowledge of high international quality and with special focus on the High North.  
• The faculty will contribute to fulfilling UiT The Arctic University of Norway’s strategy Developing the High North.  
• The faculty will ensure that legal research contributes to value creation and sustainable development in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. 

Areas of priority 

The Faculty will be at the international forefront in the Law of the Sea, Environmental Law, Sami and Indigenous Peoples’ Law and educational quality. 

The faculty’s research activities are mainly organised in six research groups; Sami- and indigenous peoples law, Child law, Constitutional law (only in Norwegian), Administrative law (only in Norwegian), Law on Property rights (only in Norwegian) and Crime Control and Security law. It is also home to the Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea (NCLOS), a world leading research environment on the Law of the Sea.  

The faculty publishes the Arctic Review, an interdisciplinary journal that publishes articles in law and politics, related to resource issues, administration, indigenous peoples’ and the environment in the Arctic.

Visiting Researchers

Are you interested in visiting the Faculty of Law, UiT the Arctic University of Norway?

UiT Faculty of Law/UiT Norwegian Centre for the Law of the Sea hosts guest researchers who are either employed at a higher education institution or affiliated to a PhD-program at such an institution and wish to conduct research while visiting our Faculty. The Faculty does not provide paid fellowships.

Application Procedure: Use this application form as only applications submitted through the form will be considered. The applications will be evaluated based on the scientific quality of previous research, references, and our hosting capacities during your preferred period of stay.

You may find helpful information for incoming researchers on these websites: https://en.uit.no/staffmobility