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PluriCourts Annual Workshop on The Political and Legal Theory of International Courts and Tribunals 2020: Independence, accountability, and domination in International Courts (Oslo, June 22-23 2020).

Tommaso Pavone joined PluriCourts in the beginning of September, as a postdoctoral fellow in political science.

Jay Krehbiel is an Assistant Professor in political science at West Virginia University, and will be a Fulbright fellow at PluriCourts during the fall semester.

PluriCourts hosts a one week intensive interdisciplinary Ph.D.-course on the legitimacy of international law and international institutions, with a particular focus on international courts, in Oslo, Norway, May 11 to May 15 2020.

Julie Crutchley is a PhD Candidate at City, University of London.

Associate Professor Yifeng Chen will be a guest researcher at PluriCourts in June and July.

Laura Fischer will be a guest researcher at PluriCourts from April to June.

Julian Dederke is visiting PluriCourts in April and May.

Postdoctoral Fellow Joanna Nicholson has written an opinion piece in Klassekampen on IS soldiers as victims of war crimes.

Geir Ulfstein and Morten Ruud have published a comment on Juridika  related to the Supreme Court verdict on catching of snow crab on the continental shelf around the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.

Reto Walther is a guest researcher at PluriCourts from January to June.

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.