Jorge Enrique Viñuales
- Nationality
- Argentina
- Year of election
- 2019
- Year of titular member
- 2023
Function(s)
- Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy, University of Cambridge
- Chairman, Compliance Committee of the UNECE/WHO Protocol on Water and Health
- Co-General Editor, ICSID Reports ; General Editor, Cambridge Studies on Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance, Cambridge University Press
Area(s) of Expertise
- Public international law
- Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Law
- International Investment Law and Arbitration
- International Dispute Settlement
- Human Rights
Biography
Professor Jorge E. Viñuales holds the Harold Samuel Chair of Law and Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge and is the founder and former Director of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG). He is also an Associé of the Institut de Droit International, the Chairman of the Compliance Committee of the UN-ECE/WHO-Europe Protocol on Water and Health, the co-General Editor of the ICSID Reports (CUP), the General-Editor of the Cambridge Studies on Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (CUP), a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the Shanghai International Arbitration Centre and the Director-General of the Latin American Society of International Law. Prior to joining Cambridge, he was the Pictet Chair of International Environmental Law at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, where he keeps a limited affiliation as Adjunct Professor of Public International Law.
Selected publications
- Cassese’s International Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2020, with P. Gaeta and S. Zappalà)
- The UN Friendly Relations Declaration at 50: A Study of the Fundamental Principles of International Law (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2020)(ed.)
- The International Law of Energy (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2020)
- The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law (Oxford University Press, 2019, co-ed. with E. Lees)
- Experiments in International Adjudication: Historical Accounts (Cambridge University Press, 2019, co-ed. with I. de la Rasilla)
- The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development. A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2015)(ed)
- International Environmental Law (Cambridge University Press, 2015, second edition 2018, with P.-M. Dupuy) [French translation, Introduction au droit international de l’environnement, Bruxelles: Bruylant, 2015]
- The Foundations of International Investment Law (Oxford University Press, 2014, co-edited with Z. Douglas and J. Pauwelyn)
- Foreign Investment and the Environment in International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2012, reprint 2015)
- Diplomatic and Judicial Means of Dispute Settlement (Martinus Nijhoff, 2012, co-edited with L. Boisson de Chazournes and M. G. Kohen).