Master's

dr. H.E. (Hege Elisabeth) Kjos


  • Faculty of Law
    Public International Law
  • Oudemanhuispoort  4-6
    1012 CN  Amsterdam
    Room number: E407
  • H.E.Kjos@uva.nl
    T:  0205253553
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Profile

Dr. Hege Elisabeth Kjos is Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam. She is Deputy General Editor of Arbitration International (OUP) and serves on the Board of Editors of the Hague Yearbook of International Law (Brill), on the Board of Reporters for the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA), Center for American and International Law (country reporter for Norway), and on the Advisory Board of the Brill Research Perspectives: International Investment Law and Arbitration. Dr. Kjos assists in research for arbitrators and experts in investor-state arbitrations. She was previously employed at the Legal Department of the World Bank in Washington D.C.

Hege Elisabeth Kjos' courses and research at the University of Amsterdam focus on international law and international dispute settlement in general, and international investment law and arbitration in particular. She is also Acting Director of the Amsterdam International Law Clinic.  For a description of her courses, see next tab.   

Since January 2012, Dr. Kjos carries out postdoctoral research within the project 'International Law Through the Prism of National Courts: the Impact of Judicial Dialogue,' funded under the European Collaborative Research Project of the European Science Foundation. The Amsterdam Center for International Law collaborates in this project with the Universities of Berlin (Humboldt), Oslo, Vienna, Lodz, Siena, Salamanca, and Tel Aviv.    

She is a member of  the Research Project 'Interfaces Between International and National Legal Orders' and the Research Group 'International Economic Organizations' at the Amsterdam Center for International Law. She is also a member of the European Society of International Law and its interest group 'International Courts and Tribunals' and of the International Council of Commercial Arbitration, where she served as 'Buddy' in their Young ICCA  Mentoring Program (mentor Prof. Pierre Tercier).

Dr. Kjos holds a Juris Doctor degree, a Cand. Mag. degree, and a Bachelor of Arts degree following studies in the United States, the Netherlands, France, and Norway. In 2010 she defended her doctoral dissertation which formed part of the Pionier Project on 'Interactions Between International Law and National Law,' co-funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and the University of Amsterdam.      

Hege Elisabeth Kjos is the author of the book Applicable Law in Investor-State Arbitration: The Interplay Between National and International Law, which was published by Oxford University Press in March 2013 as part of the series 'Oxford Monographs in International Law.' The book is also a freely available PDF Open Access book in the OAPEN Library, as a result of OUP’s participation in OAPEN (UK).

 

Experience 

 

Teaching

  • PhD, Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam. Title of Dissertation: The Interplay Between National and International Law in the Arbitral Settlement of Investment Disputes (promotor: Prof. P.A. Nollkaemper; defended May 26, 2010)
  • Juris Doctor, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, U.S. (2000) (cum laude) (CALI Excellence for the Future Award for seven courses) (the CALI Award is given to the highest scoring student in each law school class)   
  • Leiden Law Courses, EC/EU and Public and Private International Law; Moot Court Public International Law, Leiden University, the Netherlands (1999) (cum laude)
  • Candidata Magisterii , English, History, French,University of Bergen, Norway (1996) (cum laude)
  • Bachelor of Arts, French major, English minor, North Park University, Chicago, U.S. (1995) (summa cum laude)
  • Diplôme d'Etudes Françaises, Université de Nancy II, France (1995) (mention: bien)

2013

  • H.E. Kjos (2013). Applicable law in investor-state arbitration: the interplay between national and international law (Oxford monographs in international law). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2015

  • H.E. Kjos (in press). Domestic Courts under Scrutiny: The Rule of Law as a Standard (of Deference) in Investor-State Arbitration. In M. Kanetake & A. Nollkaemper (Eds.), The Rule of Law at the National and International Levels: Contestations and Deference (pp. 15). Oxford: Hart Publishing.

2013

  • H.E. Kjos (2013). Applicable law in investor-state arbitration: the interplay between national and international law (Oxford monographs in international law). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2010

2007

  • H.E. Kjos (2007). Does the Administrative Tribunal for the International Labour Organization offer an Adequate Level of Protection for Staff Members of International Organizations? In Human Rights & International Legal Discourse-International Conference: Accountability for Human Rights Violations by International Organizations. Brussels.

1999

  • H.E. Kjos (1999). The Agreement on the European Economic Area. Loyola Forum of International Law, VI, 49.
  • H.E. Kjos (1999). EU Court Blocks Grey Market Goods by Providing for Regional Exhaustion of Trade Mark Rights. Loyola Forum of International Law, VI, 41.

2007

  • H.E. Kjos (2007). Counterclaims by Host States in Investment Dispute Arbitration "Without Privity". In P. Kahn & T.W. Wälde (Eds.), Les aspects nouveaux du droit des investissements internationaux = New aspects of international investment law (Les livres de droit de l'Ácadémie = The law books of the Academy). Leiden: Nijhoff.

2007

  • H.E. Kjos (2007). Counterclaims by Host States in Investment Treaty Arbitration. TDM : Transnational Dispute Management, 4.

2004

  • H.E. Kjos (2004). On: ICSID. (2004, April 29), TDM : Transnational Dispute Management 2004-3, (Tokios Tokelés v.Ukraine: Decision on Jurisdiction of April 29, 2004)..

2013

  • H.E. Kjos (2013, December 6). Legal Risk Management and the Sustainable Development Debate: The Role of Domestic Law in Investor-state Arbitration. Amsterdam, Workshop on ‘Legal Risk Management in International Economic Law’ (conducted as a part of the ACIL’s cooperation with Dresden University of Technology in the Global TranSAXion Research Project).
  • H.E. Kjos (2013, February 6). Investor-State Arbitration. Waardenburg, Leergang Arbitrage, Academie voor de Rechtspraktijk.

