This academic year, Professor of International Law and Co-Director of the Institute’s Centre for Trade and Economic Integration, was on sabbatical leave but did not take a break.

In autumn 2012, Professor Pauwelyn was Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School and this spring semester, he is Nomura Visiting Professor of International Financial Systems at Harvard Law School.

During the year he has also been busy working on a book with Graduate Institute Professors Zachary Douglas and Jorge Viñuales entitled “The Foundations of International Investment Law: Bridging Theory into Practice”, which will soon be published by Oxford University Press. In addition, he has been pursuing research and has published a number of articles on informal international lawmaking, a re-classification of countries away from the bifurcation between developed and developing countries, corruption, trade and climate change, and the use of economics in international litigation. See Professor Pauwelyn's full list of publications.

Finally, Professor Pauwelyn has recently launched an online platform, trainlab.org, in cooperation with Stanford University, where he and a community of professional trade and investment law experts provide answers to legal questions and guidance free of charge in order to make legal expertise on trade and investment treaties available to everyone, especially small and medium sized companies, individuals, NGOs and government officials in developing countries. The platform will also broker paid legal services with the goal of reducing the cost of access to justice and offer supervised groups of students, including Graduate Institute students, hands-on practical experience.

Professor Joost Pauwelyn has been with the Graduate Institute since 2007. He is also Senior Advisor with King & Spalding. Professor Pauwelyn specialises in international economic law focusing on trade and investment law and their relationship to public international law. He was previously Professor of law at Duke University and has taught at the University of Neuchâtel, Columbia University, New York University, Georgetown Law Center, Stanford Law and Harvard Law Schools.