Professor Joost Pauwelyn

Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland and is a Senior Advisor in the firm's International Trade practice group

Co-teaches the second general course: International Legal Proceedings

Currently Senior Advisor for King & Spalding LLP in Washington DC, Professor Pauwelyn specializes in international economic law and WTO dispute settlement. He regularly advises law firms, governments and other actors on WTO dispute settlement cases proceedings, bilateral investment disputes, market access, trade negotiations, climate change, and other trade and investment policy and regulatory matters. Prior to joining the Graduate Institute's faculty in 2007, Professor Pauwelyn served as a Legal Affairs Officer for the World Trade Organization in the Legal Affairs Division and in the Appellate Body Secretariat (1996 - 2002). He was also a tenured professor at Duke University Law School and has taught at the law schools of Neuchâtel University, Columbia University, New York University and Georgetown University. His research interests include international economic law - particularly in trade law and investment law - and its relationship to public international law; non -discrimination in international law; fragmentation of international law; enforcement; law and economics of public international law; trade policy to fight climate change; appellate review in the WTO.

Professor Pauwelyn received his Master's degree in law (Lic. Jur., magna cum laude) from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, his Magister Juris (with first class honours) from the University of Oxford, Corpus Christi College, UK, and his Ph.D. in law from the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland. He was also an Erasmus scholar at the University of London, Queen Mary and Westfield College and a researcher at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

1. Global Challenges at the Intersection of Trade, Energy and The Environment (CEPR, 2010)
2. (with Andrew Guzman) International Trade Law (Wolters Kluwer/Aspen, 2009)
3. Conflict of Norms in Public International Law, winner of the Guggenheim Prize, 2005
4. The Transformation of World Trade, Human Rights and International Trade and Conflict of Norms in Public International Law (Guggenheim Prize, 2005)
5. (with Thomas Cottier and Elisabeth Burgi) Human Rights and International Trade (Oxford University Press, 2005)
6. Conflict of Norms in Public International Law - How WTO Law Relates to Other Rules of International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2003 - translated & published in Chinese, Law Press China, 2005)