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About Geir Lippestad

Geir Lippestad is a high-profile Norwegian lawyer with his own law-firm, a former Vice-Mayor of Oslo ( 2015 - 2017), and social activist, best known for his involvement in several famous legal cases including that of Anders Breivik.

Articles by Geir Lippestad

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Rosemary Bechler is a mainsite editor at openDemocracy

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

Technical, geopolitical, or transformative: what future for the Eastern Partnership?
Laure Delcour
'Practical wisdom' and EU integration
Can Büyükbay
Serbia’s choice: EU membership or eastern promises?
Srdja Pavlovic

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

TTIP: we were right all along
Thomas Fazi
TTIP and the right to protect personal data
Keno Franke
What we talk about when we talk about TTIP
Sam Lowe
The great rebranding: how the EU tried to fool us into thinking it has removed ISDS from TTIP
Virginia López Calvo

Breivik lawyer: how to avoid the Trump trap

Geir Lippestad and Rosemary Bechler 5 March 2018

Geir Lippestad defended Norway's biggest mass murderer. Now the former Vice-Mayor of Oslo talks about what's he's learned about how to combat hatred and create a 'win-win' for intercultural cities. Interview.