We are delighted to announce that on Friday 18 November 2022, 19.00-21.00 pm, Dr. Michail Risvas will give a guest lecture for the course “Law of the World Trade Organization” in the context of the 2022/23 LL.M. in International & European Law. The lecture will take place at 45 Akadimias Str., 1st floor, Room C.
Students and researchers are encouraged to attend! Join us.
Dr. Michail Risvas is a Lecturer in Law in Southampton Law School, University of Southampton. Before joining the Law School, Dr Risvas was Assistant Professor of International Law at IE Law School in Madrid (2018 – 2021) and practised with an international law firm in Paris (2014 – 2018). He specialises in international arbitration, public international law and international economic law. Dr Risvas’s current research interests lie in the fields of public international law, international economic law, and international dispute settlement, and in particular international arbitration and the law of the World Trade Organization. He is currently working on finishing a monograph on "Discrimination in International Investment Treaty Arbitration" which is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. Dr Risvas’s experience includes acting as counsel in investment and commercial arbitration cases under the ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA, and ICC rules in the banking, defence, gaming, mining and metallurgy sectors. He is included in the lists of arbitrators of the European Commission for disputes under EU trade agreements, the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration of the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA) and the Court of Arbitration for Art (CAfA) of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute (NAI). Dr Risvas has taught at different universities in Europe and Latin America and has published in the fields of international economic law, the law of the sea and cultural heritage law. Dr Risvas holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law from the University of Athens, and a doctorate and two Master’s degrees in international law from the University of Oxford.
