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MR. ERIC DE BRABANDERE Associate Professor of International Law Leiden University’s Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies

Eric De Brabandere is Associate Professor of International Law at Leiden University’s Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies. He is also a Member of the Brussels Bar practicing international law and arbitration, a Visiting Professor at the Faculté Libre de Droit of the Université Catholique de Lille (France), Editor-in-Chief of the Leiden Journal of International Law and a member of the Board of Editors of the Revue belge de droit international (Belgian Review of International Law) and the Journal of World Investment and Trade.

Eric De Brabandere holds a law degree cum laude from Ghent University (2001) and a Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies en Droit International Public (LL.M.) from the University of Geneva (2002). He received his doctorate in law (PhD) at Ghent University in 2007.

His areas of expertise are international dispute settlement, investment law and arbitration, and general international law. He is the author of several publications in these fields, published in leading law journals such as the CSID Review – Foreign Investment Law Journal, Journal of International Dispute Settlement, The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals, Chicago Journal of International Law, Fordham International Law Journal, and International Organizations Law Review. He has published and edited several books, including Foreign investment in the energy sector: balancing private and public interests (edited with T. Gazzini) (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2014 – forthcoming), International Investment Law. The Sources of Rights and Obligations (edited with T. Gazzini) (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012) and Post-conflict Administrations in International Law (Martinus Nijhoff, 2009).

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He was awarded a VENI research grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) in 2010 to conduct a three-year research project on the Public-Private Divide in the Resolution of Contemporary Investment Disputes.

At Leiden University, Eric De Brabandere teaches the courses International Dispute Settlement in the Regular and Advanced Master Programs in Public International Law.

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