Hadi Strømmen Lile is a professor of law at Østfold University College. He is a legal and sociology of law scholar. He did his PhD at The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, at the Law Faculty of University of Oslo. He grew up in Finnmark, in the North of Norway. His father was a Sámi, and his mother is Persian.
Before becoming a professor, he has been working as a senior advisor for Save the Children Norway and as an advisor for Galdu – Resource Centre for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, in Kautokeino. He has also worked as a journalist for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) and as a newspaper journalist for Finnmark Dagblad.
Lile has published many scientific articles and book chapters in addition to one book on “International Law on the Aims of Education” (Routledge 2021). One might divide the scientific publications in the following main topics:
- Indigenous rights and minority rights
- Sámi peoples rights
- Child rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Education law
- Sociology of law and its methodologies
- Freedom of religion
- Legal methodology and constitutional law
One can find his scientific publications here. In addition to scientific publications, he has op-eds. These can be found here.
He was the chief editor of the legal journal Kritisk juss (The Critique of law Journal) for six years (2014-2020). When he took over this journal, he had to build it up from scratch. He got funding, built an editorial team, changed the publisher, got it online and over to open access. Today it is the most read legal journal in Norway.
It is worth mentioning that he has been a member of several ethical committees. He is currently (sins 2021) the leader of the Research Ethics Committee (Redelighetsutvalget) at Sami University College/ Sami allaskuvla. He’s been a member of The National Committee for Research Ethics in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (NESH) for four years, and served for 2 years as a member of the Press Complaint Commission (PFU) in Norway.
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