Christian has been a leading lawyer with the Office of the Attorney General, having had professional and personnel responsibility from 2008. He had the professional responsibility for civil procedures, the laws relating to compulsory acquisition, pollution/environment, law of torts, constitutional law and human rights.

Christian has wide experience from litigating before the district courts, courts of appeal and the Supreme Court. He has litigated approximately 25 appeals before the Supreme Court (in panels, the Grand Chamber or plenary sessions) as legal counsel or as legal assistant.

He has been agent for the European Court of Human Rights and litigated before the Grand Chamber in the European Court of Human Rights in January 2016 in a case versus Norway (app.nos. 24130/11 and 29758/11), where Norway won the case.

Experience

Education

Appointments

Publications

• Ærede rett! Crash course in conduct of a case
  Nisja, Reusch, Shetelig, (2019), Universitetsforlaget
• Retten er satt [Court is in session] (guidelines/introduction in practical court proceedings)
  medforfatter, (2019)
• Co-writer of Tvisteloven – kommentarutgave [Commentaries to the Dispute Act]
  medforfatter
• Tvisteloven on Gyldendal Rettsdata (former. Karnov/Norsk lovkommentar)
  delansvarlig
• You must spend time on saving more time later! How to manage civil action included in Rettsavklaring og rettsutvikling [Clarification and development of the law]
  Festschrift to Tore Schei, ( 2016)
• How to become a good trial lawyer (barrister)
  (01‐02/2015), Jussens Venner
• Book review of Anne Robberstad: Sivilprosess [Civil procedures]
  (01/2010), Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap
• Guidelines to the Act on Natural Areas in Oslo and surrounding
  Bugge, Reusch, (2010), Oslo og Omland friluftsråd
• Review of administrative decisions by a court of law – new clarifications
  Nisja, Reusch, (04/2009), Jussens Venner
• Book review of Jens Edvin A. Skoghøy: Nytt i ny tvistelov [What is new in the new Dispute Act?]
  (03/2008), Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap
• Forliksrådet (The Conciliation Board)
  medforfatter, (2. utg. 2008)
• Book review of Eric Byland – Muntlighetsprincipen – En rättsvetenskaplig studie av processuella handläggingsformer i svensk rätt [Principle of orality – A legal study of types of hearings in Swedish law]
  (04/2007), Tidsskrift for Rettsvitenskap
• Legal points of view and practice of the State in nature conservation issues
  ( 08-09/2006), Lov og Rett
• Two Supreme Court rulings relating to the Creditors Security Act Section 5-9 – some observations included in Ånd og rett [Spirit and law]
  Festschrift til Birger Stuevold Lassen, (1997)
• Who is responsible after the accidents in the mountains
  Frisak, Reusch, Vandrer med verdenskart [Hiker with a map of the world] – Festschrift to Øystein Dahle