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Jorge E.
Viñuales
Assistant Professor,
International Law
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Phone : +41 22 908 58 41
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Position(s) at the Institute
Assistant Professor,
International Law
Pictet Chair in International Environmental Law
Profile
PhD, Sciences Po, Paris / LLM, Harvard University
Faculty member since 2009, Professor Viñuales holds the Pictet Chair in International Environmental Law. He is also a Member of the Committee of Foreign Lawyers of the Geneva Bar as well as the Executive Director of the Latin American Society of International Law. Professor Viñuales is currently active as both an academic and a practitioner in the fields of international environmental law and international investment law and arbitration. Before joining the Institute, he was a full-time practitioner specialising first in mergers and acquisitions and then in international arbitration. He has worked on many cases under ICSID, UNCITRAL, PCA, ICC or LCIA rules, including several high profile inter-State, investor-State, and commercial disputes. He has also served as consultant or provided advice on different matters of international law to governments, companies, international organisations or major NGOs. His research currently focuses on the interface between environment and investment, and he is completing the first monograph on this topic, which will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2012. Professor Viñuales was educated in France (Sciences Po Paris), the United States (Harvard), Switzerland (The Graduate Institute, the University of Geneva, and the University of Fribourg) and Argentina (UNICEN). Professor Viñuales' is a native Spanish speaker, and he is fluent in French, English and Italian.
Areas of expertise
International Environmental Law and Natural Resources ; International Investment Law and Arbitration ; Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law ; United Nations Law ; Philosophy of Law
Selected publications
Books and monographs:
- Foreign Investment and the Environment in International Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law), forthcoming 2012.
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Introduction au droit international de l’environnement, Brussels: Bruylant, forthcoming 2012 (co-author with P.-M. Dupuy).
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El régimen jurídico internacional relativo al cambio climático: Perspectivas y prospectivas,
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: Organisation of American States (O.A.S.)/Inter-American Juridical Committee, Annual Course on International Law ("Universalism and Regionalism at the Beginning of the 21st Century"), vol. XXXVI, 2010.
Selected refereed articles and chapters in edited books:
- “Foreign Investment and the Environment in International Law: An Ambiguous Relationship”,
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: British Yearbook of International Law (Oxford), vol. 80 (2009), 2010, pp. 244-332.
- “Monitoring Compliance with Standards for the Protection of the Environment”,
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: Antonio Cassese (ed.), Towards a Realistic Utopia, Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2011.
- “Du bon dosage du droit international: Les négotiations climatiques en perspective”,
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: Annuaire français de droit international, vol. 56 (2010), forthcoming 2011 (available as CIES working paper).
- “Iced Freshwater Resources: A Legal Exploration”,
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: Yearbook of International Environmental Law (Oxford), vol. 20 (2009), 2010, pp. 188-206.
- "Access to Water in Foreign Investment Disputes",
in: Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, vol. 21/4, 2009, pp. 733-751.
- "The Contribution of the International Court of Justice to the Development of International Environmental Law",
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: Fordham International Law Journal, vol. 32/1, 2008, pp. 232-258.
- "L''amicus curiae dans l'arbitrage d'investissement",
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: ICSID Review. Foreign Investment Law Journal, vol. 22/2, 2007, pp. 380 - 432 (co-author with Florian Grisel).
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