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Room: B5 Gonville Court

B.A., LL.B., LL.M. in Environmental Law (Hons I) (Auck), LL.M. in International Legal Studies (NYU), Ph.D. (Syd)

CV / Biography

Dr Kate Miles is a Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. She engages in both doctrinal and critical legal theory research. She has published extensively on the relationship between international investment law and climate change mitigation measures. Her research in international investment law also engages with historical and postcolonial approaches to the subject. Her more recent research explores the visuality of international law. She is the author of a monograph published in 2013 (paperback edition published in 2015) in the Cambridge University Press series, Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, entitled: The Origins of International Investment Law: Empire, Environment and the Safeguarding of Capital. She is also the co-editor (with Chester Brown) of Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Dr Miles is a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge. She has served on the International Law Association’s Study Group on the Role of Soft Law Instruments in International Investment Law and coordinated the international investment law network for the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL). She served as the Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law, University of Sydney, and acted as a consultant to APEC, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) on matters related to investor-state arbitration and climate change. She has spoken at meetings of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference in Geneva, the United Nations Leading Group on Solidarity Levies to Fund Development, and at the 2009 Copenhagen Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 15). She has also been engaged as an expert witness in litigation involving environmental impact assessment requirements in the South Pacific. Dr Miles currently serves on the Editorial Board of the London Review of International Law, on the International Advisory Board of the Chinese Journal of Environmental Law, and as a Faculty Advisory Board Member for the Cambridge International Law Journal.

As an undergraduate in law and arts at the University of Auckland, she studied law, art history, philosophy and ancient history. She holds a B.A. in Art History, LL.B., and an LL.M. in Environmental Law (Hons I) from the University of Auckland, an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from NYU School of Law, and a Ph.D. from the University of Sydney. She was the recipient of the Stout Shield for Mooting, the Geoffrey Powell Prize, and the Gary Davies Medal as an undergraduate in law at the University of Auckland. She was awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award scholarship to pursue her doctorate at the University of Sydney on the interrelationship between international investment law and principles of environmental protection. She also practiced for several years in the litigation departments of leading commercial law firms in Auckland and Sydney, including at Allens Arthur Robinson (now Allens Linklaters).

Publications

 

Books

Research Handbook on Environment and Investment Law (ed)) 2nd Edition, forthcoming

Published Forthcoming

Visual International Law: Image, Symbol, Art and Architecture (Cambridge University Press), forthcoming

Published Forthcoming

Research Handbook on Environment and Investment Law (ed) (Edward Elgar, 2019)

The Origins of International Investment Law: Empire, Environment and the Safeguarding of Capital (Cambridge University Press, 2013)

Published Oct 2013

Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration (with Chester Brown) (eds) (Cambridge University Press, 2011)

Co-Author/s:
Chester Brown
Published Nov 2011

Articles

"Painting International Law as Universal: Imperialism and the Co-opting of Image and Art" (2020) 8:3 London Review of International Law 367

Citation:
(2020) 8:3 London Review of International Law 367
Published: Jan 2021

"Visuality of a Treaty: Reflections on Versailles" (2020) 8:1 London Review of International Law 7

Citation:
(2020) 8:1 London Review of International Law 7
Published: Oct 2020

"Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Conflict, Convergence and Future Directions" (2016) European Yearbook of International Economic Law 273

Citation:
(2016) European Yearbook of International Economic Law 273
Published: Jan 2016

"International Investment Law and Universality: Histories of Shape-Shifting" (2014) 3 Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law 986

Citation:
(2014) 3 Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law 986
Published: Feb 2014

"Investing in Adaptation: Mobilising Private Finance for Adaptation in Developing States" (2011) 2 Carbon and Climate Law Review 190

Citation:
(2011) 2 Carbon and Climate Law Review 190
Published: Oct 2011

"Arbitrating Climate Change: Regulatory Regimes and Investor-State Disputes" (2010) 1 Climate Law 63

Citation:
(2010) 1 Climate Law 63
Published: Oct 2010

"International Investment Law: Origins, Imperialism and Conceptualising the Environment" (2010) 21 Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law 1

Citation:
(2010) 21 Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law 1
Published: Aug 2010

"'Back to the Future’ for Investor-State Arbitrations: Revising Rules in Australia and Japan to Meet Public Interests (with Luke Nottage)" (2009) 26 Journal of International Arbitration 25

Co-Author/s:
Luke Nottage
Citation:
(2009) 26 Journal of International Arbitration 25
Published: Sep 2009

"Transforming Foreign Investment: Globalisation, the Environment and a Climate of Controversy" (2007) 7 Macquarie Law Journal 81

Citation:
(2007) 7 Macquarie Law Journal 81
Published: Oct 2007

"Innovative Financing: Filling in the Gaps on the Road to Sustainable Environmental Funding" (2005) 14 Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 202

Citation:
(2005) 14 Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 202
Published: Oct 2005

Book Chapters

"Investment" in Lavanya Rajamani and Jacqueline Peel (ed(s)), The Oxford Handbook of International Environmental Law (Oxford University Press, 2021)

Published Sep 2021

"1917: Property, Revolution and Rejection in International Law" in Kathryn Greenman, Anne Orford, Anna Saunders and Ntina Tzouvala (ed(s)), Revolutions in International Law: The Legacies of 1917 (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

Published Jan 2021

"'Uneven Empires': Extraterritoriality and the Early Trading Companies" in Daniel S. Margolies et al (ed(s)), The Extraterritoriality of Law: History, Theory, Politics (Routledge, 2019)

