Øystein Jensen

RESEARCH INTERESTS

General issues of public international law, with a particular focus on law of the sea and international institutional law. Geographic focus on the Polar Regions, especially Norway’s maritime areas. Current substantive research foci include the role of courts and tribunals in the law of the sea, the establishment of maritime limits and boundaries, the role of expert regimes in international law and the Svalbard Treaty.

BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE

Academic background

Full professor competence (2020)
PhD, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo (2013)
Cand. jur, University of Oslo (2005)

Professional experience

Professor of Law, University of South-Eastern Norway (since 2020)
Associate Professor of Law, University of South-Eastern Norway (2019-2020)
Associate Member of the International Law Association's International Committee on 'Baselines under the International Law of the Sea', Norwegian branch representative (2012-2018).
Guest Researcher, Faculty of Law, Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo (2011).
Research Assistant, Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow and Research Professor, Fridtjof Nansen Institute (since 2004).

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BOOKS

The Law of the Sea: Normative Context and Interactions with other Legal Regimes

Nele Matz-Lück, Øystein Jensen, and Elise Johansen (eds)

Routledge, 2022, 298 p.
Svalbardtraktaten 100 år - et jubileumsskrift ('The Svalbard Treaty 100 Year')

Irene Dahl and Øystein Jensen (eds)

Fagbokforlaget, 2020, 300 p. In Norwegian.

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

Svalbard and the surrounding seas - new foreign policy challenges for Norway?

Arild Moe and Øystein Jensen

In Østhagen (ed), Norway's Arctic Policy: Geopolitics, Security and Identity in the High North. Edward Elgar, 2023, pp. 77-94
From fragmentation to interaction? A law of the sea perspective on regime interaction and interdisciplinary interfaces

Nele Matz-Lück and Øystein Jensen

Chapter 1 In Nele Matz-Lück, Øystein Jensen and Elise Johansen (eds), The Law of the Sea: Normative Context and Interactions with other Legal Regimes. Routledge, 2022, 13 p.
End of the common arctic seabed: recent state practice in the establishment of continental shelf limits beyond 200 nm

Øystein Jensen

The Polar Journal, published online 07.04.2022. DOI: 10.1080/2154896X.2022.2062557
Reflections

Øystein Jensen

In Øystein Jensen (ed), The Development of the Law of the Sea Convention: The Role of International Courts and Tribunals. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020, pp. 262-267.
General Introduction

Øystein Jensen

In Øystein Jensen (ed), The Development of the Law of the Sea Convention: The Role of International Courts and Tribunals. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020, pp. 1-13.