Notes on Contributors
Pia Acconci
(Ph.D. in International Economic Law at the Università of Bergamo, Università of Turin and Università Commerciale L. Bocconi, Milan, 1997) has been a researcher and a professor of European Union Law and International Law for more than fifteen years at Università degli studi di Teramo, Italy. She has taught at several other universities and took part in many conferences both in Italy and abroad. She has also taken part in several Italian and international research and study groups and contributed to the coordination of a few of them as a supervisor. Her research activities relate to investment law, multinational enterprises, the protection of human rights, particularly of the right to health, from the perspectives of international and EU laws. She has written many articles and two books, and edited three books.
Piero Bernardini
is Of Counsel at Ughi e Nunziante, Rome. He is a member of the ICCA Advisory Board and was appointed by Italy to the ICSID panel of conciliators and arbitrators. He has served as party-appointed arbitrator and president of arbitral tribunals, member of ICSID annulment committees and counsel in more than 300 commercial and investment treaty cases, under the rules of ICSID, ICC, LCIA, NAI, Cairo Centre, UNCITRAL, CAM, AIA, VIAC, SCC. He was formerly President of the Italian Arbitration Association and chair of international arbitration at LUISS University, Rome. He regularly serves as speaker, moderator or chairman in national and international congresses and seminars; he has written books and articles in the field of State contracts, investment protection, commercial contracts, arbitration.
Christina Binder
holds the Chair for International Law and International Human Rights Law at the Bundeswehr University Munich. Before, she was University Professor of International Law at the Department of European, International and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna and Deputy Director of the interdisciplinary Research Centre “Human Rights.” She is member of the ILA Committees on the Implementation of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, on Human Rights in Times of Emergency and on Feminism in International Law. Christina is member of the Executive Board of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) as well as of the European Inter-University Center for Human Rights and Democratization (EIUC).
N. Jansen Calamita
is Head of Investment Law & Policy, Centre for International Law, and Research Associate Professor (CIL), Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. Professor Calamita has held posts on the law faculties of the University of Oxford and the University of Birmingham. He previously served in the Office of the Legal Adviser in the US Department of State and began his career in practice in New York. He is on the board of editors of the Yearbook of International Investment Law & Policy (OUP) and is series co-editor (with L Malintoppi) of International Litigation in Practice (Brill). He advises governments and international organizations on matters relating to international investment law and dispute resolution.
Chiara Cellerino
is lecturer in EU Law at the University of Genoa and at LUMSA University (Rome). She holds a Ph.D. in EU Law from the University of Udine (2011) and a Master in Laws (LL.M.) from Columbia University (New York, 2010). From 2006 to 2012, she worked as attorney at law in Genoa. She has also gained professional experience in International organizations such as the European Parliament (Bruxelles) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Vienna). She is part of the editing staff of the online journal “European Papers” and was student editor of the “Columbia Journal of European Law.” Her research focuses on the constitutional aspects of EU external relations and EU common commercial policy, in particular the EU investment policy. She wrote a monograph on EU external action and of several comments and articles on external relations and internal market law, state aid and European private international law.
Zeno Crespi Reghizzi
is Associate Professor of Public and Private International Law at the State University of Milan, where he graduated in 2000 and obtained a Ph.D. in 2005. His research interests cover investment law, international dispute resolution, private international law and international commercial arbitration. He has published several articles, book chapters, and two monographs in Italian entitled “Lex rei sitae and the law applicable to securities on movable assets in private international law” (Giuffrè, 2007) and “Non-party intervention in proceedings before the International Court of Justice” (Giuffrè, 2017). He is member of the ICC Italy Commission on International Arbitration and ADR.
Maria Beatrice Deli
is Professor of International Law at the University of Molise and Professor of International Arbitration at the Department of Law, Roma Tre University in Rome. She is Secretary General of the Italian Association for Arbitration (AIA) and of ICC Italy and member of the Council of the CAM. She has practiced for over fifteen years in a law firm, and has extensive experience in international commercial and investment arbitration. She sits on the editorial board of the Rivista dell’Arbitrato and Diritto del Commercio Internazionale. She wrote several articles and publications. Member of the ICCA Publications Committee and of the ICC Institute of World Business Law.
Filippo Fontanelli
is Senior Lecturer in International Economic Law at the University of Edinburgh. He previously worked in private practice and at the International Court of Justice. He serves as expert for the Council of Europe and the Scottish Parliament and is co-rapporteur of an ILA Committee on the Procedure of International Courts and Tribunals.
Andrea Gattini
is Professor of International Law at the Law School of the University of Padua. He is an associated member of the International Law Association, Institut des Hautes Études Internationales (Paris) and of several international academic institutions. Formerly, he was counsel of the Federal Republic of Germany before the International Court of Justice.
Ursula Kriebaum
is Professor for Public International Law at the University of Vienna, Department of European, International and Comparative Law. She received her Dr. jur. in 1999, and her Dr. jur. habil. in 2008 (both University Vienna). She is a Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, Alternate Member of the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE, Expert for the Human Dimension Mechanism of the OSCE appointed by Austria, Member of the Arbitration panel for the Protocol on Cultural Cooperation to the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States and the Republic of Korea. She teaches International Law, investment law and human rights law at the University of Vienna, acts as legal expert in international investment law and human rights law cases and as consultant for law firms and advisor to governments on investment law and arbitration issues.
