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King’s College London
Laurea in Giu (Florence), LLM (Georgetown), PhD (EUI)
federico.ortino@kcl.ac.uk
t: +44 207 848 1747
f: +44 207 848 2465
Strand
London
WC2R 2LS
England, United Kingdom
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Research Interests
World trade law
International investment law
International arbitration
EU internal market law
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Subjects Taught
World trade law (spring)
Brief Bio
Federico Ortino is Reader in International Economic Law at King’s. Member of the ILA Committee on International Trade Law. Founding Committee Member, Society of International Economic Law. Editorial Board Member, Journal of International Economic Law. Previously, Director, Investment Treaty Forum, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London; Adjunct Professor at the Universities of Florence and Trento; Emile Noël Fellow and Fulbright Scholar at the NYU Jean Monnet Center in New York; Legal Officer at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva.
Dr Ortino’s research centres on international economic law focusing in particular on WTO law, international investment law and arbitration and EU internal market law. In previous writing, he has addressed principles such as non-discrimination, reasonableness and proportionality employed in various legal systems as instruments for international economic governance. He has recently focused on the regulation of trade in services within the WTO and in regional trade agreements. His current research is concerned with the legal challenges faced by the emerging system of international investment law. |
Representative Publications
Monograph
- Basic Legal Instruments for the Liberalisation of Trade: a Comparative Analysis of EC and WTO Law (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2004)
Edited books
- Oxford Handbook of International Investment Law (eds.) (Oxford, OUP, 2008) (co-edited with P Muchlinski & C Schreuer)
- Regional Trade Agreements and the WTO Legal System (eds.) (Oxford, OUP, 2006) (co-edited with L Bartels)
- WTO Dispute Settlement System: 1995-2003 (eds.) (The Hague, Kluwer, 2004) (co-edited with EU Petersmann)
Articles/Contributions
- “GATT”, in D Bethlehem, D McRae, R Neufeld & I Van Damme (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law (Oxford, OUP, 2009)
- “Services” in S Lester & B Mercurio (eds.) Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements: Commentary and Analysis (Cambridge, CUP, 2009)
- “The Principle of Non-discrimination and its Exceptions in GATS: Selected Legal Issues” in M Andenas & K Alexander (eds.) The World Trade Organization and Trade in Services (Brill/Nijhof, 2008)
- “Treaty Interpretation and the WTO Appellate Body Report in US – Gambling: A Critique” in 9 Journal of International Economic Law (1, 2006)
- “The Social Dimension of International Investment Agreements: Drafting a New BIT/MIT Model?” in 7 International Law FORUM du droit international (4, 2005)
- “From Non-Discrimination to Reasonableness: A Paradigm Shift in International Economic Law?”, Jean Monnet Working Papers (1, 2005)
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