Midtveievalueringen gjennomføres i henhold til Retningslinjer for midtveisevaluering for doktorgradsprogrammet ved Det juridiske fakultet, UiO. Evalueringen består av en åpen seminardel (ca. 90 min.) og et lukket møte (ca. 30 min.). På det lukkede møte deltar instituttleder (eller dennes representant), veileder samt kommentator/ene.
- Kommentator er professor Joost Pauwelyn fra Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies i Geneve.
- Midtveisevalueringen ledes av instituttleder Inger Johanne Sand, Institutt for offentlig rett, UiO.
- Hovedveileder er professor Malcolm Langford. Medveiledere er professor Carl Henrik Knutsen fra Institutt for statsvitenskap, UiO, og førsteamanuensis 2 Daniel Behn ved PluriCourts og Institutt for offentlig rett, UiO.
Om Runar Hilleren Lie
Runar Lie is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the PluriCourts Centre of Excellence, here he is working on the research project LEGINVEST. Using empirical and computational methods he studies the behavior of the actors in the international investment arbitration system.
He holds a law degree from the University of Oslo, he has a background as a lawyer, an entrepreneur and developer, and is currently deeply involved in the development of the PluriCourts Investment Treaty and Arbitration Database (PITAD).
Om avhandlingsprosjektet "Tracing Influence. A computational study of change in the international investment system"
Investment law or investment laws? Singular or plural? A simple question, yet notoriously hard to answer. International investment law is a system of over 3400 treaties, a few thousand people and just over a thousand cases. Its design is fundamentally ad-hoc without any central authority, court, or treaty. Despite this it is taught as one subject in universities, conferences and debates are singular in nature, and a small group of fifty or so individuals and law firms are usually the ones deciding any dispute. A duality of integration and ad-hoc prompts a puzzle. This puzzle has grown more and more complex over time. The purpose of this PhD is ultimately tease out the reality of the system and what paths were taken for it to end up in its current form. In other words, how did a system so dispersed end up being addressed in the singular?
How, however, gives us only part of the puzzle. To understand the development of international investment law, I argue that we further have to look at who is developing the system. International investment law has a range of actors, from developing states to superpowers, from private investors to global mega-corparations and from the individual arbitrator to leading global law firms. All of these actors have some mechanism of influence on international investment law, and in this study I will attempt to empirically establish how this influence ebbs and flows through time.
Following an in-depth introduction to the dataset underpinning the entire study in the PITAD article, I, through three studies, by applying computational techniques, draw an empirical map of the systems development through its history. By analysing how the actor’s behaviour change over time, how the treaties morph and form, and finally by seeing how the two factors interact over time, a structured temporal map of the system emerges. While the map will let us see the forest for the trees, it is created by staring systematically at each individual tree.
The project is a part of the research project Responses to the 'legitimacy crisis' of international investment law (LEGINVEST) in which the primary aim is to determine the relative importance of investment treaty arbitration (ITA) for the design of international investment agreements (IIAs) and the relative importance of (re)design of IIAs for ITA.