About
Julia Köhler-Olsen is Professor of Law at the Department of social work at Oslo Metropolitan University. She has a PhD in Law from the University of Oslo in 2012 and Master in Law from the same university in 2002/2003. Her PhD is written in Norwegian Language. The translated title is "Children's right to self-determination in regard to religious norms".
Köhler-Olsen's research regards: 1) The implementation of economic and social human rights in social policy, 2) children's human rights and status as rights holder in the Norwegian legal system, 3) Non-discrimination law and the principle of substantive equality, 4) Digital public services and the rule of law.
She teaches social welfare law, human rights law and public law, as well as legal method both at the bachelor and master level.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
General law Social sciences Public law
Subject areas
Research groups
Research projects
Completed research projects
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Virtual Presence: A Cultural Analysis of the Emergence of 'Telepresence Technologies' as a Solution to Loneliness
The research project will provide a cultural analysis of how loneliness is perceived and represented in relation to the emerging phenomenon of loneliness technologies
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Work Inclusion in North and South: Comparative Urban Contexts (WINS)
The WINS project focuses on how work inclusion may improve the social inclusion of migrants within comparative urban settings.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Köhler-Olsen, Julia
(2025).
Combating Vulnerabilities - the CRC's Role in Children's Social Well-being and Right to Health.
Haugli, Trude Margrethe; Martnes, Mona (Ed.).
Perspectives on Children, Rights, and Vulnerability.
Universitetsforlaget.
https://doi.org/10.18261/9788215069500-25-05
Stang, Elisabeth Gording ; Köhler-Olsen, Julia ; Hellum, Anne; Ketscher, Kirsten (2024). Fra barnerett til barns rettigheter. Festskrift til Kirsten Sandberg 70 år. ISBN: 9788205607569. 632 p. Gyldendal Akademisk.
Havre, Merete
;
Köhler-Olsen, Julia
(2024).
Taking care of you – or yourself? The human right protections in demarcation between paternalism and autonomy in Norwegian child welfare institutions.
Oslo Law Review.
Vol. 11.
http://hdl.handle.net/10852/118336
Köhler-Olsen, Julia ; Bie, Turid (2024). De juridiske rammene for barnevernets undersøkelse. Hovland, Wenche (Ed.). Barnevernets undersøkelse. p. 53-78. Universitetsforlaget.
Köhler-Olsen, Julia (2023). Barnevern over landegrensene. Stang, Elisabeth Gording; Sandberg, Kirsten (Ed.). Barnevernsrett. En fremstilling, analyse og vurdering av barnevernsloven 2021. p. 552-565. Universitetsforlaget.
Köhler-Olsen, Julia (2023). Samarbeidet mellom barnevern og NAV. Stang, Elisabeth Gording; Sandberg, Kirsten (Ed.). Barnevernsrett. En fremstilling, analyse og vurdering av barnevernsloven 2021. p. 497-512. Universitetsforlaget.
Köhler-Olsen, Julia (2023). The European Court of Human Rights and Transnational Relations in Child Welfare Cases against Norway. Ikdahl, Ingunn; Sandberg, Kirsten; Stewart, Julie; Strand, Vibeke Blaker; Wærstad, Tone Linn (Ed.). Hellums metode. Festskrift til Anne Hellum 70 år. p. 154-164. Gyldendal Akademisk.
Köhler-Olsen, Julia
(2022).
Med mål om et bedre barnevern - Lov 18. juni 2021 nr. 97 om barnevern (barnevernsloven).
21 p.
Tidsskrift for familierett, arverett og barnevernrettslige spørsmål.
Vol. 20.
https://doi.org/10.18261/fab.20.4.2
Bjørnsen, Ragnhild;
Köhler-Olsen, Julia
; Fauske, Halvor; Fadnes, Jan
(2022).
Invisible children, untouchable cases? States’ legal obligation to protect diplomat children.
Child and Family Law Quarterly.
Vol. 34.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3133842
Köhler-Olsen, Julia
(2022).
For mye av det gode – Anvendelse av forholdsmessighetsprinsippet når barnevernet skal hjelpe.
Nordisk socialrättslig tidskrift.
https://doi.org/10.53292/7a2068ae.59896a82
