Prof Stephan Schill
Stephan Schill is Professor of International and Economic Law and Governance at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam. He is also General Editor of the Yearbook Commercial Arbitration published by the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), General Editor of ICCA Publications, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of World Investment & Trade, one of the major journals in international economic law.
Professor Schill’s research focuses on international investment law, investor-state dispute settlement, European Union law, and comparative public law. These fields have come together in his European Research Council-funded project on ‘Private-Public Arbitration as Transnational Regulatory Governance: Charting and Codifying the Lex Mercatoria Publica’ (see next tab for more information) and continue to mark his research.
Professor Schill has published extensively on international investment law and international dispute settlement, including its relations to other regimes of international law, European Union law, constitutional and administrative law, and commercial arbitration. Leading works include The Multilateralization of International Investment Law (Cambridge University Press 2009), as well as edited volumes on International Investment Law and Comparative Public Law (Oxford University Press 2010), International Investment Law and Development (Edward Elgar 2015) (with Christian Tams and Rainer Hofmann), Transnational Law of Public Contracts (Bruylant 2016) (with Mathias Audit), and International Investment Law and History (Edward Elgar 2018) (with Christian Tams and Rainer Hofmann). in 2022, the 3rd edition of Schreuer’s Commentary on the ICSID Convention will appear Cambridge University Press, which Professor Schill is curating as General Editor and contrubuting to as an author.
Professor Schill also has practical experience in international law and dispute resolution. Being admitted to the bar in Germany (Rechtsanwalt) and in the State of New York (Attorney-at-Law), he serves as expert and arbitrator in international arbitrations under a variety of arbitral rules, including those of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the United Nations Commission on International Trade (UNCITRAL), has acted as counsel before the European Court of Human Rights, and advises governments and international organizations on international investment law and policy. Appointed by Germany, he is a Member of the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators.