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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.

Doctoral research fellow Carola Lingaas is interviewed on the role of international tribunals in relation to the convictions against Mladić by the news platform Rett24 (in Norwegian).

Fulbright research scholar Jeffrey Kahn will give a keynote speech at tenth International Conference on Development of Russian Law - Rule of Law Revisited: Applying Law in Russia and Beyond in Helsinki on November 20.

Prof. Ole Kristian Fauchald was interviewed on the climate lawsuit by the Daily Review on NRK, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.

The Research Council of Norway endorsed the report from the mid term Evaluation Committee.

On 2 November 2017, PluriCourts received a positive assessment by the Research Council of Norway and will continue for its second term. PluriCourts launches a revised research plan to address increased criticism against several international courts.

Ph.D Candidate Rosa Manzo presents the outcomes of  the Frontiers of International Environmental Law Colloquium in Klima, CICERO magazine on climate research.

PhD candidate Rosa Manzo discusses whether States have obligations under the Paris Agreement in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten.

Fulbright scholar Jeffrey Kahn and Associate Professor Geir Flikke hold a PhD seminar focusing on the conditions for Russian human rights activists and the relationship of Russia to the European Courts.

PhD candidate Jørgen S. Skjold and PluriCourts affiliated researcher Malcolm Langford wrote an op-ed in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten. They clarify what public international law says about the right to self-determination and unilateral declarations of independence.

Research assistant, Ester Strømmen, discussed her research on female foreign fighters on Radio Nova, Oslo University's student radio station.

Ester Strømmen, Inger Skjelsbæk and Åsne Seierstad discuss the role of women in wars and armed conflicts in an interview for Kjønnsavdelingen.

Kjersti Lohne, Postdoctoral Fellow, shares her view on the detention of 9/11 suspects at Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

PluriCourts directors, Geir Ulfstein and Andreas Føllesdal, discuss challenges to human rights protection in the Norwegian newspaper Klassekampen.

New research from PluriCourts reveals a tight network of actors shifting between the roles of lawyer and arbitrator in investment treaty arbitration. 

Six PluriCourts researchers will present papers at the Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law (ESIL), to be held on Naples on 6-9 September 2017.