Juridiske uddannelser går sammen om bæredygtighed

Denmark's legal research and education institutions are now launching the five-year initiative JURiB, which will develop new knowledge and capacity within sustainability through research and teaching in law. This is stated by VELUX FONDEN in a press release.  

JURiB stands for 'Legal Competencies within Sustainability' and brings together researchers and educators from the University of Copenhagen, University of Southern Denmark, Aalborg University, Aarhus University, Roskilde University and Copenhagen Business School. The aim is to contribute to the green transition through a stronger legal basis for sustainable decisions in both the private and public sectors.  

– The legal research and education environments in Denmark now have a unique opportunity to jointly develop excellent research within sustainability and at the same time ensure that our education programs provide future legal graduates with strong and necessary sustainability competencies. On behalf of the initiative, I would like to thank VELUX FONDEN for making this possible, says Dean Jacob Graff Nielsen, CEO of the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen. 

VELUX FONDEN supports the initiative with 25 million DKK as part of the foundation's ambition to promote an informed and inclusive sustainable democracy.  

– VELUX FONDEN supports JURiB and capacity building within law, because strong legal competencies are also crucial for the sustainable development of a democratic society. The project contributes in two key ways to society's challenges through the development of new knowledge and capacity building, and thus contributes to sustainability in the green transition, says Lykke Kann Ogstrup Lunde, who is the lead person at VELUX FONDEN.  

The initiative starts with three research projects, each of which examines sustainability from a corporate perspective, a public law perspective and an international perspective. The focus is, among other things, on corporate contractual liability, public administration in a sustainability context and trade barriers in international trade.  

These projects will contribute to integrating sustainability into legal education at both undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate levels, while also generating new research-based knowledge.  

– Development and capacity building of legal competencies within sustainability are of crucial importance for how we now and in the future include sustainability considerations. This applies to both the private, public and international sectors. I am therefore very much looking forward to – in close collaboration with the other legal research and education environments in Denmark – contributing to this, says project coordinator, Professor Vibe Ulfbeck, who is CEO of the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.  

The director of VELUX FONDEN also highlights the project's importance for legal education and democratic development.

– VELUX FONDEN looks forward to following JURiB, which in an ambitious collaboration between six legal institutions develops the professional basis for education through research and new knowledge, which is a contribution to democratic sustainability, says Ane Hendriksen, director of VELUX FONDEN.  

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