Caroline Henckels

Proportionality, standard of review and host state autonomy in investor-state arbitration

   

Start Date: 2010/10.

End Date: 2014/10.

Education

PhD candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship

New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women Fellowship Award

Visiting Scholar, The University of Melbourne Law School (January 2012)

 

Master of Laws, The University of Melbourne, Australia (2008)

First Class Honours in all subjects

Postgraduate Student Published Research Prize (2007)

 

Bachelor of Laws, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (2003)

 

Professional qualifications

Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia

Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand

 

Teaching experience

Supervisor in Administrative Law, New Hall, Newnham and Wolfson Colleges, University of Cambridge, 2011-2012

Lecturer (Sessional) in Administrative Law and in Legal Method and Reasoning, The University of Melbourne, 2007 and 2008

 

Research experience

Research Assistant to Professor James Crawford, University of Cambridge, 2011

Research Assistant to Professors Carolyn Evans and Simon Evans, The University of Melbourne, 2007

Research Assistant to Professors Andrew Mitchell and Associate Professor Tania Voon, The University of Melbourne, 2007

 

Public international law, international economic law, administrative law, human rights, legal theory

 

Refereed journal articles 

Caroline Henckels, 'Indirect Expropriation and the Right to Regulate: Revisiting Proportionality Analysis in Investor-State Arbitration' (2012) 15 Journal of International Economic Law 223

Caroline Henckels, 'Overcoming Jurisdictional Isolationism at the WTO-FTA Nexus: A Potential Approach for the WTO' (2008) 19 European Journal of International Law 571

 

Caroline Henckels, 'Exclusion of Evidence Obtained in Breach of the Right to Privacy: Will Victoria’s Charter Protect the Rights of Criminal Defendants?' (2008) 19 Public Law Review 234

 

Caroline Henckels, 'The Ostensible Flexibilities in TRIPS: Can Essential Pharmaceuticals be Excluded from Patentability in Public Health Crises?' (2007) 32 Monash University Law Review 335

 

Caroline Henckels, 'GMOs in the WTO: A Critique of the Panel's Legal Reasoning in EC - Biotech' (2006) 7 Melbourne Journal of International Law 278

 

‘Mandatory Detention of Asylum Seekers in Australia: Would a Bill of Rights Make a Difference?’ (2006) 4 Human Rights Research Journal 4

 

 

Other contributions

Lorand Bartels and Caroline Henckels, ‘Investment and the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: the Oil Sands Controversy’ (2011) Canada-European Transatlantic Dialogue (Carleton University, Centre for European Studies)

Caroline Henckels, ‘Case Note: Legal Services Commission v R (Humberstone)’ (2011) 58 Human Rights Law Resource Centre Bulletin

 

Caroline Henckels, 'Notions of Ownership: The IMF's Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers' (2007) Just Change: Governing the Commons

 

 

Conference and seminar presentations

 

Tobacco plain packaging legislation, international investment law, and protecting public health: an assessment of the Philip Morris v Australia claim, Institute for International Law and the Humanities, Melbourne Law School and McCabe Centre for Law and Cancer, Melbourne, 25 January 2012 

 

Charter Update: Human Rights Roundup: Momcilovic v R and XYZ v Victoria Police, Victorian Government Solicitor's Office Seminar Series, Melbourne, 24 March 2010 (with Claudia Geiringer)

 

Overcoming Jurisdictional Isolationism at the WTO - FTA Nexus, The Future of the World Trade Organization Forum, Melbourne, 1 March 2007

The IMF’s Second Generation Initiatives: A Fig Leaf for Political Interference? Southern Perspectives on Development: Dialogue or Division? Dunedin, 1 December 2006

 

Would the High Court decision of Al-Kateb v Godwin have differed with a Bill of Rights? New Zealand Bill of Rights Act Symposium, Wellington, 10 February 2006

Dr Lorand Bartels