Legal

Target audience

Legal advisers working with legal administrative matters at Nordic universities.

Focus areas

The Legal group aims to provide knowledge regarding legal matters affecting legal advisers across the Nordic countries. This is a constantly changing area, but includes subjects such as data protection, artificial intelligence, export control, academic freedom, research ethics administrative law and intellectual property rights.

The Legal group also has the objective of addressing subjects, which are less focused on the legal side, but which has an effect on the everyday jobs of the legal advisers. This includes how to structure legal services in a university, how to make rules and guidelines effective as well as collaborating with other administrative units to create solutions for the university.

The Legal group focuses on providing legal advisers with knowledge on these topics through webinars and on-site conferences. The Legal group arranges these kinds of events, both solo and in collaboration with other NUAS groups, where the topic of the event is of interest to both NUAS groups.

Activities last year

• Webinar on rights to teaching material held in May 2025
• Physical meeting at NTNU in August 2025
• Online meetings every month

Plans for 2026-27

• Online meetings everymonth
• Physical meeting in connection with NUAS Forum, potentially a physical meeting in Sweden
• Preparation for sessions at NUAS Forum
• Planning a webinar on the use of AI for contract reviews in June 2026