Eivind Smith#
| Membership Number: | 1664 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LAW |
| Elected: | 1995 |
| Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.jus.uio.no/ior/english/people/aca/esmith/index.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1986 Professor of public law at the University of Oslo
- Director, Research Group on Constitutional (Norwegian and Comparative) Studies
- 2009 Vice-Chair/Chair of the Division for Humanities and Social sciences, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
Fields of Scholarship
- Domestic and comparative constitutional and administrative law
- Borderline between public and private law
- Inter alia procedural and substantive administrative law
- ”Independent” administrative bodies
- Governance and political responsibility
- Constitutional cultures
- Relationship between law and democracy
- Judicial review of legislation
- Freedom of speech
- Constitutions as political instruments
- Relationship between Parliament and the Executive
Honours and Awards
- Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and Chair of the Group for Humanities and social sciences
- Member, Academia Europaea and Member of the Law Section Committee
- Member, European Group of Public Law/Groupe Européen de Droit Public
- Member, Groupe d‘Etudes et de Recherches sur la Justice Constitutionnelle (France)
- Member, Societas Iuris Publici Europaei (SIPE)
- Associated member, International Academy of Comparative Law
