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Runar Hilleren Lie

Associate Professor - Department of Law and Governance

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Publications

Strain, Nicola Claire; Lie, Runar Hilleren, Chernykh, Yuliya, Espelid, Even, John, Taylor St, Langford, Malcolm, Cuervo-Lorens, Isabella, Peat, Daniel, Sarmiento, Maria Florencia, Ripson, Coen, Usynin, Maxim, Adams, Faadhil, Berge, Tarald Gulseth, Létourneau-Tremblay, Laura, Parekh, Prevy, Gáspár-Szilágyi, Szilárd, Link, Morr, Eguia, Lara Marie Nicole, Stiansen, Øyvind & Onyema, Emilia (2024)

Compliance politics and international investment disputes: a new dataset

27(1) , s. 70- 92. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgae004 - Full text in research archive

The ability to ensure compliance with investor-state arbitral awards is often regarded as one of the strengths of the international investment regime. Yet, there have been few systematic studies of compli- ance to assess the extent to which states have actually complied with adverse investor-state compensa- tion awards. This paper presents a new dataset that enables empirical research on compliance with these decisions; it is the first publicly available dataset to focus on what happens after awards are handed down, and in this way complements other databases on international investment law. This paper explains the data collection process (and its associated challenges), discusses the design choices made in selecting inputs and variables, presents a descriptive overview of the data, and examines how variables can be used in future research. Moreover, various cases are used as illustrations of the challenges of collecting and coding data on post-award processes and we explore what missing data can tell us abou

Lie, Runar Hilleren & Langford, Malcolm (2024)

The Computational Turn in International Law

93(1) , s. 38- 67. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15718107-bja10081

Lie, Runar Hilleren (2023)

Treaty influencers: a computational analysis of the development of international investment law

26(3) , s. 500- 524. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgad029 - Full text in research archive

Lie, Runar Hilleren (2022)

The Influence of Law Firms in Investment Arbitration

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108946636.005 - Full text in research archive

Lie, Runar Hilleren (2022)

The Influencers of International Investment Law: A Computational Study of ISDS Actors' Changing Behavior

23(3) , s. 350- 375. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2022.20 - Full text in research archive

Kessedjian, Catherine; Aaken, Anne van, Lie, Runar Hilleren, Mistelis, Loukas & Reis, José Maria (2022)

Mediation in Future Investor-State Dispute Settlement

14(2) , s. 192- 212. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jnlids/idac015 - Full text in research archive

Behn, Daniel; Langford, Malcolm Stroud, Létourneau-Tremblay, Laura & Lie, Runar Hilleren (2021)

Evidence-Guided Reform: Surveying the Empirical Research on Arbitrator Bias and Diversity in Investor-State Arbitration

, s. 264- 294. - Full text in research archive

Langford, Malcolm; Behn, Daniel & Lie, Runar Hilleren (2020)

Computational stylometry: predicting the authorship of investment treaty awards

, s. 53- 76. Doi: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788977456.00008

Langford, Malcolm; Behn, Daniel Friedrich & Lie, Runar Hilleren (2017)

The Revolving Door in International Investment Arbitration

20(2) , s. 301- 332. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgx018 - Full text in research archive

It is often claimed that international investment arbitration is marked by a revolving door: individuals act sequentially and even simultaneously as arbitrator, legal counsel, expert witness, or tribunal secretary. If this claim is correct, it has implications for our understanding of which individuals possess power and influence within this community; and ethical debates over conflicts of interests and transparency concerning ‘double hatting’—when individuals simultaneously perform different roles across cases. In this article, we offer the first comprehensive empirical analysis of the individuals that make up the entire investment arbitration community. Drawing on our database of 1039 investment arbitration cases (including ICSID annulments) and the relationships between the 3910 known individuals that form this community, we offer the first use of social network analysis to describe the full investment arbitration community and address key sociological and normative questions in the literature. Our results partly contradict recent empirical scholarship as we identify a different configuration of central ‘power brokers’. Moreover, the normative concerns with double hatting are partly substantiated. A select but significant group of individuals score highly and continually on our double hatting index.

Lie, Runar Hilleren (2023)

PluriCourts Investment Treaty Arbitration Database

[Lecture]. Event

Strain, Nicola; Lie, Runar Hilleren, Chernykh, Yuliya, John, Taylor St, Espelid, Even, Langford, Malcolm, Cuervo-Lorens, Isabella, Peat, Daniel, Sarmiento, Maria Florencia, Ripson, Coen, Usynin, Maksim, Adams, Faadhil, Létourneau-Tremblay, Laura, Parekh, Prevy, Gáspár-Szilágyi, Szilárd, Link, Morr, Eguia, Lara Marie Nicole, Stiansen, Øyvind & Onyema, Emilia (2023)

Compliance Politics and International Investment Disputes: A New Dataset

[Professional Article].

Lie, Runar Hilleren & Mahler, Tobias (2022)

Et nettverk av nordiske rettskilder

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Lie, Runar Hilleren (2021)

PluriCourts Lunch Seminar : Building an integrated platform for computational analysis of legal systems.

[Lecture]. Event

Lie, Runar Hilleren (2021)

Tracing change - a large scale study of change in bilateral investment treaties

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Lie, Runar Hilleren (2019)

Does change matter? A computational study of ISDS actors’ response to change

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Langford, Malcolm; Behn, Daniel Friedrich & Lie, Runar Hilleren (2017)

The Ethics and Empirics of Double Hatting

[Professional Article]. 6(7) , s. 1- 12.

Academic Degrees
Year Academic Department Degree
2023 University of Oslo PhD in Law
2023 University of Oslo PhD in Law
2017 University of Oslo Master of Laws
Work Experience
Year Employer Job Title
2023 - 2025 University of Oslo Postdoctoral Fellow
2018 - 2023 University of Oslo PhD Candidate