Nationality
Latvia
Year of election
2025

Function(s)

  • Professor of Public International Law at University College London
  • Member of the International Law Commission, Special Rapporteur on compensation for the damage caused by internationally wrongful acts
  • Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration

Area(s) of Expertise

  • Public International Law
  • International Investment Law
  • International Water Law
  • International Human Rights Law

Selected publications

  • ‘The Development of International Law: The Case for Revisiting Compensation’ (2025) 78 Current Legal Problems
  • ‘The Vocabulary and Disputes of Public International Law: A Reflection on Tensions’ (2024) 13 Cambridge International Law Journal 193
  • ‘A Case against Crippling Compensation in International Law of State Responsibility’ (2020) 83 Modern Law Review 1246
  • ‘Investment Law before Arbitration’ (2020) 23 Journal of International Economic Law 929 (co-authored)
  • ‘Revisiting the Indispensable Third Party Principle’ (2020) 103 Rivista di Diritto Internazionale 49
  • ‘The Once and Future Law of State Responsibility’ (2020) 114 American Journal of International Law 618
  • ‘Circumstances Precluding Wrongfulness in International Investment Law’ (2016) 31 ICSID Review – Foreign Investment Law Journal 484
  • International Minimum Standard and Fair and Equitable Treatment (Oxford University Press 2013)
  • ‘Investment Treaty Arbitration and the (New) Law of State Responsibility’ (2013) 24 European Journal of International Law 617
  • ‘Investment Arbitration and the Law of Countermeasures’ (2008) 79 British Year Book of International Law 264
Website
https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/40273
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