Freya Baetens

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ABOUT FREYA BAETENS

Freya Baetens is Professor of Public International Law (Oxford University), Research Director at the Oxford Human Rights Hub (Pembroke College), GIC+ Project Director (Regent’s Park College) and winner of the 2024 Francqui Chair. She holds the Chair of EU External Economic Law at the Europa Institute (Leiden University) and is affiliated with the LEVEL project (Oslo University). As a Member of the Brussels Bar and Special Counsel at Fietta LLP, she regularly acts as counsel or expert in international and European disputes. Freya is listed on the EU Roster of Arbitrators and Trade & 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). Freya has 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). Freya is the co-editor-in-chief of the Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals journal, editor of the Elgar International Economic Law series, serves on the Editorial Board of the Belgian Review of International Law, the Journal of World Investment & Trade and the Chinese Journal of Transnational Law, and on the Academic Review Board of the Cambridge Journal of International Law and the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law.As a W.M. Tapp scholar (Gonville and Caius College) and a fellow of the European Trust and the Cambridge European Society, she was awarded a Ph.D. degree from Cambridge University. At Oxford University, she received an M.A. in Law (by Resolution) and a D.Phil. in Law (by Incorporation). Previously, she 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).She is 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, WTO and investment law, energy law and sustainable development.