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Professeur assistant, Droit international

Pictet Chair in International Environmental Law

Profil

Doctorat, Sciences Po Paris / LL.M., Harvard

Professor Viñuales joined the Institute's Law Faculty in 2009. He is also Counsel with the law firm Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, Geneva, as well as the Executive Director of the Latin American Society of International Law. He is currently active both as an academic and a practitioner in the fields of international environmental law and natural resources as well as international investment law and arbitration.

Before joining the Institute, he was a full-time practitioner specializing in international investment law. He worked on many cases under ICSID, UNCITRAL, PCA, ICC or LCIA rules, including several high profile inter-State or investor-State disputes. He also served as consultant or provided advice on different matters of international law to companies, governments, international organizations or major NGOs.

Professor Viñuales was educated in France (Doctorat - Sciences Po Paris), the United States (LL.M. - Harvard Law School), Switzerland (D.E.A./licence in international relations - HEI; lic. iur. - University of Fribourg; D.E.A./licence in political science - University of Geneva), and Argentina (Abogado – UNICEN).

He is a member of the New York and Buenos Aires Bars as well as of numerous professional and academic organizations, including the London Court of International Arbitration, the Swiss Arbitration Association, the Spanish Arbitration Committee, the European Society of International Law, the Société française pour le droit international, the Argentine Centre for International Studies, the Harvard Clubs of Switzerland and Europe, the Sciences Po Alumni Association, the HEI Alumni Association, and others. He is also a former board member of Harvard's International Law Society.

Professor Viñuales' mother tongue is Spanish, and he is fluent in French, English and Italian.

Domaines d'expertise

• Climate, climate change, natural disasters
• Dispute settlement
• Energy
• Environment, environmental policies and law
• Finance, Financial markets, international investment
  
• Natural resources, extractive economies, commodities
  
• Water
  

International Environmental Law and Natural Resources ; International Investment Law and Arbitration ; Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law ; United Nations Law ; Philosophy of Law

Publications séléctionnées

Books and monographs:

• Introduction au droit international de l'environnement, Brussels: Bruylant, forthcoming (co-authored with P.-M. Dupuy).
• Foreign Investment and the Environment in International Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
• "El régimen jurídico internacional relativo al cambio climático: Perspectivas y Prospectivas", in: Organization of American States (O.A.S.)/Inter-American Juridical Committee, Course on International Law ("Universalism and Regionalism at the Beginning of the 21st Century"), vol. XXXVI, 2009

Selected refereed articles and chapters in edited books:

• "Monitoring Compliance with Standards for the Protection of the Environment", in CASSESE, A. (ed.), Towards a Realistic Utopia, Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
• "Iced Freshwater Resources: A Legal Exploration", in Yearbook of International Environmental Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, vol. 20, 2009, forthcoming.
• "Michel Virally et le phénomène juridique", in Annuaire français de droit international, C.N.R.S., vol. 55, 2009, forthcoming.
• "Legal Techniques for Dealing with Scientific Uncertainty in Environmental Law", in Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, vol. 43, no. 2, 2010, pp. 437-503.
• "Access to Water in Foreign Investment Disputes", in Georgetown International Environmental Law Review, vol. 21/4, 2009, pp. 733-751.
• "The Contribution of the International Court of Justice to the Development of International Environmental Law", in Fordham International Law Journal, vol. 32/1, 2008, pp. 232-258.
• "L''amicus curiae dans l'arbitrage d'investissement", in ICSID Review. Foreign Investment Law Journal, vol. 22/2, 2007, pp. 380 - 432 (co-author with Florian Grisel).

Autres activités

Counsel, Lévy Kaufmann-Kohler, Geneva, Switzerland (www.lk-k.com)

Executive Director, Latin-American Society of International Law (www.lasil-sladi.org)

Documents

Vinuales_Résumé_May_2010.pdf (73 Kb)	May 10, 2010
Prof_Vinuales_Selected_recent_and_projected_conferences _July_2010.pdf (21 Kb)	Jul 12, 2010
Prof._Vinuales_Publications_list -_July 2010.pdf (28 Kb)	Jul 12, 2010