Vivian Kube
wrote her PhD at the European University Institute, Florence, about EU investment law and human rights. She studied law in Hamburg, Germany, and Leiden, the Netherlands, and holds a LL.M. in Comparative, European and International Laws (EUI). She has taught, presented and published several articles and chapters in the fields of international economic law, EU law and human rights. She is now preparing for the second state exam in Germany and continues to work as an academic collaborator for Professor Marise Cremona, Academy of EU Law, and Professor Hans Micklitz.
Federico Lenci
(Ph.D. in International Law, University of Milan, Former Visiting Researcher at Sciences Po Law School, Paris) is a practitioner and lecturer in international dispute settlement, international business law and corporate law. He works principally as counsel and assistant to arbitrators in treaty-based investor-State arbitrations and international commercial arbitrations. Dr. Lenci is the author of a Ph.D. thesis entitled “Provisional Measures in International Investment Arbitration.” He is fluent in Italian (native), English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. He is qualified lawyer at the Milan bar.
Francesco Munari
is Professor of EU law at the University of Genoa, formerly Jean Monnet Professor of EU environmental law. PhD in international law, University of Milan. Formerly visiting scholar at Yale University, visiting professor at the University of Hamburg and at the Leghorn Academy of the Italian Navy; visiting research fellow at Max-Planck-Institut of Hamburg. He is adjunct professor at LUISS, Libera Università degli studi sociali – Guido Carli, Rome. His interests focus on EU law, maritime and transportation law, law of the sea, antitrust and regulated markets, environmental law. He is co-director of Diritto del commercio internazionale and member of the editorial boards of Diritto dell’Unione europea and of Diritto marittimo.
Josef Ostřanský
is a lecturer at the Geneva LL.M. in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS), where he teaches international commercial and investment arbitration, and carries out academic research under the auspices of the Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement (CIDS). He has delivered lectures and presentations on international investment law (e.g. UNCTAD, Geneva; University of Padua, Italy; Tehran University, Iran; ELSA Summer School, Athens) and his work has been published in various international law journals.
Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann
is emeritus professor of international law and European law and former head of the Law Department of the European University Institute (EUI) at Florence, Italy. He taught at numerous Universities in Europe, the USA, Africa, Asia, at the Hague Academy of International Law, the EUI Academy of European Law and the Xiamen Academy of International Law. He worked as legal adviser for the German Ministry of Economic Affairs (1978–1980), GATT and the WTO (1981–2017), and was a secretary, member or chairman of GATT and WTO dispute settlement panels.
August Reinisch
has been a professor of international and European law at the University of Vienna since 1998. He currently serves as Head of the Section of International Law and International Relations and as Director of the LL.M. Program in International Legal Studies. He is a Member of the International Law Commission, a membre associé of the Institut de droit international, President of the Austrian Branch of the ILA and President of the German Society of International Law. He has served as arbitrator in investment cases mostly under ICSID and UNCITRAL Rules.
Matteo Sarzo
holds a PhD in International Law from the Universities of Padova (Italy) and Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne. He is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Law of the University of Padova. Its main research topics and publications focus on the international adjudication as well as the relationship between international law and domestic legal systems.
Christoph Schreuer
is a graduate of the Universities of Vienna, Cambridge and Yale. He authored numerous articles and books in the field of international law, among which a 1500-page commentary on the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States. He has written expert opinions in many investment cases and has served as arbitrator in ICSID and UNCITRAL cases. From October 2000 to September 2009 he was Professor of International Law at the University of Vienna, Austria. Since March 2015 he is Of Counsel with the law firm zeiler.partners in Vienna. He is currently working as an independent expert and arbitrator in investment cases.
Attila Tanzi
holds the chair of international law at the University of Bologna. His other current and previous appointments include: visiting professor at Queen Mary University, professor at the University of Verona, director of studies at The Hague Academy of International Law, member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, conciliator at the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration of OSCE, chairman of the Implementation Committee of the UNECE Water Convention and legal consultant to Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He acts as counsel and arbitrator in inter-state cases and as arbitrator investment treaty cases. He has also acted as an expert on public international law in various proceedings. His main fields of interest are public international law, international investment law, international water law and international environmental law. His areas of research and practice include natural resources law, investment law, environmental law, dispute settlement, State responsibility and liability, jurisdictional immunities, law of international organizations.
Catharine Titi
is a Research Scientist (tenured) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Member of the CREDIMI, Law Faculty of the University of Burgundy. She is Co-Chair of the ESIL Interest Group on International Economic Law and Member of the ILA Committee on ‘Rule of Law and International Investment Law’. She co-directs a research project on investment law funded by the French Ministry of Justice. Catharine holds a PhD from the University of Siegen, Germany (Dr. iur., Summa cum laude) and she has previously worked at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). In 2016, Catharine received the prestigious Smit-Lowenfeld Prize of the International Arbitration Club of New York for the best article published in the field of international arbitration.
Ewa Zelazna
is a Lecturer at the University of Leicester, UK. Ms Zelazna completed BA in Law and Economics and LL.M in International Commercial Law. She has recently submitted her PhD in which she evaluated the development of the EU’s international investment policy. Ms Zelazna previously worked as a trainee at the Court of Justice of the European Union and as an intern at the Investment Treaty Forum, British Institute of International and Comparative Law. She contributed to projects for the Council of Europe and the European Commission.