Professor Eirik Bjorge has taught at Bristol since 2016. Before moving to Bristol he was a Junior Research Fellow at Jesus College, University of Oxford. He has held visiting academic positions at Columbia Law School, NYU School of Law, and La Sapienza University in Rome. In 2018 he was appointed an Academic Fellow of Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.

He is the author of The Evolutionary Interpretation of Treaties (OUP 2014), for which he was awarded the King of Norway’s Gold Medal in Law 2015, and Courts as Faithful Trustees: Domestic Application of the ECHR (OUP 2015). He has co-edited the volumes A Farewell to Fragmentation: Reassertion and Convergence in International Law (CUP 2015) and Landmark Cases in Public International Law (Hart 2017). He has written articles on questions of general international law in journals such as the British Yearbook of International Law, the American Journal of International Law and the International & Comparative Law Quarterly. With Sir Frank Berman KCMG KC he is a co-author of the chapters on the law of treaties in Oppenheim’s International Law (10th edn, OUP forthcoming) and Satow’s Diplomatic Practice (8th edn, OUP 2023).

Eirik advises and represents States in matters of international law and has appeared as counsel before the International Court of Justice as well as other international courts and tribunals. He is for the period 2026–2030 one of the members of the panels (Panel B) maintained by the Attorney General of England and Wales that provide advice to the United Kingdom government on questions of public international law. He has sat as an arbitrator and serves, by appointment of Norway, on the panel of arbitrators maintained by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) for the period 2025–2031.