2012

  • H.E. Kjos (2012, November 22). The Legal Status and Effect of National Court Decisions before Investor-State Arbitration Tribunals: A Rule of Law Perspective. Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam, ACIL Luncheon.
  • H.E. Kjos (2012, October 18). Abaclat and Others v. Argentina: Balancing of Interests Between Legal Orders. Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam, ACIL Luncheon Meeting.

2011

  • H.E. Kjos (2011, December 14). Investor-State Arbitration. The Hague, the Netherlands, Leergang Arbitrage, Academie voor de Rechtspraktijk.
  • H.E. Kjos (2011, February 15). Eureko B.V. v. The Slovak Republic: Award on Jurisdiction, Arbitrability and Suspension, October 26, 2010. University of Amsterdam, ACIL Luncheon.

2004

  • H.E. Kjos (Ed.). (2004) TDM : Transnational Dispute Management.

2010

  • H.E. Kjos (2010, May 26). The interplay between national and international law in investor-state arbitration. Universiteit van Amsterdam (vi, 529 pag.). Supervisor(s): prof.mr. P.A. Nollkaemper.

Media optreden

  • H.E. Kjos (De wondere wereld van de IBO's: investeringsbeschermingsovereenkomsten) (2011, Oct 26). Brievenbus-bv’s claimen voor 70 miljard [radio-uitzending]. In Juridische zaken. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: BNR Nieuwsradio.

Spreker

  • H.E. Kjos (2011, December 1). Investor protection versus state sovereignty: what are the arguments? Amsterdam (Linklaters), Conference ‘Investment Arbitration – Protection for international investors under threat?’.
  • H.E. Kjos (2012, May 11). Connexity between Claims and Counterclaims in Investor-State Arbitration: A Question of Jurisdiction and/or Admissibility? London, The Eighteenth Investment Treaty Forum (BIICL): Public Conference: 'Recent Developments in Investor-State Arbitration: Questions of Jurisdiction and Consent'.
  • H.E. Kjos (2013, May 25). Knowing the Law: A Power or a Duty? The Role of Arbitrators and Counsel in Ascertaining the Applicable Law in Investor-State Arbitration. Amsterdam, ESIL Research Forum 2013.
  • H.E. Kjos (2013, September 4). Domestic Court Decisions Before Investor-State Tribunals: Evaluating National Rule of Law by International Rule of Law Criteria. Mauritius, 3rd International Conference on International Trade and Investment.
  • H.E. Kjos (2013, October 11). The Role and Design of Investor-State Dispute Settlement in Balancing Sustainable Development and Investment Protection. Berlin, International Investment Agreements: Balancing Sustainable Development and Investment Protection.
  • H.E. Kjos (2014, September 5). International Law Through the National Prism: The Role of Domestic Courts in Shaping International Investment Law. Vienna, Conference of the European Society of International Law.
  • H.E. Kjos (2014, September 18). Key note address by Professor Zachary Douglas on The Future of Arbitration: an Intervention. Amsterdam, Dutch Arbitration Day 2014.
  • H.E. Kjos (2014, October 10). From Domestic Court Rooms to International Law: The Role of Domestic Jurisprudence in Investor-State Arbitration. Amsterdam, The Role of Domestic Courts in Shaping International Law.
  • H.E. Kjos (2014, November 16). Arbitration of Financial and Investment Disputes. Leidschendam, AIIC 8th Hague Legal Symposium: Arbitration.
  • H.E. Kjos (2014, October 23). Investor-State Dispute Settlement in Mega-Regionals: Is the CETA a Forewarning, Promise or "As good as it gets" (if at all)? Dresden, Mega-Regionals and the Future of International Trade and Investment Law.
  • H.E. Kjos (2014, June 19). Foreign Investment Law through the Lens of Subsidiarity: The Authority of Arbitration Tribunals to Apply Domestic Law. Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Workshop: Subsidiarity in Global Governance.

Tijdschriftredactie

  • W.W. Park, H.E. Kjos, R. Teitelbaum & T.W. Walsh (Eds.). (2009) Arbitration International.
  • W.W. Park, H.E. Kjos, R. Teitelbaum & T.W. Walsh (Eds.). (2010) Arbitration International.
  • N. Lavranos, R.A. Kok, H.E. Kjos, F.E.M. Stikkelbroeck & J. Vidmar (Eds.). (2010) Hague Yearbook of International Law, 23.
  • N. Lavranos, R.A. Kok, H.E. Kjos, F.E.M. Stikkelbroeck & J. Vidmar (Eds.). (2011) Hague Yearbook of International Law, 24.
  • W.W. Park, H.E. Kjos, R. Teitelbaum & T.W. Walsh (Eds.). (2012) Arbitration International.
  • N. Lavranos, R.A. Kok, H.E. Kjos, F.E.M. Stikkelbroeck & J. Vidmar (Eds.). (2012) Hague Yearbook of International Law, 25.
  • W.W. Park, H.E. Kjos, R. Teitelbaum & T.W. Walsh (Eds.). (2013) Arbitration International.
  • N. Lavranos, R.A. Kok, H.E. Kjos, F.E.M. Stikkelbroeck & J. Vidmar (Eds.). (2013) Hague Yearbook of International Law, 26.
  • W.W. Park, H.E. Kjos, R. Teitelbaum & T.W. Walsh (Eds.). (2014) Arbitration International.
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