Professor Freya Baetens
I am Professor of Public International Law (Faculty of Law, Oxford University), Research Director at the Oxford Human Rights Hub and Senior Associate Fellow at Pembroke College. I am also affiliated with the Europa Institute (Faculty of Law, Leiden University). In 2024, I was delighted to be awarded the prestigious Francqui Chair distinction.
As a Member of the Brussels Bar, I regularly act as counsel or expert in international and European disputes. I am listed on the EU Roster of Arbitrators and Sustainable Development (TSD) experts, the Panel of Arbitrators and Conciliators of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the South China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration), the Xi’An Arbitration Commission, and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC).
I have 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).
I am co-editor-in-chief of the Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals journal, serves on the Editorial Board of the Belgian Review of International Law and the Academic Review Board of the Cambridge Journal of International Law and the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law.
My most recent books include: Identity and Diversity on the International Bench: Who is the Judge? (OUP 2020); Legitimacy of Unseen Actors in International Adjudication (CUP 2019); Sovereignty, Statehood and State Responsibility − Essays in Honour of James Crawford, co-edited with Christine Chinkin (CUP 2015).
As a W.M. Tapp scholar (Gonville and Caius College) and a fellow of the European Trust and the Cambridge European Society, I was awarded a Ph.D. degree from Cambridge University. Previously, I obtained the Cand.Jur./Lic.Jur. degree (LLB/LLM equiv.) magna cum laude at Ghent University and the LL.M. degree with honours at Columbia University in New York (BAEF and Fulbright Fellow).
I am 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, trade and investment law, energy law and sustainable development.
Professor Freya Baetens
I am Professor of Public International Law (Faculty of Law, Oxford University), Research Director at the Oxford Human Rights Hub and Senior Associate Fellow at Pembroke College. I am also affiliated with the Europa Institute (Faculty of Law, Leiden University). In 2024, I was delighted to be awarded the prestigious Francqui Chair distinction.
As a Member of the Brussels Bar, I regularly act as counsel or expert in international and European disputes. I am listed on the EU Roster of Arbitrators and Sustainable Development (TSD) experts, the Panel of Arbitrators and Conciliators of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the South China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration), the Xi’An Arbitration Commission, and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC).
I have 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).
I am co-editor-in-chief of the Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals journal, serves on the Editorial Board of the Belgian Review of International Law and the Academic Review Board of the Cambridge Journal of International Law and the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law.
My most recent books include: Identity and Diversity on the International Bench: Who is the Judge? (OUP 2020); Legitimacy of Unseen Actors in International Adjudication (CUP 2019); Sovereignty, Statehood and State Responsibility − Essays in Honour of James Crawford, co-edited with Christine Chinkin (CUP 2015).
As a W.M. Tapp scholar (Gonville and Caius College) and a fellow of the European Trust and the Cambridge European Society, I was awarded a Ph.D. degree from Cambridge University. Previously, I obtained the Cand.Jur./Lic.Jur. degree (LLB/LLM equiv.) magna cum laude at Ghent University and the LL.M. degree with honours at Columbia University in New York (BAEF and Fulbright Fellow).
I am 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, trade and investment law, energy law and sustainable development.