Roberts, Anthea

Ms Anthea Roberts  

Department

Position held

Associate Professor of Law

 

Experience keywords:

extraterritorial and universal jurisdiction; international law; investment treaty law

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Anthea Roberts is a Lecturer in Law, teaching Public International Law, International Dispute Resolution and Investment Treaty Law. Anthea joined LSE in 2008 and is one of the co-founders of LSE’s Transnational Law Project.

Current research interests include: the interpretation and development of investment treaty law; the adjudication of international law before international courts and tribunals; comparative approaches to international law before domestic courts; re-theorizing the doctrine of sources of international law, particularly with respect to challenges posed by state empowered bodies (including various international organizations) and non-state actors (including armed opposition groups); and extraterritorial and universal jurisdiction.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Law

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7726

Publications

2015

Roberts, Anthea (2015) Is international law international? Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. (In Press)

Roberts, Anthea and Stephan, Paul and Verdier, Pierre-Hugues and Versteeg, Mila, eds (2015) Comparative international law Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. (In Press)

Roberts, Anthea (2015) Triangular treaties: the nature and limits of investment treaty rights Harvard International Law Journal, 56 (2). 353-417. ISSN 0017-8063

2014

Roberts, Anthea and Trahanas, Christina (2014) Judicial review of investment treaty awards: BG Group v. Argentina American Journal of International Law, 108 (4). 750-762. ISSN 0002-9300

Roberts, Anthea (2014) State-to-state investment treaty arbitration: a hybrid theory of interdependent rights and shared interpretive authority Harvard International Law Journal, 55 (1).

2013

Roberts, Anthea (2013) Clash of paradigms: actors and analogies shaping the investment treatys system American Journal of International Law, 107 (1). 45-94. ISSN 0002-9300

2012

Roberts, Anthea and Sivakumaran , Sandesh (2012) Lawmaking by nonstate actors: engaging armed groups in the creation of international humanitarian law Yale Journal of International Law, 37 (1). 108-153. ISSN 0889-7743

2011

Roberts, Anthea (2011) Comparative international law: the role of national courts in creating and enforcing international law International and Comparative Law Quarterly, 60 (1). 57-92. ISSN 0020-5893

2010

Roberts, Anthea (2010) Who killed article 38(1)(b)?: a reply to Bradley and Gulati Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law, 21 (1). 173-190. ISSN 1053-6736

Roberts, Anthea (2010) Power and persuasion in investment treaty interpretation: the dual role of states American Journal of International Law, 104 (2). 179-225. ISSN 0002-9300

2008

Roberts, Anthea (2008) Legality vs. legitimacy: can uses of force be illegal but justified? In: Alston, Philip and MacDonald, Euan, (eds.) Human Rights, Intervention, and the Use of Force. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199552719

2006

Donovan, Donald Francis and Roberts, Anthea (2006) The emerging principle of universal civil jurisdiction American Journal of International Law, 100 (1). 142-163. ISSN 0002-9300

2004

Roberts, Anthea (2004) Righting wrongs or wronging rights?: the United States and human rights post-September 11 European Journal of International Law, 15 (4). 721. ISSN 0938-5428

2003

Roberts, Anthea (2003) Traditional and modern approaches to customary international Law In: Ku, Charlotte and Diehl, Paul, (eds.) International Law: Classic and Contemporary Readings. American Society of International Law. ISBN 9781588266279

2002

Roberts, Anthea (2002) Gender and refugee law Australian Yearbook of International Law, 22. 159-200. ISSN 0084-7658

2001

Roberts, Anthea (2001) Traditional and modern approaches to customary international law American Journal of International Law, 95 (4). 757-791. ISSN 0002-9300

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Awards

Francis Deák Prize (2002, 2011)

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Anthea has a Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy and Mathematics) and a Bachelor of Laws from the Australian National University, graduating in 2000 with First Class Honours in Law and a University Medal in Law. She also has an LLM from New York University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, a Hauser Scholar and a CV Starr Global Scholar, graduating in 2003 with the award for the best student in the International Legal Studies program. From 2003 to 2008, Anthea was a lawyer in the International Dispute Resolution Group at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York and London where she litigated international law cases before international courts, arbitral tribunals and domestic courts. Previously, she served as an Associate to the Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, the Hon. A.M. Gleeson AC, and as a Summer Clerk for the Hon. Judge Simma at the International Court of Justice.

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