N. Jansen Calamita

N Jansen Calamita joined the Institute as Director of the Investment Treaty Forum and Senior Research Fellow in September 2010. Mr Calamita also holds the post of Lecturer in International Law at the University of Birmingham Law School. Previously, Mr Calamita was a member of the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford, a visiting fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford, and an Adjunct Professor at George Mason University in the United States.

Mr Calamita has served in the Office of the Legal Adviser in the U.S. Department of State (International Claims and Investment Disputes), representing the United States before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal and in bilateral investment matters, and in the Office of Legal Affairs at the United Nations in Vienna as a member of the UNCITRAL Secretariat working on arbitration issues. Prior to joining the U.N, he was in private practice in New York, specializing in international arbitration and litigation. He is a graduate of the Boston University Law School (J.D. summa cum laude) and the University of Oxford (BCL). He is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the District of Columbia. His research is in general public international law and the international law of investment.

Recent publications include:

  • Rights, Proportionality and Standards of Review in the International Law of Investment: The Problematic Push to Constitutionalism (in progress).
  • Purpose and Process: A Critical Look at the U.N. Register of Damage Caused by the Construction of the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (in progress).
  • Countermeasures and Jurisdiction: Between Effectiveness and Fragmentation, 42 GEORGETOWN J. INT'L L. __ (2010) (forthcoming).
  • Sanctions, Countermeasures and the Iranian Nuclear Issue, 42 VANDERBILT INT'L L.J. 1393-1442 (2009).
  • General Editor, Annual Review of Developments in International Law, 43 INT'L LAWYER 229-1188 (Summer 2009).
  • The British Bank Nationalizations: An International Law Perspective, 58 INT'L & COMP. L.Q. 119-149 (2009).
  • General Editor, Annual Review of Developments in International Law, 42 INT'L LAWYER 219-1092 (Summer 2008).
  • General Editor, Annual Review of Developments in International Law, 41 INT'L LAWYER 135-844 (Summer 2007).
  • Rethinking Comity: Towards a Coherent Treatment of International Parallel Proceedings, 27 U. PENN. J. OF INT'L ECONOMIC LAW 601-80 (Fall 2006).

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