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College Associate Professor and John Thornely Fellow in Law, Sidney Sussex College; Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law

PhD (Cantab), LL.M. (NYU), LL.B. (UFRGS), Diploma of Public International Law (Hague Academy)

Interests

Public International Law, Jurisprudence, Law of Torts

Research centres and interest groups

CV / Biography

Fernando Lusa Bordin's research focuses on topics of public international law, including international legal theory, law-making, the law of international organizations, international dispute settlement, the law on the use of force and international investment law. His monograph, The Analogy between States and International Organizations, was published by Cambridge University Press and received the 2020 Certificate of Merit in a Specialized Area of International Law from the American Society of International Law. (A talk recorded for the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law where some insights from the book are discussed is available here.)

Prior to taking his post in Cambridge, Fernando received an LL.B. (with honours) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), an LL.M. from NYU School of Law (where he was a Grotius Scholar), the Diploma of Public International Law from the Hague Academy of International Law and a PhD from the University in Cambridge (for which he received the Yorke Prize). He served as Assistant to Professor Giorgio Gaja at the International Law Commission in the summers of 2009 and 2011, and as Judicial Fellow (law clerk) to Judge Cançado Trindade at the International Court of Justice between 2009 and 2010. He also worked as Research Associate to Prof James Crawford in 2014, and served as Junior Counsel for Mauritius in the Chagos Marine Protected Area Arbitration (Mauritius v UK). 

Between 2016 and 2018, Fernando served as Assistant to the ICSID Tribunal constituted to hear the case of Veolia Propreté v. Arab Republic of Egypt (ARB/12/15).

Fernando is an editor of the Oxford International Organizations (OXIO) database. He served as a Rapporteur for the Study Group of the International Law Association on the International Law of Regional Organizations.

Publications

 

Books

The European Union and Customary International Law (ed), 2022)

Co-editor(s):
A Müller and F Pascual-Vives
ISBN 13:
978-1108832977
Published Oct 2022

The Analogy between States and International Organizations (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

Articles

"International Law of Regional Organizations: A Comparative Perspective" [2024] International Organizations Law Review 19

Co-Author/s:
Jed Odermatt
Citation:
[2024] International Organizations Law Review 19
Published: May 2024

"The Quest for International Legal Status: On Finn Seyersted and the Challenges of Theorising International Organizations Law’" [2023] 34 European Journal of International 169

Citation:
[2023] 34 European Journal of International 169
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chad008
Published: Apr 2023

"Remembering Judge Cançado Trindade’s Voice, Faith and Integrity" [2023] 36 Leiden Journal of International Law 451

Citation:
[2023] 36 Leiden Journal of International Law 451
Published: Jan 2023

"To What Immunities Are International Organizations Entitled under General International Law? Thoughts on Jam v IFC and the ‘Default Rules’ of IO Immunity" (2020) 72 QIL, Zoom-in 5

Citation:
(2020) 72 QIL, Zoom-in 5
Published: Jul 2020

"General International Law in the Relations between International Organizations and their Members" (2019) 32 Leiden Journal of International Law 653

"A Glass Half Full: The Character, Functions and Value of the Two-Element Approach to Identify Customary International Law" (2019) International Community Law Review 283

Citation:
(2019) International Community Law Review 283
Published: Jul 2019

"Reflections of Customary International Law: The Authority of Codification Conventions and ILC Draft Articles in International Law" (2014) 63 ICLQ 535

Citation:
(2014) 63 ICLQ 535
Published: Jul 2014

"Continuation of Membership in the United Nations Revisited: Lessons from Fifteen Years of Inconsistency in the Jurisprudence of the ICJ" (2011) 10 The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 315

Citation:
(2011) 10 The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 315
Published: Jul 2011

"Justiça entre Gerações e a Proteção do Meio-Ambiente: Um Estudo do Conceito de Eqüidade Intergeracional em Direito Internacional Ambiental" (2008) 52 Revista de Direito Ambiental 37

Citation:
(2008) 52 Revista de Direito Ambiental 37
Published: Dec 2009

Book Chapters

"Article 55 of the ARSIWA: Lex specialis " in Andreas Kulick & Michael Waibel (ed(s)), General International Law in International Investment Law: A Commentary, 2024), pp. 412-420

Pages:
412-420
Published Feb 2024

"The Consent of International Organizations in the Making of General and Conventional Rules of International Law" in Samantha Besson (ed(s)), Consenting to International Law (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 251-273

"Is the European Union a Sui Generis International Organization? The Challenge of Arguing for Special Treatment in Customary International Law" in Bordin, Müller and Pascual Vives (ed(s)), The European Union and Customary International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp. 48-65

"State Responsibility in Advisory Proceedings: Thoughts on Judicial Propriety and Multilateralism in the Chagos Opinion", Decolonization and the International Court of Justice: New Directions From the Chagos Advisory Opinion (CUP, 2020), pp. 95-116

Pages:
95-116
Published Aug 2020

"Article 31" (with Pieter Kooijmans), The Statute of the International Court of Justice: A Commentary (Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 604-617

Pages:
604-617
Published Feb 2019

"Analogy", Concepts for International Law: Contributions to Disciplinary Thought (Edward Elgar, 2019), pp. 25-38

"The Nicaragua v US Case: An Overview of the Epochal Judgments", Nicaragua before the International Court of Justice: Impacts on International Law (Springer, 2018), pp. 59-83

Publisher:
Pages:
59-83
Published Jan 2018

"Reasserting Control through Withdrawal from Investment Agreements: What Role for the Law of Treaties?", Reassertion of Control over the Investment Treaty Regime (Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 209-229

Pages:
209-229
Published Dec 2015

Book Reviews

Review of To Reform the World: International Organizations and the Making of Modern States, by Guy Fiti Sinclair (2020) 90 BYIL

DOI:
10.1093/bybil/braa002
Published May 2020

Review of Legal Personality in International Law, by Roland Portmann (2013) 82 BYIL 546

Published Jan 2013

Case Notes

Procedural Developments at the International Court of Justice’ [February 2019 – March 2021] 20 The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 395-441

Published: Oct 2021

Reckoning with British Colonialism: The Chagos Advisory Opinion (2019) 78 Cambridge Law Journal 253-257

Published: Jun 2019

Procedural Developments at the International Court of Justice [May 2017 – January 2019] (2019) 18 The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 101-141

Published: May 2019

Procedural Developments at the International Court of Justice [July 2015 – March 2017] (2017) 16 The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 307-353

Published: Aug 2017

Procedural Developments at the International Court of Justice [June 2014 – June 2015] (2015) 14 The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 340

Published: Aug 2015

Procedural Developments at the International Court of Justice (2014) 13 LPICT 223

Published: Jul 2014

Procedural Developments at the International Court of Justice (2013) 12 LPICT 81

Published: Mar 2013

Procedural Developments at the International Court of Justice (2012) 11 LPICT 325

Published: Jul 2012