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Call for Papers: Political Legal Theory of International Courts and Tribunals 2020

Published Oct. 8, 2019 4:11 PM

PluriCourts Annual Workshop on The Political and Legal Theory of International Courts and Tribunals 2020: Independence, accountability, and domination in International Courts (Oslo, July 20-21 2020).

New postdoctoral fellow: Tommaso Pavone

Published Sep. 11, 2019 3:55 PM

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

New guest researcher: Jay Krehbiel

Published Sep. 11, 2019 2:01 PM

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.

Published Sep. 4, 2019 2:06 PM

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.

Published Aug. 15, 2019 3:35 PM

Freya Baetens will participate in the pre-conference workshop Interest Group on International Economic Law: Challenges to the Governance of the Global Economy: Dispute Settlement in the WTO and International Investment Law held prior to the ESIL Annual Conference 2019.

Published Aug. 15, 2019 3:35 PM

On 21 June 2019, the first Expert Meeting of the State Consent to International Jurisdiction will take place in Geneva, in cooperation with the Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement (CIDS).

Nicola Strain presenting at SIEL PEPA

Published Aug. 15, 2019 3:35 PM

At the end of May, Nicola Strain presented her paper titled "The Murky Waters of Jurisdiction and Applicable Law in International Economic Disputes" at the 8th SIEL PEPA Conference at King's College, London.

Photo of Emma Brandon, Freya Baetens and Nicola Strain

State Consent to International Jurisdiction: Update from the first year

Published Aug. 15, 2019 3:34 PM

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.

New guest researcher: Julie Crutchley

Published June 13, 2019 11:54 AM

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

New guest researcher: Yifeng Chen

Published June 12, 2019 3:03 PM

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

New guest researcher: Laura Fischer

Published Apr. 24, 2019 1:29 PM

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

New guest researcher: Julian Dederke

Published Apr. 4, 2019 8:42 AM

Julian Dederke is visiting PluriCourts in April and May.

IS soldiers as victims of war crimes

Published Mar. 14, 2019 9:05 AM

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

Published Mar. 1, 2019 8:32 AM

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.

New guest researcher: Reto Walther

Published Feb. 28, 2019 12:00 PM

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

Published Jan. 17, 2019 9:56 AM

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.

Published Jan. 3, 2019 7:45 AM

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.

What about Norway?

Published Nov. 12, 2018 3:24 PM

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.

Published Oct. 31, 2018 8:25 AM

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

Reforming International Investment Arbitration Workshop 1-2 February 2019

Published Oct. 23, 2018 3:26 PM

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.

Published Oct. 10, 2018 10:22 AM

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.

Alternative facts and the ICC

Published Sep. 21, 2018 1:28 PM

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