Outline
Amund Bjøranger Tørum is born in 1975 and professor and Deputy Head at the Scandinavian Institute for Maritime Law, University of Oslo. His core expertise concerns the law of obligations, comparative law, construction law, insurance law and petroleum law. He is frequently appointed as arbitrator, mediator and expert in commercial disputes, often in an international context.
Expertise
- The law of obligations and contracts
- Construction law: Offshore and onshore construction, shipbuilding, infrastructure projects, and offshore wind farms
- PPP/PFI contracts
- Joint Ventures
- Post M&A disputes
- Insurance law and reinsurance contracts
- Petroleum law
- Arbitration law
- Civil procedure
- Comparative law
Education
Cand. jur 2001
Dr. juris 2006
Chartered Arbitrator by the Danish Bar Association 2010
Admitted to the Supreme Court 2017
Chartered Arbitrator (C. Arb) by Chartered Institute of Arbitrators 2021
Positions
Head of the Standing Revision Committee for the Nordic Plan on Maritime Insurance
Member of The SCC Advisory Council since 2021
Key experience
Deputy Head Standing Revision Committee for the Nordic Plan on Maritime Insurance 2020-2023
Partner in the law firm Schjødt and head of the practice groups for energy, construction and dispute resolution 2011-2020
Editor in chief Norwegian Journal of Commercial Law 2015-2022
Partner in the law firm Kvale 2008-2011
Legal Advisor Talisman Energy 2006-2008
Participant in the Study Group on an European Civil Code (“SGEC”) (Working Group on Lease of Goods), the group that prepared the Draft Common Frame of Reference (“DCFR”) on European private law 2003-2006
Research fellow and associate professor Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, 2002-2007
Editor in the Norwegian Law Journal “Jussens Venner” 2000-2001
Arbitration
Amund has more than 20 years experience with dispute resolution, in particular arbitration. He has a broad practice as independent arbitrator. He has chaired a number of domestic and international arbitration cases, and he is frequently appointed by leading arbitral institutions like ICC, SCC and DIA.
Until being appointed professor at the Scandinavian Institute for Maritime Law in 2021, he was for more than a decade litigator and partner in a leading Nordic law firm. As counsel, he was instructed in disputes concerning oil & gas, shipping, construction, insurance, information technology, insurance and post M&A, as well as regular commercial disputes. He was lead counsel in a number of large and complex disputes, including some of the largest and most complex offshore oil & gas disputes related to the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
His practice as counsel and arbitrator includes more than 90 arbitration cases concerning Norway, the Nordics and international disputes. His international experience concerns, inter alia, US, UK, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, the Middle East and South Korea.
In 2021, he was appointed Member of The SCC Advisory Council.