Taylor St John is a Researcher at the Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo (2022-2025). She is on leave from her permanent position as a Lecturer at the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews. At UiO, she co-leads the Compliance Politics of International Investment Disputes (COPIID) project with Malcolm Langford.
She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UiO/PluriCourts (2016-2018) before joining St Andrews, and before that a Fellow in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics (2015-2016), and researcher at the Global Economic Governance Programme, University of Oxford (DPhil 2015).
In addition to the publications below, she and Anthea Roberts have coauthored an EJIL: Talk! blog series on ISDS reform since 2017.
Her book, The Rise of Investor-State Arbitration: Politics, Law, and Unintended Consequences (Oxford University Press) co-won the International Political Economy Best Book Award from the International Studies Association, and most of the underlying archival documents are available for download from the Qualitative Data Repository here.