Freya Baetens (Cand. Jur./ Lic.Jur. (Ghent); LL.M. (Columbia); Ph.D. (Cambridge)) is Professor of Public International Law (Faculty of Law, Oxford University), Research Director at the Oxford Human Rights Hub (Pembroke College) and Project Director for the LGBT+ Summer School Programme (Regent’s Park College).
At Regent’s Park College, Prof. Baetens heads the two-part ‘GIC+ Summer School’ (funded by the FCDO) for non-affirming senior religious leaders that provides a space to discuss with affirming religious colleagues, learn from leading academics and be challenged on matters relating to sexuality and gender identity. She also teaches public international law and EU law.
Prof. Baetens holds the Chair of EU External Economic Law at the Europa Institute (Faculty of Law, Leiden University), is affiliated with the Department of Private Law (Faculty of Law, Oslo University) and was awarded the 2024 Francqui Chair at Ghent University. She has been a visiting professor at the KU Leuven (Belgium), Max Planck Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law (Luxembourg), Université Paris Nanterre (France), National University Singapore (Singapore), Sydney Law School (Australia), Xi’An Jiaotong Law School (China), FHR Lim A Po Institute (Suriname) and the World Trade Institute, Bern University (Switzerland).
As a Member of the Brussels Bar, she regularly acts as counsel or expert before domestic, regional and international courts and tribunals. She is listed on the EU Roster of Arbitrators and Trade & Sustainable Development (TSD) experts and the Panel of Arbitrators and Conciliators of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), among other. She is a general public international lawyer, with a particular interest in the law of treaties, responsibility of states and international organisations, privileges and immunities, law of the sea, human rights, WTO and investment law, energy law and sustainable development.
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Selected Publications
Books
- Cambridge Textbook of International Economic Law: An Integrated Approach, co-authored with M. Waibel and D. Desierto (CUP 2024) (accepted for publication)
- The EU and the WTO: Ever the Twain Shall Meet – Liber Amicorum Marco Bronckers, co-edited with S. Van den Bogaert (KLI 2023)
- ‘Beyond State Consent to International Jurisdiction – From Courts to Law’, 22 LPICT Symposium 3 (2023) 459-520
- Identity and Diversity on the International Bench: Who is the Judge? (OUP 2020)
- Legitimacy of Unseen Actors in International Adjudication (CUP 2019)
- Modernisation of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), Special Issue Co-Editor, 1 Transnational Dispute Management (2019) with M. Paparinskis, I. Mitrev-Penusliski and J. Gaffney
- International Economic Law – Contemporary Issues, co-edited with G. Adinolfi, J. Caiado, A. Lupone and A. G. Micara (Giappichelli / Springer 2017)
- The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: an EU Perspective on Global Economic Governance, Special Issue Co-Editor 43 Legal Issues of Economic Integration 4 (2016) with J. Rijpma and G. Gruni
- Sovereignty, Statehood and State Responsibility −Essays in Honour of James Crawford, co-edited with C. Chinkin (CUP 2015)
- Frontiers of International Economic Law – Legal Tools to Confront Interdisciplinary Challenges, co-edited with J. Caiado (Brill 2014)
- Investment Law Within International Law: Integrationist Perspectives (CUP 2013)
- New Directions in International Economic Law − In Memoriam Thomas Wälde, co-edited with T. Weiler (Brill 2011
Articles and Research Papers
- ‘World Trade Organization Rules before Investment Tribunals: Facilitating Cross-Fertilisation while Appreciating Particularities’, 24 JWIT 1 (2023) 1-36
- ‘Transparency across International Courts and Tribunals: Enhancing Legitimacy or Disrupting the Adjudicative Process?’, 91 NJIL (2022) 595-636
- ‘The Transitional Mechanism Regulating Extra-EU Bilateral Investment Treaties Has Turned Ten: High Time to Re-Assess’, 47 E.L.Rev. 4 (2022) 437-462
- ‘Protecting Foreign Investment and Public Health Through Arbitral Balancing and Treaty Design’, 71 ICLQ 1 (2022) 139-182
