| 1977 |
Academic gold medal for Legal Decisions and Information Systems (with Trygve Harvold, Norwegian University Press, Oslo) |
| 1982 |
Doctor of law (dr juris), awarded by the University of Oslo, based on a thesis in Norwegian (2 vols) on legal communication processes. |
| 1983 |
Award by Norwegian Academy of Science for establishing computers and law as a field of research |
| 1990 |
Docente a titolo individuale, Centro Interdepartimental e di Ricerca in Filosofia del Diritto e Informatica Giurdica "H Kelsen" dell'Università degli Studi di Bologna |
| 1993 |
Computer Law Pioneer Award, World Computer Law Congress (San Diego, California) |
| 1993 |
Honorary Membership in the Association of Fellows and Legal Scholars of the Center for International Legal Studies (Salzburg, Austria) |
| 1993 |
Computerworld Norway annual Price of Honour - Gullmus (The Golden Mouse). |
| 1997 |
Doctor juris honoris causa, University of Stockholm |
| 1997 |
Visiting professor, King´s College, University of London |
| 1997 |
Doctor juris honoris causa, University of Copenhagen |
| 1999 |
Knight first rank, Order of St Olav (awarded by His Majesty, King Harald V) |
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| 1977 - 1980 |
Chair, The Norwegian Film Council |
| 1977 -1988 |
Member, Royal Copyright Committee |
| 1981 |
Member of the Committee to assess the research activity of Institut für Datenverarbeitung im Rechtwesen, Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung, Bonn. |
| 1981 -1982 |
Chair, Committee on Legal Data Processing, Council of Europe |
| 1983 -1985 |
Chair, Norwegian Cassette Tax Foundation |
| 1993 - |
Chair, Norwegian Council of Cultural Affairs |
| 1994 - |
Member, Legal Advisory Board, Directorate General XIII, Luxembourg |
| 1995 - 1999 |
Member, Forum for verdiskapning (Forum for increasing values in society, chaired by the Prime Minister). |
| 1996 -1998 |
President, International Federation of Computer Law Associations |
| 1996 - |
Chair, Marketing Sub-committee, Memory of the World, UNESCO |
| 1996 - 1999 |
Member, Royal Commission of the Freedom of Expression (chaired by professor Francis Seyersted) |
| 1996 - 1999 |
Member, Royal Commission for Convergence between Telecommunication and Broadcasting (chaired by Supreme Court Judge Karin Bruzelius) |
| 1996 - |
Member, Board of Governors, European Cultural Foundation (the Netherlands chaired by Her Highness, Princesse Beatrice) |
| 1998 - |
Member, Beirat des Instituts für Informations-, Telekommunikations- und Medienrecht (ITM), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universtät, Münster |
| 1999 |
Co-Chair, Conference Committee, International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (with professor Andrew IJ Jones) |
| 1999- |
Chair, Forum for Information Security |
| 1985 |
EW Turner Memorial Lecture, University of Tasmania, Hobarth |
| 1989 |
Keynote speaker Regional forum on the impact of emerging technologies on the law of intellectual property for Asia and the Pacific, organised by the World Intellectual Property Organisation in co-operation with the Korea Industrial Property Office and with the assistance of the United Nations Development Programme, Seoul. |
| 1990 |
Third Annual Charles Green Lecture in Law and Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology, Kent Law School, Chicago |
| 1992 |
Keynote speaker, 7th conference of the British and Irish Legal Education and Technology Association, Warwick |
| 1992 |
Keynote speaker, 3rd International Conference on Computers and Law, Montreal 30.9.1992 |
| 1994 |
Opening address, Bergen International Music Festival |
| 1996 |
Keynote speaker, ALLC-ACH '96 The 1996 Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities, Bergen 25.6.1996 |
| 1997 |
Keynote address, Special Interest Group: Electronic Copyright Management Systems, EVA ‘97, Florence 22.3.1997 |
| 1998 |
"Text Retrieval and Hypertext: The deep Structure", Opening and Invited Talk, DEXA '98 – Data Bases and Expert System Applications, Wien 24.8.1998 |
| 2000 |
"A View from the Inside", Keynote address, SubTech 2000: The Journey of Knowledge, Harvard Law School, Cambridge (Boston) 6.7.2000. |
| 1967 |
First published fiction book (short story collection, in collaboration with Tor Åge Bringsværd) |
| 1971 |
First dramatic production (stage, The Norwegian Theatre, Oslo) |
| 1975 |
The Damm Prize and the Ministry of Education Prize for best juvenile novel. |
| 1979 |
International Board on Books for Young People Award and the Ministry of Education Prize for best translation of juvenile fiction |
| 1979 |
The Riverton Prize for best Norwegian crime story (a three parts television serial written with Tor Åge Bringsværd) |
| 1980 |
The Ministry of Education prize for best comic (written with Tor Åge Bringsværd, art by RJ Andersson and G Vestby) |
| 1985 |
School librarians' annual prize for best child- or juvenile fiction |
| 1990 |
The NKS Educational Prize (for a dramatic ten parts series illustrating an open university type television introducing law) |
| 1997 |
Guest of Honour, Intervention, British Science Fiction Easter Convention |
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- Artificial Intelligence and Law (Boston, USA)
- Computer Law and Practise (London, UK - until 1993
- Computer/Law Journal (Los Angeles, USA)
- Computer und Recht
- EDI and Law (Eidhoven, The Netherlands)
- European Multimedia Forum (academic advisory board)(1994 -)
- European Journal of Information Systems (London, UK) (till 1993)
- Informatica e diritto (Firenze, Italy)
- Information Age (Guildford, UK) (till 1989)
- International Computer Law Adviser (Los Angeles, USA)
- Journal of Law and Information Science (Hobart, Australia)
- Kluwer Computer/Law (Deventer, Holland)
- Media Law and Practice (London, UK) (till 1986)
- Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal (New York, USA)
- Software Protection (Los Angeles, USA)
- Transnational Data Report (Amsterdam, Holland)
- Yearbook of Law, Computers and Technology (Leicester, UK)
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