Ms Aliki Athina Papanastasiou

Education CV

Education:

Harvard Law School, Visiting Doctoral Researcher (2023-ongoing)
University of Cambridge, PhD in Law (2021-ongoing)
University of Cambridge, Master of Law (First Class) in International Law (2018-2019)
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Bachelor of Law, Salutatorian (2014-2018)
DEREE – The American College of Greece, School of Business, Minor in Finance (2016-2018)
Harvard University, Summer Course on International Business: Context & Strategies (2017)
International Academy for Arbitration Law, Advanced Summer Course on International Investment and Commercial Arbitration (2016)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Summer Course on International Commercial Litigation and Arbitration (2015)

Scholarships and Awards:

Modern Law Review Scholarship (2023-2024)
AG Leventis Foundation Scholarship (2021-2024)
Jacovides Prize, St John’s College (2019)
McAulay Scholarship, St John’s College (2019)
A Gazis Trust Scholarship (2018-2019)
A Papadakis Trust Scholarship (2015-2018)
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Scholarship (2016-2018)
Laureate of the Arbitration Academy, International Academy For Arbitration Law (2016)
Award by the President of the Hellenic Republic (2016)
Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot (2016)
- Frédéric Eisemann Team Orals Honorable Mention
- Werner Melis Honorable Mention for Best Written Memoranda
Award by the Dean of the University of Athens (2015)
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) International Arbitration Moot (2014)
- Third Place, Global Orals
- Honourable Mention Advocate, Global Orals
Eurobank EFG’s Award for top performance at the university admission examination (2013)

Selected Activities:

Cambridge International Law Journal
- Editor-in-Chief (2022-)
- Managing Editor (2021-2022)
Athens Public International Law Centre – Researcher (2021-)
Cambridge Arbitration Society (CUArb)
- President (2022-)
- Treasurer (2021-2022)
- Co-Convener of Cambridge Arbitration Days (2021-2022)
Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot
- Coach, University of Cambridge (2021-2022)
- Coach, University of Athens (2017-2018)
- Team Member and Oralist, University of Athens (2015-2016)
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) International Arbitration Moot
- Member of the Case Committee – Author of the 2019 Moot Case (2018-2019)
- Coach, University of Athens (2016-2017)
- Team Member and Oralist, University of Athens (2013-2014)
International Trade Law Clinic; Athens Public International Law Centre
- Coordinator, Research Team on Sanctions against monopolies and illegal government support (2016-2017)
- Researcher, Research Team on Subsidies under WTO Law (2014-2015)
United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD), IIAs Mapping Project – Researcher (2016)

Legal practice and other employment:

Three Crowns LLP (London) – Associate (2021-); Intern (2020-2021)
Volterra Fietta (London) – Intern (2019-2010)
Essex Court Chambers (London) – Mini Pupil (2019)
Tsibanoulis & Partners Law Firm (Athens) – Intern (2017)
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Hellenic Republic, Directorate for International Economic Organisations and Monetary Affairs – Intern (2016-2017)
Member of the Athens Bar (since 2022)

Teaching and speaking engagements:

CUArb/LCIL Lecture on ‘The Future of Oil and Gas Arbitration’, Moderator (2021)
ELSA Athens Summer School on International Investment Law
- Lecture on Corruption in Investment Arbitration (2021)
- Lecture on Jurisdiction Ratione personae: Defining the foreign ‘investor’ in International Investment Arbitration (2019)
Get Involved/Just in Case Webinar on ‘International Trade and Investment: Significance and Contemporary Challenges’, Lecture on ‘International Investment Law & Corruption’ (2021)
Young ICCA – Young ISTAC Skills Training Workshop on Cross-examination in International Arbitration, Moderator (2020)
CSSC Global Competence Debate Camp (Beijing, China) – Teacher and Debate Instructor (2019)
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Seminar on International Investment Law, Teaching Assistant (2015)

Representative Publications

Articles and Book Chapters

‘Article 8 ARSIWA: Conduct directed or controlled by a State’ in A Kulick & M Waibel (eds), Commentary on General International Law in International Investment Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2023) (co-authored with JE Viñuales)
'Lost in Conversion: Investment treaty Protection in the wake of "Francoggedon"' (forthcoming)
'Media Wars: Transparency and Aggravation in Investment Arbitration' in K Fach Gómez (ed), Private Actors in International Investment Law (European Yearbook of International Economic Law, Springer 2021) 191.

Conference Papers

‘Ad intelligendum et ad agendum: Understanding and operation of international tribunals’ (substantive) incidental jurisdiction’, 2022 ASIL Research Forum – Miami, Florida (2022)
‘Media Wars: Transparency and Aggravation in Investment Arbitration’, Colloquium on International Investment Law, “Actors in International Investment Law: Beyond Claimants, Respondents and Arbitrators” – Paris, France (2019)

Book Reviews

Oktawian Kuc, The International Court of Justice and Municipal Courts: An Inter-Judicial Dialogue (Routledge, Abingdon 2022) 304 pp, 11(2) Cambridge International Law Journal 2022 (forthcoming)

Other

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) International Arbitration Moot, case author
JR/15401/2015 (29.1.2016) – Application for international protection, Applications of Public Law Journal, vol. 1/2018, Nomiki Vivliothiki, p 89 (in Greek)
ECtHR 10.1.2017 Osmanoğlu and Kocabaş v. Switzerland (transl), Applications of Public Law Journal, vol. 2-3/2017, Nomiki Vivliothiki, p 162 (in Greek)

Education CV