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Marte Birkeland Deichman-Sørensen

Academic Librarian - Section for Teaching
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Visiting address Moltke Moes vei 39 Georg Sverdrups hus 0851 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1085 Blindern 0317 Oslo

Areas of work

– Teaching, research and development related to legal sources in general, and EU and EEA legal sources in particular, and the intersection of law, technology and design; 

Teaching: Developing and Conducting Teaching at the Faculty of Law 

  • Teacher in legal research and use of sources, supporting law students who write their master's thesis (JUR5030 og JUR5060)
  • Teacher in searching for and retrieval of EU and EEA legal sources for law students writing their master's thesis (JUR5030 og JUR5060)
  • Lecturer and teacher in Legal Technology: Artificial Intelligence and Law (JUS5671 og JUR1671)
  • Lecturer in Programming for Lawyers/Data Science for Lawyers (JUS5080)
  • Teacher in legal research and use of sources (JUS3111)
  • Teacher in searching for and retrieval of EU and EEA legal sources (JUS2211)
  • Teacher in searching for and retrieval of sources of public international law and human rights (JUS2111)
  • Teacher in legal research and legal methodology (JUS1211)

Teaching: Developing and Conducting Additional Teaching 

  • Course instructor in legal research on EU and EEA legal sources for judges at Dommerseminaret (Eng.: the Judges seminar) 2025 on invitation from the Norwegian Court Administration
  • Course instructor in legal research on EU and EEA legal sources for legal clerks at the Supreme Court of Norway and in the two courts of appeal, Borgarting and Gulating
  • Course instructor in legal research on EU and EEA legal sources on invitation from different parts of the public administration, including Sivilombudet (Eng.: The Parliamentary Ombud)
  • Teacher in use of copyright protected material for pharmacy students writing their master's thesis (FARM5945)

Research, Dissemination, Mentoring and Development

  • Member of the steering group of Legal Innovation Lab Oslo (LILO). LILO promotes and supports student-driven innovation within the legal sector by, amongst other things, offering mentoring, project-specific courses, and open events, such as the LILO Talks event series.
  • Member of the coordination and professional teams of Centre on Experiential Legal Learning (CELL)
  • Development of resources on UiO.no, such as a legal research resource on EEA law, titled "Guide til EU- og EØS-rett", use of sources in the master's thesis for law students, etc.
  • Course instructor in user-oriented design and visualization of EEA Law at Lovkonferansen (Eng.: The Law Conference) in 2023 
  • Responsible for the teaching on EU and EEA legal sources at the Law Library 
  • Project leader for the event Oslo Legal Hackathon 2024
  • Project leader for the project Digital Courtroom
  • Dissemination of teaching experiences at teaching forums and similar meetings 
  • Maintenance and updating of the Law Library's recommendations for citations 
  • Contributor to the transition to digital teaching in response to the covid-19 lockdown, including shifting to a digital mock trial format in Maritime Law in practice: Mock Trial (MARL5120)
  • Collaborations with Lovdata and Rettsdata on access to legal sources as data in various projects
  • Collaboration with Lovdata on the AI search service, where its first version was launched mid-June 2025
  • Collaboration with the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) on EEA law 
  • Research and dissemination on technological possibilities within the judicial system, commissioned by the Norwegian Court Administration, including cooperation with the Croatian Ministry of Justice and Administration, in addition to a collaboration between the Norwegian Court Administration, the University of Bergen, Norce Research and the University of Oslo on case processing times in Norwegian courts
  • Master's thesis guidance and supervising
  • Legal design

Background

Education – in brief

  • 2013-2016: Master’s Degree in Law, The Faculty of Law, University of Oslo (UiO)
  • 2010-2012: The Master's Degree in Law Programme, The Faculty of Law, University of Bergen (UiB) 

Work Experience – in brief

  • 2017-2019: Advokatfullmektig (Eng.: Associate Attorney), Codex Advokat Oslo AS
  • 2012-2017: Lawyer (began as Office Worker, then Legal Assistant before being titled Lawyer), Advokatfirmaet Furre DA

Other

  • 2019: Attorney's Licence
Tags: Library, Law, Development, Research, Courses, Teaching, Legal technology, Legal research, Literature search

Publications

Bentsen, Henrik Litleré, Marte B. Deichman-Sørensen, Gunnar Grendstad, Malcolm Langford and Jon Kåre Skiple. «Innen rimelig tid. Sakskompleksitet og saksbehandlingstid i straffesaker i lagmannsrettene». Lov og Rett Volume 63, Issue 7 (2024) pp. 449–473 

Deichman-Sørensen, Marte B., Maria Astrup Hjort, Øystein Kvalø, Malcolm Langford, Astri Stautland and Hilde Westbye. Improving E-Justice in Croatia – Technological Possibilities and Socio-Legal Constraints. 2022.

Published May 13, 2019 8:47 AM - Last modified Jan. 5, 2026 11:04 AM