Ulf Johan Stridbeck (born 5 December 1949) is a professor at the Department of Public Law in the Faculty of Law at the

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. His main areas are criminal law, criminal procedure and

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. In addition to being a lawyer he is also a sociologist. Originally from Sweden he received much of his academic training from the

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and

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investigated the situation in both the

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(which had recently legalised

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) and Sweden to better inform the debate, and concluded that neither approach would be appropriate at that point. The working group for this report was chaired by Professor Ulf Stridbeck.

References

Bibliography

* Ulf Stridbeck and Alf Petter Høgberg: ''Hvitvasking'' (Money Laundering). Universitetsforlaget 2008 () * Ulf Stridbeck and Knut Erik Sæther: ''Gjenopptakelse av straffesaker'' (Resumption of Criminal Cases). Universitetsforlaget 2004. ()

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Law Faculty: Stridbeck
Swedish scholars and academics Academic staff of the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo Norwegian sociologists 1949 births Living people {{Norway-academic-bio-stub