Background and experience
Attorney at Advokatfirmaet Bahus AS until 31 August 2017.
Areas of responsibility
Marianne Klungland Bahus is Professor at the School of Business and Law at the University of Agder. She is also affiliated with the university's Center for E-Health.
Bahus holds a PhD in health law and medical ethics from the University of Oslo, where she also took her law degree. She is committed to health law and has worked specifically with the legal and medicine-ethical aspects of life-and-death decisions. Her doctoral dissertation was an empirical study of a selection of Norwegian physicians' decision-making when faced with a choice of giving or not giving life-prolonging treatment to severely ill and dying patients.
Bahus has published several articles in scientific journals, such as European Journal of Health Law, Resuscitation and Rætferd, Nordisk Juridisk Tidsskrift. She has also presented her own research at several international conferences.
Together with Camilla Herlofsen, Bahus leads an interdicilpinary research group in Educatoin law.
Bahus gives lectures in ethics at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo. Since 2012, she has been responsible for the website "Health Law", published by a major Norwegian lexicon company. Bahus is also a member of the south-east regional committee for medical and health research ethics and the clinical ethical committee at Sørlandet Hospital.
Bahus is a former fellow at the Center for Medical Ethics at the University of Oslo. She was a government-appointed member of the Palliation Committee, and a member of the Norwegian Bar Association’s Committee for Welfare Law. Bahus is also an experienced lawyer in her own law firm.
Teaching
Welfare law
Professional ethics
Research
Education law
Head of the research team "Education law" together with Camilla Herlofsen. See: https://utdanningsrett.uia.no/
Paper presentation at the NERA conference (Oslo) 2018: “Legal and pedagogical dilemmas in the Norwegian unified school: the perspectives of teachers and other educational professionals".
Paper presentation at the ECER conference (Bolzano) 2018: "The Child’s best interest in Secondary School – school leaders as interpreters of the law"
Paper presentation at the ECER conference (Hamburg) 2019: "The Child's Best interest in Legal-Pedagogical Dilemmas".
Health law
The balance between law and medical ethics in the application of patient rights.
Professional ethics
Ethics of Lawyers with emphasis on advocates' role morale.
Academic interests
Health law
Education law
Professional ethics
Selected publications
Bahus, Marianne Klungland og Førde, Reidun
Discussing end-of-life decisions in a Clinical Ethics Committee - An interview study of Norwegian doctors' experience
HEC Forum DOI 10.1007/s10730-015-9296-2
Bahus, Marianne Klungland; Steen, Petter Andreas; Førde, Reidun.
Law, ethics and clinical judgement in end-of-life decisions - How do Norwegian doctors think?. Resuscitation 2012 ;Volum 83.(11) s. 1369-1373.
Bahus, Marianne Klungland; Førde, Reidun.
Parents As Decision-makers - Do the Attitudes of Norwegian Doctors Conform to Law?. European Journal of Health Law 2011 ;Volum 18. s. 531-547.
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