News

The State Consent to International Jurisdiction (SCIJ) project started one year ago. Below we present a brief overview of what we have accomplished so far, and our plans for the near future.

LEGINVEST and PluriCourts, in collaboration with Monash University and the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, are organizing an international symposium on the legitimacy and increasingly important role for international investment law and arbitration in the protection of international human rights.

PluriCourts and the editorial team of Global Constitutionalism invite contributions for its upcoming workshop, 6 July 2019 at WZB Berlin Social Science Center. The deadline for submission is February 28, 2019.

Doctoral Research Fellow Tarald Laudal Berge and professor Malcolm Langford comment on the negotiations over how to reform investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) that took place under the auspices of the United Nations in Vienna last week. Almost 100 states were present to discuss the need to establish a new system for resolving disputes between multinational corporations and states.

iCourts Centre of Excellence and PluriCourts invites to a joint summer school in Copenhagen June 18-22. 

Call for papers:

The ISDS Academic Forum, together with PluriCourts Centre for Excellence (LEGINVEST) and Forum for Law & Social Science at the University of Oslo, will host a workshop on reforming international investment arbitration in Oslo 1-2 February 2019. 

Submission Deadline: 1 December 2018. 

Multilevel Separation of Authority - Autonomy and International Courts

PluriCourts invites contributions for its upcoming workshop on "The Political and Legal Theory of International Courts and Tribunals: Multilevel Separation of Authority - Autonomy and International Courts" in June 24-26, 2019, Oslo.

Deadline for submission is December 1 2018.  

Postdoctoral fellow Joanna Nicholson comments on the US National Security Adviser John Bolton's threats against the International Criminal Court. 

This semester PluriCourts welcomes five new employees - four PhD Fellows and one Postdoctoral Fellow.

PluriCourts Director Geir Ulfstein was March 15 elected as a member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division – Law Group.

PluriCourts Co-Directors Geir Ulfstein and Andreas Føllesdal published an op-ed in the Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen. Read the op-ed (in Norwegian; full text pdf).

Postdoctoral research fellow Taylor St.John is interviewed on her forthcoming book on 'The Rise of Investor-State Arbitration' by the Arbitration Station.

PluriCourts and the editorial team of Global Constitutionalism invite contributions for its upcoming workshop, 4-6 July 2018 at WZB Berlin Social Science Center. The deadline for submission is February 23, 2018.

PluriCourts invites contributions for its upcoming conference in International Criminal Law in Oslo, 30-31 August 2018.

The deadline for submission is 19 March 2018.

On 17 and 18 May 2018, the second conference in the Identity on the International Bench Series is taking place in The Hague, organized by the PluriCourts Centre of Excellence, Oslo University.

PluriCourts invites contributions for its upcoming workshop Responding to Legitimacy Challenges: Opportunities and Choices for the European Court of Human Rights, 21 September 2018 at the European Court of Human Rights. The submission deadline is 15 February 2018.

Researcher at PluriCourts, Ester Strømmen, discussed female foreign fighters on Norwegian National TV - NRK - Dagsrevyen.

PluriCourts director, Andreas Føllesdal, comments on Austria's new government and the reactions at the European level in the news platform, ABCNyheter.

Paper by Fulbright Scholar Jeffrey D. Kahn published in Law, Culture and the Humanities, vol.13(3), (2017)

Research Assistant Ester Strømmen is interviewed on foreign fighters by the Daily Review on NRK, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.

PluriCourts researchers have succeeded in attracting funding from the Research Council of Norway for two four-year research projects.

Postdoctoral fellow Joanna Nicholson comments on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court's (ICC) request to initiate an investigation into alleged crimes committed in Afghanistan in the Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen.

PluriCourts directors, Andreas Føllesdal and Geir Ulfstein,  comment on Muslim countries and the universality of human rights in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten.