Delighted that this Special Issue in JIDS is now out! Check out these great contributions from an incredible list of experts Academic Forum on ISDS on #ISDS reform. 👏👏👏 Thanks to Malcolm Langford & @AratoJulian for being wonderful co-editors. Big overview 🧵 starts here -

"We should be asking if methods of warfare such as siege & blockade are admissible at all in the 21st century. How can starving anyone into submission be countenanced as a method of war when we all agree that torture is no longer acceptable as a..." 1/ genevapolicyoutlook.ch/human-rights-a…

Har skrevet litt om dadler og slegger etter ukens kontrollsaker. Og om min kriminelle fortid.

Using a novel dataset, Nicola Strain and the @PluriCourts team examine compliance of states with international #investment #arbitration awards academic.oup.com/jiel/article/2… #openaccess

1/ Most days combine anger and incredulity. Some days are just about sadness. Today is a sad day. Israel is imploding. This is a process. Israelis and their harshest critics deny the existence of a process. Both sides view "their" violence as inherently justified. --->

Do investment treaties promote good governance? Do they encourage government officials to act reasonably and proportionately, and to follow norms of due process? After years of empirical work, our answer is: No onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… Zoe P. Williams 1/

I dag overleverer jeg på vegne av #Motoferdsellovutvalget NOU 2024: 10. overleveringen kan følges på nett. regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/mot…

🆕 Research Methods in Human Rights: 2nd Edition, edited by SMR//NCHR's Bård A. Andreassen, University of Dundee's Dr Claire Methven O'Brien & @HumanRightsDK's Hans-Otto Sano with contributions from many leading scholars Out now ➡️ e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/9781… 🆓 Read Chapter 1 ➡️ doi.org/10.4337/978180…

The third fora of #2024ESILVilnius – „Dispute Resolution in Times of Technological Change“. This forum addresses these digital dilemmas in dispute resolution. Prepare for an engaging discussion with Edouard Fromageau, Malcolm Langford, katia fach gomez and Johanas Baltrimas.

Out now Journal of International Economic Law my piece on the influence of legal scholars on the development of international investment law. Thanks to eds. Michael Waibel Kathleen Claussen Sergio Puig and anonymous reviewers for an excellent review process + all who commented on drafts! academic.oup.com/jiel/advance-a…

#ESIL2024Vilnius will have a panel on Dispute Resolution in Times of Technological Change chaired by Edouard Fromageau (University of Aberdeen) and Malcolm Langford (Oslo University), katia fach gomez (University of Zaragoza), Johanas Baltrimas (Vilnius University) presenting their works.

Happy to see our report published by the Council of Europe! Co-written with @Øystein Flø Baste & Malcolm Langford, the report examines how licenses are used to regulate the reuse of judgments published online in five countries: the UK, France, Estonia, Finland, & Norway 1/2

Excellent piece by Arash Abizadeh explaining the reasons behind PAPA’s entire editorial board resignation (JPP did the same a few months ago) and the exploitation on which (commercial) academic publishing is based. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

📍 Sudan | We call for greater access to deliver humanitarian aid as millions of people go without basics for survival. People in Sudan urgently need more help, but difficult access continue to hamper humanitarian relief efforts. Read more 👉🏽 icrc.org/en/article/sud…

Tenk hvis Regjeringen heller hadde satt av 50% av midlene som kreves for språkkravtiltaket i et fond som ga insentiver til lærebøker på norsk, ordbøker for fagterminologi, mm. Mye sterkere effekt på norsk fagspråkutvikl., og uten bieffektene på unge forskere og kunnskapsutvikl.

Norway will always support a UN Secretary General determined to defend the Charter and the principles therein, irrespective of who violates it. No country should declare the SG persona non grata for carrying out his mandate.

Are arbitral awards the end point of ISDS? In this EJIL article, @taylor__stjohn, Malcolm Langford, Yuliya Chernykh, Øyvind Stiansen, T. Gulseth Berge, and Sergio Puig show that investor-state bargaining continues in the shadow of awards. academic.oup.com/ejil/article/3…

Uttalte meg i helgen til TV2 om Trumps "Gaza-plan" (for lenke til utdypende tekst, se neste post i tråden): tv2.no/nyheter/utenri…

🌟 Exciting event alert! Join us for the next ESIL-SEDI ASIL Social Sciences Speaker Series on Feb 26! 🗣 Prof Veronika Fikfak & Niccolò Ridi - @niccoloridi.bsky.social 📌 Mapping the Human Rights Bar 🎙 Discussants: Malcolm Langford & Zuzanna Godzimirska 🕙 10AM ET | 4PM CET To register: asil.org/event/internat…

“Forslaget er urettferdig. Og etter EØS-retten er det også ulovlig.” aftenposten.no/meninger/debat…