Joost Pauwelyn

Spring Term 2013

Nomura Visiting Professor of International Financial Systems

Research Interests

• WTO Law
• Investor-State Arbitration
• Bilateral Investment Treaties
• Preferential Trade Agreements
• Law of Non-Descrimination
• Informal International Law
• Use of Economics before International Courts and Tribunals
• Legal Theory and International Law
• Evidence before International Tribunals

Appointments

• Co-Director of the Centre for Trade and Economic Integration (CTEI)
• Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International & Development Studies, Geneva, 2007-
• Nomura Visiting Professor of International Financial Systems, 2012

Additional Information

Visiting Professor Pauwelyn will teach the course International Trade and Investment Law in Emerging Economies in the Spring 2013 term.

Biographical Statement

Joost Pauwelyn is Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland and Co-Director of the Institute's Centre for Trade and Economic Integration (CTEI). His areas of expertise are general international law and international economic law, in particular, the law of international trade and investment. Before joining the Graduate Institute in 2007, he was a tenured professor at Duke Law School (where he taught from 2002 to 2007) and also taught at NYU, Columbia and Georgetown University law schools. He served as legal officer at the World Trade Organization (WTO) from 1996 to 2002 and practiced law at a major Brussels law firm. He received degrees from the Universities of Namur and Leuven, Belgium as well as Oxford University and holds a doctorate from the University of Neuchatel. He is General Editor of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement and Member of the International Trade Law Committee of the International Law Association (ILA). In 2005 he won the Paul Guggenheim Prize (for his book on Conflict of Norms in Public International Law), in 2006 the Duke Law School Faculty Scholarship Award (for an article in the Michigan Law Review) and in 2009 the Francis Deak Prize (for an article in the American Journal of International Law). In 2011, Professor Pauwelyn was appointed on the indicative list of WTO panelists.

Representative Publications

• Informal International Lawmaking (Joost Pauwelyn, Ramses A. Wessel & Jan Wouters eds., Oxford University Press forthcoming 2012).
  
• Guzman, Andrew & Joost Pauwelyn. International Trade Law (Aspen Publishers 2nd ed. 2012).
  (1st edition 2009)
  
• Pauwelyn, Joost. Optimal Protection of International Law: Navigating Between European Absolutism and American Voluntarism (Cambridge University Press 2008).
  
• Pauwelyn, Joost. Conflict of Norms in Public International Law - How WTO Law Relates to Other Rules of International Law (Cambridge University Press 2003).
  (paperback edition 2008, translated & published in Chinese, Law Press China, 2005)