Runar Hilleren Lie

Runar Hilleren Lie is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo. He is actively engaged in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of law, technology, and international relations, contributing to major projects such as COPIID, NoRDASIL, and CLEANUP.

His research interests span International Investment Law, Computational Legal Studies, International Economic Law, Energy Law, and Legal Technology. He employs data-driven and computational methodologies to analyze legal texts, arbitrator behavior, treaty development, and institutional dynamics in international dispute settlement.

The most recent publications reveal a strong trend toward empirical and computational analysis of international investment law, particularly focusing on influence networks, authorship prediction, compliance politics, and the evolving role of legal actors in arbitration. His work bridges traditional legal scholarship with cutting-edge data science techniques.

He teaches JUS5080 – Programming for Lawyers and JUS5671 – Legal Technology: Artificial Intelligence and Law, reflecting his commitment to integrating technological literacy into legal education.

• Email: r.h.lie@jus.uio.no, rhlie@jus.uio.no
• Phone: +47 22859431
• Visiting Address: Domus Juridica, 7th floor, Kristian Augusts gate 17, 0164 Oslo
• Postal Address: Postboks 6706 St. Olavs plass, 0130 Oslo

He is affiliated with the Law and Technology (JOT) research group and the Research Group on International Law. His current research projects include:

• COPIID: Compliance Politics and International Investment Disputes
• NoRDASIL: Advancing Data Science in Migration Law (NORDFORSK)
• CLEANUP: Machine Learning for the Anonymisation of Unstructured Personal Data (Research Council of Norway, 2020–2023)