Research Interests
Public international law
World trade law
EU external relations law

Subjects Taught
World Trade Law (Fall)

Brief Bio

Lorand Bartels is University Lecturer in International Law and a Fellow of Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge. He was formerly Lecturer in International Economic Law at the University of Edinburgh (2003-7), and in 2007 was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. He is a Member of the ILA International Trade Law Committee, a Founding Committee Member of the Society of International Economic Law, and a Co-Editor of the Cambridge International Trade and Economic Law Series (CUP). His current interests include regional trade agreements and the EU’s trade relations with developing countries, and recently he has been advising African, Caribbean and Pacific countries on these issues.

Representative Publications

1. Human Rights Conditionality in the EU’s International Agreements (OUP, 2005)
2. Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO Legal System (co-editor with Federico Ortino) (OUP, 2006)
3. 'The WTO Legality of the EU's GSP+ Arrangement' (2007) 10 Journal of International Economic Law 869-886
4. ‘The Trade and Development Policy of the European Union’ (2007) 18 European Journal of International Law 715-56; also published in M Cremona (ed), New Developments in the EU’s External Relations Law, Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law (OUP, 2008)