Publisher:
Published Mar 2019

"International Investment Law and the Environment: Introduction" in Kate Miles (ed(s)), Research Handbook on Environment and Investment Law , 2019)

Published Feb 2019

"Insulae Moluccae: Map of the Spice Islands, 1594" in Jessie Hohmann and Daniel Joyce (ed(s)), International Law's Objects (Oxford University Press, 2018)

Published Dec 2018

"History and International Law: Method and Mechanism—Empire and 'Usual' Rupture" in Stephan Schill, Christian Tams and Rainer Hofmann (ed(s)), International Investment Law and History (Routledge, 2018)

Publisher:
Published Jan 2018

"Australia and International Dispute Settlement" (with Natalie Klein and Henry Burmester)" (with Natalie Klein and Henry Burmester) in Donald R Rothwell and Emily Crawford (ed(s)), International Law in Australia (Thomson Reuters, 2017)

Publisher:
Published Jan 2017

"Climate Change: Trading, Investing and the Interaction of Law, Science and Technology" in Bryan Mercurio and Kuei-Jung Ni (ed(s)), Science and Technology in International Economic Law: Balancing Competing Interests (Routledge, 2014)

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Published Jan 2014

"Soft Law Instruments in Environmental Law: Models for International Investment Law?" in Andrea K Bjorklund and August Reinisch (ed(s)), International Investment Law and Soft Law (Edward Elgar, 2012)

Published Oct 2012

"Introduction: Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration" (with Chester Brown) in Chester Brown and Kate Miles (ed(s)), Evolution in Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration, 2011)

Published Nov 2011

"Sustainable Development, National Treatment and Like Circumstances in Investment Law" in Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Andrew Newcombe and Markus Gehring (ed(s)), Sustainable Development in World Investment Law (Kluwer, 2011)

Published Oct 2011

"Reconceptualising International Investment Law: Bringing the Public Interest into Private Business" in Meredith Kolsky-Lewis and Susy Frankel (ed(s)), International Economic Law and National Autonomy (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Published Oct 2010

"Blue Oil: Water Resources, Social Justice and the International Law on Foreign Investment" in Natalie Klein et al (ed(s)), Globalisation and International Law: The Quest for Social and Environmental Justice (Routledge, 2010)

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Published Aug 2010

"Targeting Financiers: Can Voluntary Codes of Conduct for the Investment and Financing Sectors Achieve Environmental and Sustainability Objectives?" in Kurt Deketelaere et al (ed(s)), Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation (Oxford University Press, 2008)

Published Oct 2008

Conference Papers

"Through Image and Object: Constructing, Erasing, Living Visual International Law" (Beauty and Power: Aesthetics, History, & International Law, Geneva Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, October 2023)

Conference:
Beauty and Power: Aesthetics, History, & International Law, Geneva Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, October 2023
Published: Oct 2023

"Visual International Law and Imperialism: Painting and Building Universality and Authority" (presented in the Art, Architecture and International Law Seminar Series, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, February 2021)

Conference:
presented in the Art, Architecture and International Law Seminar Series, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, February 2021
Published: Feb 2021

"Balance, Caution and Critique’" (presented at Socially and Environmentally Responsible Investment in International Law, European Society of International Law, Católica Global School of Law, Lisbon, October 2019)

Conference:
presented at Socially and Environmentally Responsible Investment in International Law, European Society of International Law, Católica Global School of Law, Lisbon, October 2019
Published: Oct 2019

"Visuality of Versailles: Response and Reflection" (presented at 'Revisiting the Paris Peace Conference, 1919', London School of Economics, October 2019)

Conference:
presented at 'Revisiting the Paris Peace Conference, 1919', London School of Economics, October 2019
Published: Oct 2019

"Depicting International Law as Universal: Art and Image as Propaganda" (presented at 'International Law and Universality', European Society of International Law, University of Manchester, September 2018)

Conference:
presented at 'International Law and Universality', European Society of International Law, University of Manchester, September 2018
Published: Sep 2018

"Image, Art and Object in International Law: A Focus on Maps" (presented at 'Conversations on International Law, Materiality and Art', Queen Mary University of London, November 2017)

Conference:
presented at 'Conversations on International Law, Materiality and Art', Queen Mary University of London, November 2017
Published: Nov 2017

"Image, Empire and Geography in International Law" (presented at 'Law in International Orders: Past and Present', Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, May 2016)

Conference:
presented at 'Law in International Orders: Past and Present', Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, May 2016
Published: May 2016

"Environmental Disputes in Trade and Investment" (The 22nd Luojia Lecture on Environmental Law, Wuhan University, School of Law, Wuhan, China, March 2016)

Conference:
The 22nd Luojia Lecture on Environmental Law, Wuhan University, School of Law, Wuhan, China, March 2016
Published: Mar 2016

"Universality and International Investment Law: Past in the Present" (presented at Stepping Away from the State: Universality and Cosmopolitanism in International and Comparative Law, University of Cambridge, May 2014 )

Conference:
presented at Stepping Away from the State: Universality and Cosmopolitanism in International and Comparative Law, University of Cambridge, May 2014
Published: May 2014

"International Investment Law and Climate Change: Issues in the Transition to a Low Carbon World" (Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) Inaugural Conference 2008)

Conference:
Society of International Economic Law (SIEL) Inaugural Conference 2008
Published: Jul 2008

Reports

Transparency: UNCTAD Series on Issues in International Investment Agreements II, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (2012)

Body / Institution:
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Published: Dec 2012