Other professional activity
Appointments as Arbitrator, Judge
2007-2015 Judge, Administrative Tribunal, European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development
2002 to date Frequently appointed as sole arbitrator,
co-arbitrator or chairman of the arbitral tribunal (Stockholm Chamber of
Commerce, Central Chamber of Commerce of Finland, International Chamber of Commerce, ad hoc) in disputes relating
to:
Engineering agreements
Supply agreements
Agency agreements
Settlement agreements
Consultancy agreements
Licence agreements
Tie-in contracts in off-shore hydrocarbon production
Investment protection (governed by the Bilateral Investment
Treaty between the
Committees
2010 to date Country Delegate (Norway), Working Group
II (Arbitration), United Nations Commission
on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), transparency in treaty based arbitration
2007-2010 Country Delegate (Norway), Working Group
II (Arbitration), United Nations Commission
on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), revision of the 1976 UNCITRAL
Arbitration Rules
2007 to
date Country Delegate (Norway), International
Chamber of Commerce Commission on Arbitration Task Force “National rules of
procedure for recognition and enforcement of foreign awards pursuant to the New
York Convention of 1958”
2003 to
date Member
of the Commission on Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce,
Paris
2001 to
date Member
of the Norwegian National Committee, International Chamber of Commerce
2001 to
2003 Vice-Chairman,
Italian Norwegian Chamber of Commerce (Member of the Board of Directors from
2001 to 2002)
2001 to 2003 Member of the Corporate Law
Legal Committee, Norwegian Bar Association
1995
Member of the Legal Committee and of the
Tax/Accounting Committee of the Petroleum Advisory Forum,
1989 Participant to the EUROPEAN ROUNDTABLE OF
INDUSTRIALISTS’
Exchange
Programme EUROJOB: visiting attorney in Norsk Hydro a.s,
1988 Member of the Education Working Group's YOUTH PROGRAMME, EUROPEAN ROUNDTABLE OF INDUSTRIALISTS.
2011 to date Member of the Board of Directors of Det Norske
Universitetssenter i Sankt Petersburg (The Norwegian University centre in Saint
Petersburg)
2010 to date Member of the Board of Directors of the Arbitration Institute,
Oslo Chamber of Commerce
2006-2010 Member
of the Board of Directors of OAO DnB Nor Monchebank, Murmansk, Russia (bank, subsidiary
of DnBNor ASA)
2004 to date Member of the Board of Directors of Protector Forsikring ASA (insurance company)
Direction of Research
2009-2014 Founder,
member of the Steering Committee and manager of the research project “Arbitration
and Party Autonomy”: http://www.jus.uio.no/ifp/english/research/projects/choice-of-law/
2008-2011 Deputy Director, Department of Private Law, Law Faculty,
2004-2009 Founder, member of the Board and manager of the
inter-departmental research project and international network “Anglo-American
Contract Models and Norwegian or Other Civil Law Governing Law”, financed by
the Research Council of Norway: http://www.jus.uio.no/ifp/forskning/prosjekter/anglo-project/
July
2002 Director of
Studies,
Evaluation Boards
2012
Member
of the Evaluation Board for the appointment as lecturer in arbitration law,
University of Stockholm, Sweden
2011
Member
of the Evaluation Board for the appointment as lecturer in private
international law, University of Stockholm, Sweden
2011 Member
of the Evaluation Board for a doctoral thesis on the development of Russian
international law, University of Turin, Italy
2010 Member
of the Evaluation Board for the appointment as lecturer, Law Faculty,
University of Örebro, Sweden
2010 Chairman
of the Evaluation Board for a doctoral thesis on contract law and company law
aspects of dynamic networks, University of Oslo
2009 Internal
Examiner for a PhD thesis on the concurrent jurisdiction between treaties and
domestic tribunals, Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy,
Dundee, Scotland
2009 Member
of the Evaluation Board for the appointment as “Adjunct Professor”, Law
Department, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
2007 Chairman
of the Evaluation Board for a doctoral thesis on state contracts and
investment
arbitration, University of Oslo
2007 External
Referee for a “Habilitationskommission” for professor qualification
(venia
docendi) in International Law, University of Vienna, Austria
2007 External
Referee for Academy Research fellow Posts and Senior Scientist’s Grant
applications, Research Council for Culture and Society at the Academy
of
Finland
2006 Chairman
of the Evaluation Board for a Professorship in International Commercial
and
Investment Law, University of Oslo
2006
Member
of the Evaluation Board for a PhD thesis on the private international
law
principle of domicile,
2006
Internal Examiner for a PhD thesis on the principle of force
majeure in investment disputes, Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law
and Policy,
2002-2006 Referee
for project applications for the Environment and Development Division –
Cooperation programme with Russia, Research Council of Norway
2005
Internal Examiner for a PhD thesis on
renegotiation clauses in international petroleum contracts, Centre for Energy,
Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy,
2001 Chairman
of the Evaluation Board for a thesis for the “lisensiat” degree at the
Oslo
University on international jurisdiction in electronic contracts
Editorial Boards
2011-2015 General Editor, Lov og Rett
2007- 2011 Member
of the Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of World Energy Law and Business
2006-2008 Member
of the Editorial Board, Review of Central and East European Law
Research Groups, Associations
2010 to date Associate member, International Academy of Comparative Law
2009-2011 Member of the International Law Association Study Group on
Role of Soft Law Instruments in International Investment Law
2008 Member
of the Steering Committee for the establishment of an International Law
Association Study Group on Role of Soft Law Instruments in International
Investment Law
2007 to
date Co-founder and chairman of
the Norwegian Association for Comparative Law
2006-2008 Member of the International Law Association Committee on
International Law of Foreign Investment
2004 to
date Member of the
European Research Group on Existing EC Private Law
2002 to date
Member of the Nordic Group for
Private International Law
1985 to
date Member of the
Italian Association for Comparative Law