Profile
 

Fuad Zarbiyev 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.

THEMATIC EXPERTISE
 

• International courts & dispute settlement
• International organisations, UN
• Foreign policies
• Boundaries & territorial disputes
• Human rights
• Humanitarian action & intervention
• Governance & multilateralism
• Multilateral diplomacy, international negotiations
• Arts & politics
• Ideas & politics
  
   

GEOGRAPHICAL EXPERTISE
 

• Russian Federation
• France
• Switzerland
  
   

Selected publications
 

Books

• LE DISCOURS INTERPRÉTATIF EN DROIT INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORAIN: UN ESSAI CRITIQUE (Bruylant, 2015)
• DEMYSTIFYING TREATY INTERPRETATION (with Andrea Bianchi) (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

• ‘The International Court of Justice and Specialised International Adjudicative Bodies: From Indifference to Authority Trading’ 65 GERMAN YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (2022), 291-317
• ‘“These Are My Principles. If You Don’t Like Them I Have Others.” On Justifications of Foreign Investment Protection under International Law’ 26 JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC LAW (2023), 525–541
• ‘“Cutting off the King’s Head”: Rethinking Authority in International Law’ 14 JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE SETTLEMENT (2023) 285–304
• ‘Consenting to Treaty Commitments: Endorsing Rules or Endorsing a Regime of Discursive Commitments?’ in Samantha Besson (ed.), CONSENTING TO INTERNATIONAL LAW (Cambridge University Press, 2023) 163-179
• ‘A Quiet Revolution in the Making? The Changing State Authority in Treaty Interpretation’ in Nico Krisch & Ezgi Yildiz (eds.), MANY PATHS OF CHANGE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (Oxford University Press, 2023) 291-308
• ‘On the Judge-Centredness of the International Legal Self’, 32 EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (2021) 1139-1166
• ‘COVID-19 and Research in International Law’ in Jean d’Aspremont & Makane Mbengue (eds.), CRISIS NARRATIVES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (Brill 2021) 182-185
• ‘The “Cash Value” of the Rules of Treaty Interpretation’, 32 LEIDEN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (2019) 33-45
• ‘Saying Credibly What the Law Is. On Marks of Authority in International Law’, 9 JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DISPUTE SETTLEMENT (2018) 291-314
• ‘From the Law of Valuation to Valuation of Law? On the Interplay of International Law and Economics in Fair-Market Valuation’ in Theresa Carpenter, Marion Jansen & Joost Pauwelyn (eds.), THE USE OF ECONOMICS IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT DISPUTES (Cambridge University Press 2017), 370-382
• ‘A Genealogy of Textualism in Treaty Interpretation’, in Andrea Bianchi, Daniel Peat, & Matthew Windsor (eds.), INTERPRETATION IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (Oxford University Press 2015) 251-267