About
Yuliya Chernykh is Associate Professor at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and a fellow of the Roma Tre – UNIDROIT Centre for Transnational Commercial Law and International Arbitration (Italy). At Inland Norway University she leads a research group Legal Development. She is also Associate Professor II at the University of Oslo, a member of the Steering Committee of the ISDS Academic Forum and Editorial Board Member of the Journal of World Investment and Trade (Brill).
Expertise
Yuliya researches questions related to the interpretation of legal texts (particularly, contract interpretation and treaty interpretation) and the intersections between national law and international law in international adjudication. She also works in the fields of contract law, international commercial law, international investment law, sports law, comparative law, legal theory, and legal history.
Yuliya supervises master and doctoral students in the fields of international law, comparative law, contract law and alternative dispute resolution.
Background
Prior to joining HINN in 2020, Yuliya hold visiting researcher positions at PluriCourts – Centre for the Study of the Legitimate Roles of the Judiciary in the Global Order at the University of Oslo (PluriCourts), the University of Vienna, Copenhagen University (iCourts), Stockholm University, the Max Planck Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law in Luxembourg, Heidelberg University, and the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (University of Cambridge).
She has received her PhD in international investment law and arbitration from the University of Oslo, LLM in international commercial arbitration from Stockholm University and LLB (together with specialist degree) from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. She also has a postgraduate diploma in international trade law from the joint program organised by the University of Turin and the University Institute of European Studies (Italy) in cooperation with the ILO International Training Center and UNCITRAL.
Yuliya has practical experience in international adjudication. She has acted as arbitrator, expert and counsel in numerous international arbitration proceedings, and is on the panel of arbitrators of various arbitration institutes. On 2013, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK) awarded her the qualification of a Chartered Arbitrator. On 2024, the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (UK) awarded her the qualification of the CEDR-accredited mediator.
Publications and projects
Yuliya's monograph dealing with the practice and theory of contract interpretation in investment treaty arbitration Contract Interpretation in Investment Treaty Arbitration: A Theory of the Incidental Issue (Brill 2022) is available as an Open Access book.
Yulya has published with Cambridge University Press, Brill, Oxford University Press, Hart, Intersentia and Springer. Her publications also appeared at Journal of International Economic Law, Journal of International Arbitration, European Journal of International Law and some others. She has co-authored several peer-reviewed papers of the Academic Forum on Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS). In 2022, Yuliya lead the work on the concept paper of the ISDS Academic Forum 'Compliance with ISDS Awards: Empirical Perspectives and Reform Implications'. The paper is available here. She has also contributed to other two concept papers on dispute prevention, mitigation and management in ISDS and domestic law in ISDS and completed two reports for the special report on independence and impartiality of international adjudicators for the XIX General Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law.
Currently, Yuliya co-leads the Working Group I of the UiO research project 'Compliance Politics and International Investment Disputes’ (COPIID) funded by the Research Council of Norway (Associate Professor II) and is a member of the Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution in International Law of the International Law Association. She is also working on the book project (together with Dr Joshua Karton) 'Research Methods in Contract Law and Scholarship' (forthcoming with Edward Elgar Publishing).