- ‘The ILC Articles on State Responsibility: More than a “Plank in a Shipwreck”?’, co-authored with J. Crawford, 36 ICSID Review - Special Issue on the 20th anniversary of ARSIWA (2021) 1-7
- ‘Introductory note to Jadhav case (India v. Pakistan) (ICJ)’ 59 ILM 2 (2020) 187-190
- ‘No Deal is Better Than a Bad Deal? The Fallacy of the WTO Fall-Back Option as a post-Brexit Safety Net’, 55 Common Market Law Review 2/1 (2018) 133 – 174
- . ‘L'importance des dispositions transitoires pour les traités bilatéraux d'investissement conclus entre les États membres de l'UE et les États tiers’, Cahiers de droit européen 3 (2017) 611-647
- ‘Judicial Review of International Adjudicatory Decisions: A Cross-Regime Comparison of Annulment and Appellate Mechanisms’, 8 Journal of International Dispute Settlement 3 (2017) 432- 459
- ‘The European Union’s Proposed Investment Court System: Addressing Criticisms of Investor-State Arbitration while Raising New Challenges’, 43 Legal Issues of Economic Integration 4 (2016) 367- 384
- ‘The Most Toxic Acronyms in Europe: the EU Trade and Investment Treaties and the Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanism’ (original title: De Giftigste Acroniemen in Europa: EU Handels- en Investeringsverdragen en het Investeerder-Staat Geschillenbeslechtingsmechanisme’) 64 SEW 6 (2016) 251-261
- ‘The Rule of Law or the Perception of the Beholder? Why Investment Arbitrators are under Fire and Trade Adjudicators are not: A Response to Joost Pauwelyn’, 109 AJIL Unbound (2016) 302
- ‘Clarifying the meaning of ‘investment’ and the temporal scope of treaties: Republiek Ecuador v Chevron Corporation (USA) en Texaco Petroleum Company, Hoge Raad (Dutch Supreme Court), Judgment (26 September 2014)’, 17 JWIT (2016) 463-470
- ‘Analysing the practice of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia in dealing with annulment requests on appeal’, Casenotes and Comments, co-authored with A. Scarlat, N. S, and A. Dumbryte, XLIII ALC International Criminal Tribunals (2015) 200-208
- ‘Investment chapters including dispute settlement mechanisms in bilateral trade agreements’, 142 Royal Dutch Society of International Law Journal (2015) 35-74
- ‘Transatlantic Treaty Investment Protection – a Response to Poulsen, Bonnitcha and Yackee’, Paper No. 4 in the CEPS-CTR project ‘TTIP in the Balance’ and CES Special Report No. 103 (March 2015) 1-14
- ‘Multi-party investment arbitration: determining breach and compensation under the new extra-EU investment agreements’, co-authored with G. Kreijen and A. Varga, 47 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 5 (2014) 1203-1260
- ‘The Dissemination of International Scholarship: The Future of Books and Book Reviews’, coauthored with V. Prislan, 27 Leiden Journal of International Law 3 (2014) 1-11
- ‘Being an International Law Lecturer in the 21st century: Where tradition meets innovation’, coauthored with W.L. Cheah, 2 CJICL 4 (2013) 974-1011
- ‘Reconsidering financial remedies in WTO dispute settlement proceedings’, co-authored with M. Bronckers, 16 JIEL 2 (2013) 1-31
- ‘Procedural Issues Relating to Shared Responsibility in Arbitral Proceedings’, 4 Journal of International Dispute Settlement 2 (2013) 319-341
- ‘Steuerung der Außenwirtschaftsförderung in Deutschland, USA und den Niederlanden im Rechtsvergleich’, co-authored with J. von Bernstorff and M. Jacob, 14 INEF Forschungsreihe Menschenrechte, Unternehmensverantwortung und Nachhaltige Entwicklung (2013) Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden, Universität Duisburg-Essen, 1-59
- ‘The Abyei Arbitration: A Model Procedure for Intra-State Dispute Settlement in Resource-Rich Conflict Areas?’, co-authored with R. Yotova, 3 Goettingen Journal of International Law 1 (2011) 417-446
- ‘Foreign Investment Law and Climate Change: Legal Conflicts Arising from Implementing the Kyoto Protocol Through Private Investment’, Sustainable Development Law on Climate Change (2010) 1-33
- ‘Muddling the waters of treaty interpretation? Relevant rules of international law in the MOX Plant OSPAR Arbitration and EC Biotech case’, 77 NJIL 3 (2008) 197–216
- ‘Safe until proven harmful? Risk regulation in situations of scientific uncertainty: the GMO case, Casenote and comment’, 66 CLJ 2 (2007) 276-278