Background and experience
2025 – PhD Research Fellow, Department of Law, School of Business and Law, University of Agder
2024 – Licensed Attorney (Advokatbevilling)
2022–2024 – Associate Lawyer, Simonsen Vogt Wiig Law Firm
2020–2021 – Committee Secretary, Mineral Law Committee, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries
2019–2020 – Research Assistant, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo
2017–2019 – Lecturer, United Nations Association of Norway
2016–2017 – Legal Aid Worker, Jussbuss (student-run legal aid clinic)
2014–2020 – Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Oslo
Areas of responsibility
Ingeborg Breistein Høydal is a PhD Research Fellow at the Department of Law, School of Business and Law at the University of Agder. She holds a Master of Laws degree from the University of Oslo.
Høydal has a professional background from private legal practice, where she worked broadly within commercial law, with a particular focus on contract law, energy law, property law, real estate, and dispute resolution. She also served as committee secretary in the Mineral Law Committee, contributing to the development of the Norwegian Official Report (NOU) 2022: 8 New Mineral Act. Additionally, she was a research assistant at the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law at the University of Oslo, where she authored a 60-credit master’s thesis on recreational sea fishing.
Høydal has a particular interest in energy law and is currently working on a PhD project addressing property law issues related to the development of renewable energy projects.
Teaching
Høydal will be teaching contract law in the autumn semester of 2025.
Research
Academic interests:
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Energy Law
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Property Law
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Mineral Law
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Contract Law
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EU/EEA Law
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Environmental Law
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Real Estate Law
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Dispute Resolution
Publications:
Recreational Fishing. Free Seas – Free for All? Ingeborg Breistein Høydal (2020), MarIus 532