Fabian Eichberger

Fabian is a PhD Candidate in public international law at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge. His research interests lie in the areas of general international law, international investment law, and German public law. Fabian’s PhD project (“Self-Judgment in International Law”) investigates to what extent states can authoritatively auto-interpret international law. His doctoral research is funded by a W.M. Tapp Studentship and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.

Before joining the University of Cambridge, Fabian was a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, and read law at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg (Dipl. Jur.), Waseda University, Tokyo (exchange), and the University of Oxford (M.Jur.).

Fabian has supervised undergraduates (B.A. in Law) in Human Rights Law and International Law. He has also conducted workshops for Cambridge LL.M. students in International Law of Global Governance, International Investment Law and International Law as a Legal System. He is currently an Associate Editor at International Law in Domestic Courts (OUP) and an Assistant Editor for Investment Arbitration at Kluwer Arbitration Blog.

Selected Scholarships & Awards

• Michigan International and Comparative Law Research Fellowship | 2023
• Rosalyn Higgins Prize | 2022
• PhD Scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation | since 2021
• W.M. Tapp Studentship | since 2020
• Clifford Chance Prize (Proxime Accessit) for the Second Best Overall Performance in the MJur at the University of Oxford | 2019
• Volterra Fietta Prize for International Dispute Settlement Awarded by the University of Oxford | 2019
• German Academic Exchange Service LL.M. Scholarship and Latham & Watkins LL.M. Scholarship | 2018-2019
• Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court: German National Champion and Latham & Watkins Award for the Best Oralist in the National Final | 2016
• Germany Scholarship (Deutschlandstipendium) | 2014-2015