Dr Sergey Ripinsky

Dr Sergey Ripinsky joined the Institute in May 2006. He is involved in running the Instute's Investment Treaty Forum and is responsible for the research project on Damages in International Investment Law. He also participates in Institute's other activities and projects in the field of international economic law, his main area of interest.

Prior to joining the Institute, Sergey was a researcher at Maastricht University with a focus on trade-related matters as well as on NGO involvement in the activities of international organisations. He also has experience of interning and working at a law firm Lang Michener in Ottawa, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva.

Sergey holds a PhD from St Petersburg State University (Russia) and an LLM from Maastricht University (Netherlands).

His recent publications include:

  • NGO Involvement in International Organizations: A Legal Analysis (with P. Van den Bossche), British Institute of International & Comparative Law, November 2007.
  • "State of Necessity: Effect on Compensation", Transnational Dispute Management, Vol.4, Issue 6, November 2007.
  • Expropriation and Regulation in Investor-State Disputes, Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2007.
  • International Trade Law Aspects of Exporting Morphine and Codeine from Afghanistan, November 2006, www.biicl.org/morphine/
  • "The System of Gas Dual Pricing in Russia: Compatibility with WTO Rules", World Trade Review, Vol.3, November 2004, pp.463-481.
  • "WTO Agricultural Negotiations" (with C. Sosnow), Tradeweek, Canadian Association of Importers and Exporters, February 2003, Vol.114, No.10.
  • "Developments in the WTO Doha Negotiations on Industrial Market Access" (with C. Sosnow), Lang Michener Brief: International Trade, Summer 2003.
  • State Liability for Damages Caused to Businesses by Authorities (St. Petersburg, 2002), 230 p. (in Russian).

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