Events and lectures

Upcoming and past conferences, workshops and seminars

• Reforming International Investment Arbitration, workshop organized by SDS Academic Forum, LegInvest and Forum for Law & Social Science, 1-2 February. 
• LegInvest Conference, opening conference, 31 January. 
• Workshop on recent developments investment arbitration, involving Andrea Bjorklund, Joel Dahlquist Cullborg and Szilárd Gáspár-Szilágyi, PluriCourts, 20 June 2017.
• Nordic Network on Investment Law, University of Oslo, 21 March 2017 (program).
• Public meeting: Er investorene for mektige? Event at Forskningsdagene, Litteraturhuset, Oslo, 28 September 2016.
• Informal seminar: Investment Protection for Norwegian Companies Abroad, 31 August 2016.
• Adjudicating international trade and investment disputes: between interaction and isolation. Conference in Oslo, 25-26 August 2016.
• Workshop on arbitrator behavior, 23 May 2016.
• Pushing Boundaries: Potential effects of international adjudication on treaty practice in the Russian and Norwegian Context, Workshop in St Petersburg, 15 April 2016.
• Research Workshop, Paris, 22-23 February 2016.
• Investment - environment symposium 5-6 November 2015: The Present and Future Role of Investment Treaty Arbitration in Adjudicating Environmental Disputes. Papers from the symposium are due to be published in a special issue of the Journal of World Investment and Trade.
• Public meeting: Lawfare: The Tobacco Industry’s Use of International Trade and Investment Law, 28 September 2015.
• Panel discussion on Norway's New Model BIT, 16 September 2015.
• Agora at ESIL 10-12 September 2015: Managing Legitimacy: Empirical Perspectives on the Responses of International Judges and Arbitrators to Backlash and Discontent.
• Authors' workshop for book project 27-28 August 2015, More information on the book project is available here.
• Discussion on Norway's New Model BIT, 11 August 2015.
• Workshop: The Legitimacy of International Courts and Tribunals. 24-25 November 2014.
• Symposium on Legitimacy and International Courts. 18-19 September 2014.

Upcoming and past lunch lectures

• Taylor St.John: No Exit Strategy? Explaining the Institutional Persistence of Investor-State Arbitration, 14 June 2017.
• Michelle Zhang: Judicial Engagement in International Trade Adjudication, based on two articles: "Shall We Talk? Judicial communication between the CJEU and the WTO Dispute Settlement" and "When the Multilateral Meets the Regionals: Regional Trade Agreements at the WTO Dispute Settlement", 31 May 2017.
• Alec Stone-Sweet: Arbitral Lawmaking and State Power: An Empirical Analysis of Investment Arbitration, 10 May 2017.
• Daniel F. Behn: Discussion of project proposal: Responses to the “legitimacy crisis” of international investment law , 26 April 2017.
• Runar Hillern Lie: Who the arbitrators met for breakfast - a network and statistical analysis of the relationship between arbitrators and law-firms in the ISDS system, 5 April 2017.
• Szilárd Gáspár-Szilágyi: Binding committee interpretations in the EU's new free trade and investment agreements, 28 September 2016.
• Taylor St John: ICSID and the Rise of Investor – State Arbitration, 14 September 2016.
• José E. Alvarez: Is Investor-State Arbitration "Public"? 24 August 2016.
• Ole Kr. Fauchald, Daniel F. Behn and Malcolm Langford: Investment Treaty Arbitration Involving an Environmental Component. The Greening of Investment Treaty Arbitration? 14th Annual Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, Oslo, 22 June 2016.
• Ole Kr. Fauchald and Daniel F. Behn: Putting the investment pillar’s database to work: Testing hypotheses on investment treaty arbitration outcomes, 15 June 2016.
• Catherine A. Rogers: Transparency and Accountability in the Selection of Arbitrators, 10 May 2016.
• Daniel F. Behn: The legitimacy of arbitrating investment disputes in times of war: emerging practice in Crimea, Libya and Syria, 4 May 2016. 
• Jürgen Kurtz: The WTO and International Investment Law: Converging Systems, 17 March 2016.
• Yuliya Chernykh: The Gust of Wind: Revisiting the Origin of the Abs-Shawcross Draft Convention, 4 February 2016.
• Joost Pauwelyn: The Rule of Law Without the Rule of Lawyers? Why Investment Arbitrators are from Mars, Trade Panelists are from Venus, 13 January 2016.
• Alec Stone Sweet: The Institutional Evolution of Arbitration: Judicialization, Governance, Legitimacy, 26 August 2015.
• Gus Van Harten: Investment Treaties and the Regulatory Chill Question, 19 August 2015.
• Mattias Kumm: Investor - State dispute settlement in TTIP and CETA: institutionalization of unjustified privilege, 25 June 2015.
• Ola Mestad: National Contact Points for the OECD Guidelines as New International Courts? 6 May 2015.
• Shen Wei: China's BIT Law and Practice: A Shift, 5 May 2015.
• Christoffer C. Eriksen: International courts as administrative courts, 10 December 2014.
• Michelle Zhang: Judicial Dialogue in International Trade and Investment, 1 October 2014.
• Daniel Behn: The State-of-the-Art in Investment Treaty Arbitration: Continuing Issues of Legitimacy and Diversity, 2 April 2014.
• Daniel Behn: The Chevron - Ecuador case. The Complexities of International Dispute Settlement. 18 September 2013.