Baetens Freya

Freya Baetens (Cand.Jur. (Ghent); Lic.Jur. (Ghent); LL.M. (Columbia); Ph.D. (Cambridge)) is Assistant Professor of Public International Law at Leiden University.

She wrote her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Prof. James Crawford, on the topic of 'Nationality-based discrimination in public international law, with a specific focus on human rights, trade and investment law'. She has been a Research Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and editor of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. She is a member of the Executive Board of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL), a Fellow with the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL) and a member of several ILA Committees.

She has published on a wide range of topics, incl. treaty interpretation and fragmentation of public international law, equality as a catalyst for sustainable development, foreign investment under the Kyoto Protocol, interaction between international investment and human rights law, discrimination in international migration law, and EU external relations. Concurrently with her academic activities, Dr. Freya Baetens has assisted several arbitration panels and regularly contributes to the drafting of memorials and expert opinions in international dispute settlement.