Irina Fodchenko
Associate, Oslo Download vCardI am a dual-qualified lawyer in Norway and Russia with specialisation in petroleum and international law, experienced in both legal systems, cultures and industries.
I joined Schjødt's Oil, Energy & Shipping Department in September 2019 from a position as Legal Counsel at LUKOIL Overseas North Shelf AS, where I primarily assisted the company and its affiliated Ghana/Cameroon team in contractual, regulatory and procurement matters. Prior to that, I have been a research assistant and a PhD fellow at the Scandinavian Institute for Maritime Law, the University of Oslo and a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge, Saint Petersburg State University and the Norwegian University Center in St. Petersburg. In addition, I have worked on research projects in the field of the Russian and Norwegian law by orders of Research Council of Norway and the Fridtjof Nansen Institute.
I have taught Norwegian and Russian law to undergraduates, held quest lectures on international petroleum law in the Arctic and Law of the Sea, been engaged as a supervisor and examiner by various academic institutions, published academic works and given presentations both nationally and internationally.
I have Norwegian, English, Russian and Ukrainian as my work languages.
Practice areas
About Irina
Education
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2009
Master of Laws, University of Oslo
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2007
Specialist Degree in Jurisprudence, Saint Petersburg Law University
Publications
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2019
Russian comparative Law before and after the 1917 revolutions, In Alla Pozdnakova (ed.), Russian Revolutions of 1917: Scandinavian Perspectives. Wildy, Simmons and Hill Publishing.
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2018
Operator transgranichnogo mestorozhdeniya uglevodorodov - pravovoy analiz Dogovoroa mezhdu Rossiyskoy Federatsiey i Korolevstvom Norvegiya o razgranichenii morskikh prostranstv i sotrudnichestve v Barentsevom i Severnom Ledovitom okeane. Voprosy Rossiiskogo i Mezhdunarodnogo Prava / Problems of Russian and International Law, 8(4a).
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2018
Legal Aspects of the Russian-Norwegian Model for Cross-Border Unitisation in the Barents Sea and Arctic Ocean. Ocean Development and International Law, 49(3).
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2014
Russlands rettslige satsing på Den nordlige sjørute – ny lov om handelsskipsfart i Den nordlige sjørutes havområde. Lov og Rett, 7.
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2009
Russisk petroleumssikkerhetslovgivning. MarIus, 372.
Interests
- Art
- Family
- Nature
- Opera
- Reading
- Skiing
- Theatre
- Traveling
- Volunteer work
- Writing