Congratulations to Professor Fuad Zarbiyev, who has received an SNSF grant for his new research project, "The Crisis of Consent: Consensualism in an Era of International Regulatory Agreements". Hosted by the Global Governance Centre and the International Law Department, the project explores how state consent functions in modern international law, revealing its limits in shaping treaty commitments and offering a framework to understand their practical development and impact on global governance.
More About the project
The project "The Crisis of Consent: Consensualism in an Era of International Regulatory Agreements" examines the role of state consent in modern international law, highlighting how treaty commitments often evolve beyond the intentions of the states that negotiate them. It investigates the limits of traditional consensualism and proposes a new framework to understand the practical development of treaties, the patterns of discursive expansion, and the implications for global governance. This research provides scholars, policymakers, and practitioners with tools to better understand, design, and communicate international legal commitments in a rapidly evolving world.
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About Fuad Zarbiyev
Fuad Zarbiyev is Professor on International Law and is the Principal Investigator of the project. He holds a Bachelor of Laws from Baku State University, a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School and a PhD in International Law from the Geneva Graduate Institute. Previously, he was a Global Research Fellow at New York University School of Law and worked as an associate attorney and counsel with the New York office of the international law firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP. He is the recipient of the Diploma of the Hague Academy of International Law, the James Crawford Prize in International Dispute Settlement and the Prize for Best Article in International Dispute Resolution of the Dispute Resolution Interest Group of the American Society of International Law. He has served as Director of Studies at The Hague Academy of International Law and has held visiting appointments at the Sciences Po Law School in Paris and at Paris-Panthéon-Assas University.