In 2023, PluriCourts Centre of Excellence will close its doors after ten busy and rewarding years studying the legitimacy of international courts and tribunals. However, PluriCourts’ research contributions will live on and several of its initiatives will be continued at the Faculty of Law as legacy activities.
PluriCourts' Concluding Conference marked the end of its ten-years tenure, but its legacy and research will live on.
Together with the Centre of Excellence MultiLing and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA), PluriCourts organised a full-day workshop discussing the achievements, milestones and challenges for Norwegian universities in becoming environments that are more inclusive.
30 May - 2 June 2023, PluriCourts is hosting an intensive interdisciplinary PhD course on the legitimacy of international law with a focus on the current backlash against international institutions.
Together with the Supreme Court and the Court Administration by the Sami Forum, PluriCourts organized a conference on the specific legal challenges associated with the handling of Sami cases in Norwegian courts.
It was with deep sadness that we received the message that Associate Professor Daniel F. Behn passed away in his sleep on 16 July 2022 in London at the far too early age of 47.
Cecilia Bailliet’s lecture "Women Refugees and Gender Persecution" have been included in the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law. The Lecture series seeks to collect lectures of enduring value from leading international scholars on a wide array of subjects within International Law.
Professor Cecilia M. Bailliet has been chosen to Chair the Expert Advisory Group to the UN Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity Obiora Okafor.
The project will study what the EU can do to prevent the deterioration of rule of law among its members, a question that project leader Daniel Naurin argues has only become more important.
PluriCourts hosts a one week intensive interdisciplinary PhD course on the legitimacy of international law and international institutions, with a particular focus on international courts, in Oslo, Norway, June 13 to June 17 2022.
In February 2021, PluriCourts and the Norwegian Courts Administration arranged a digital conference on the Independence of the Judiciary. The judiciary was well represented in the audience and we had about 90 participants.
This week, three researchers associated with Pluricourts Centre of Excellence, University of Oslo, won the prestigious John H. Jackson prize for the best article in the Journal of International Economic Law.
As the first project of its kind in the field of law, Nertila Kuraj’s project on regulation of synthetic biology (SynBio) was recently awarded funding under the FRIPRO Mobility grant scheme. This year, only four projects in the humanistic and social science disciplines were funded on a national level. This project will commence 1 November 2018.
In PITAD, we provide a comprehensive, regularly-updated and networked overview of all-known international investment arbitration cases. The database is available here.
