Ursula Kriebaum
Ursula Kriebaum
Professor of International Law at the Section of International Law and International Relations of the University of Vienna
In addition to teaching regularly in the LL.M International Law program, as well as the EU and International Business Law program at the University of Vienna, Ursula Kriebaum has also been lecturing regularly at the Sorbonne in Paris, as well as at the University of Vienna’s Summer School in Strobl.
Ursula Kriebaum is renowned for her positions as Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (since September 2014), Member of the Panel of Conciliators maintained by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in Washington DC/USA (since 2020), Member of the Arbitration Panel under the Agreement on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (since 2021), Alternate Member of the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE (since August 2013), and Member of the Arbitration Panel for the Protocol on Cultural Cooperation to the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States and the Republic of Korea.
Research focus
- International Investment Law (expropriation, fair and equitable treatment and other standards of investment protection)
- International Protection of Human Rights
- Expropriation in International Law
- Arbitration (Investment Arbitration, Business and Human Rights Arbitration)
- Restitution of Property arianised during the Nazi-Regime
- Implementation of International Human Rights Obligations in National Domestic Legal orders
Major recent publications
“Evaluating Social Benefits and Costs of Investment Treaties: Depoliticization of Investment Disputes”, 33 ICSID Review – FILJ, 2018, 14-28.
“The Right to Water before Investment Tribunals”, Brill Open Law (2018) 1-21.
“Indirect Expropriation: A Comparative Approach” in: A. Gattini, A. Tanzi, F. Fontanelli (eds.), General Principles of Law and International Investment Arbitration, 2018, 429-453.
“Water and Investment”, in K. Miles (ed.), Research Handbook on Environment and Investment Law, 2019, 69-106.
“Human Rights and International Investment Arbitration”, in: T. Schultz, F. Ortino (eds.), Oxford Handbook of International Arbitration, OUP, 2020, 150-185.
„Privilegien und Immunitäten im Völkerrecht“, in A. Reinisch, (ed.) Österreichisches Handbuch des Völkerrechts, 6th ed. 2021, 406-424.
“CETA –Article 8.12 Expropriation”, in: M. Bungenberg, A. Reinisch (eds.), CETA Investment Law, Article-by-Article Commentary, 2022, 292-330.
“The European Court of Human Rights’ Case Law on International Investment Issues” in H. Ruiz-Fabri/E. Stoppioni (eds.), International Investment Law: An Analysis of Major Decisions, Hart Publishing, 2022, 481-506.
“Art 41 and Art 42 of the ICSID Convention” in, Schreuer’s Commentary on the ICSID Convention, 3rd ed, 2022.
“The European Court of Humans Rights and Arbitration”, in: A. Bjorklund, F. Ferrari, S. Kröll (eds.), Cambridge Compendium of International Commercial and Investment 6 Arbitration: Selected Topics, CUP, 2023, 1981-2005.
“Investment Arbitration - Rule of Law Demands of the Domestic Judiciary (Denial of Justice, Effective Means, Judicial Expropriation)”, in: A. Reinisch/S. Schill (eds.), Investment Protection Standards and the Rule of Law, 2023, 145-172.
“International Investment Law”, in: S. McInerney-Lankford, R. McCorquodale, The Roles of International Law in Development, OUP 2023, 305-338.
“Investment Tribunal Awards and Article 35 ECHR: is the application ‘substantially the same’ as the one before the European Court of Human Rights” 2023
“The Interpretation of Exceptions” in K. Fach/C. Titi: The Award in Investment Arbitration, OUP (together with K. Wagner) 2023.
“The Uneasy Co-Existence of EU-Law and International Investment Law” in Diritto del commercio internazionale, 2024.