Primary fields of research

Commercial contract law, torts law, infrastructure, railway law, private and public standards, private governance, sustainability, CSR, international labour law, human rights, the interface between private law and public regulation,  global value chains, Scandinavia as a private law example in national and transnational research. 

Current research

I am currently conducting the railway and regulations project (postdoc)

Teaching and supervision

Torts and contract law, contract law, labour law, transportation and logistics, energy supply from a torts and contract law perspective, compliance and responsibility in the public sector.

Selected publications

Gausdal, Maria Edith Lindholm. Soft Law Business as Usual? : Fundamental Labour Standards in Private and Public Commercial Contracts. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law, 2021

Gausdal, Maria Edith Lindholm. "Breaching the Interpretative Wall between Private and Public Commercial Contracts: Scandinavian Case Law on Fundamental Labour Standard Clauses in Public Contracts" European Review of Contract Law, vol. 16, no. 4, 2020, pp. 511-532. https://doi.org/10.1515/ercl-2020-0028 

Other

Member of the organising comittee for the Sustainability Hub (team supporter)

https://jura.ku.dk/sustainabilityhub/ 

Presenter for GreenSolutionsCentre

https://nyheder.ku.dk/groenne-loesninger/green-solution-centre/ 

Member of the GreenLab Network