Alina Papanastasiou will deliver a lecture on the topic of “Political questions’ in international Investment Arbitration”, as part of the Centre for European Law and Internationalisation (CELI) Annual Lecture Series.
This lecture will explore how investment tribunals navigate claims that are ostensibly economic disputes but often involve politically sensitive questions, including territorial status, statehood, and governmental legitimacy (among others). It will discuss the available options, interpretive techniques and procedural strategies tribunals employ to adjudicate economic rights while deciding, reframing, or deferring politically charged determinations, and consider whether a coherent set of patterns or principles can be discerned from this evolving practice.
The lecture will be held on Friday 27 February, from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm GMT, via teams.
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ABOUT ALINA PAPANASTASIOU
Alina is an associate based in the London office. She has experience in public international law and international dispute resolution across a range of sectors, including banking & finance, energy and telecommunications. She has experience advising sovereign States, State-owned entities, private parties and international organisations before international courts and arbitral tribunals, as well as in non-contentious matters under public international law.
Alina has been teaching classes on international dispute resolution and international investment law at the University of Cambridge. She is also Assistant Editor of the ICSID Reports. She previously served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge International Law Journal, and held visiting fellowships at Harvard Law School and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg.