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Anthea Roberts
Professor Anthea Roberts
Qualifications
BA/LLB ANU, LLM NYU and PhD, ANU
Anthea Roberts is a Professor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) who specialises in public international law, international economic law, comparative international law, and the effect of geopolitical change on global governance. Prior to joining ANU, Anthea taught at the London School of Economics, Columbia Law School and Harvard Law School. Anthea chairs the ANU Working Group on Geoeconomics and is currently writing a book with Professor Nicolas Lamp called Winners and Losers: Narratives About Economic Globalisation (2021 Harvard University Press).
In 2019, Anthea was named the world’s leading international law scholar and Australia’s leading law scholar based on the quality of her publications and the quantity of citations they had received. Her last book Is International Law International? (2017) won numerous prizes, including the American Society of International Law’s Book Prize, and was Oxford University Press’s top-selling law monograph worldwide in 2017-2018. Anthea has twice been awarded the Francis Deák Prize for the best article published in the American Journal of International Law by a younger scholar and received an ANU Futures Award and a UK Philip Leverhulme Prize.
Anthea is or has been an editor for the American Journal of International Law, the European Journal of International Law, the Journal of International Economic Law, the Journal of World Trade and Investment and the ICSID Review. She was one of the Reporters for the Restatement of the Law Fourth, Foreign Relations of the United States (2018), and was one of two inaugural Legal Fellows for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (2017-18).
Anthea has served as counsel and an expert in investment treaty arbitrations, as an arbitrator and sole arbitrator in international commercial arbitrations, and as a testifying and consulting expert in international law cases. Prior to becoming an academic, Anthea spent five years as a lawyer at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP in New York and London and was an Associate to Chief Justice Murray Gleeson at the High Court of Australia.
Anthea has a BA/LLB from the ANU (National Undergraduate Scholarship, 1st Class Hons and University Medal), an LLM from NYU (Fulbright Scholar, Hauser Scholar and Jerome Lipper Award) and PhD from the ANU (JG Crawford Award).
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Challenges and Opportunities in the Post COVID19 World
A new report released by the World Economic Forum aims to provide new perspectives on the future of the

Commentary: Is the Virus Killing Globalization? There’s No One Answer Professor Anthea Roberts writes in Barron's
Professor Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp write about how the coronavirus pandemic evidences “kaleidoscopic complexity” and explain what the virus means for economic globalization through the lens

Staff Profile: Anthea Roberts
Anthea Roberts is a Professor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) who specialises in public international law, international economic law, comparative international law and g

Anthea Roberts awarded J.G. Crawford Prize at 2019 December graduation
During the 2019 December graduation ceremony ANU RegNet’s Professor Anthea Roberts was awarded th

Anthea Roberts named leading scholar in international law worldwide
Professor Anthea Roberts of the School of Regulation and Global Governance (ANU College of Asia and the Pacific) has been named as the leading scholar in the field of Inte

Is International Law International? by Prof Anthea Roberts shortlisted for the Hart-SLSA book prize
The School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) is pleased to congratulate Professor Anthea Roberts on the continue

Anthea Roberts makes 2018 CHASS Australia Book Prize longlist
The acclaim for the latest book by ANU Law alumna and RegNet Associate Professor, Dr Anthea Roberts

Book by Dr Anthea Roberts makes 2018 CHASS Australia Book Prize Longlist
2018 CHASS Australia Book Prize Longlist announced

Inspiring women of RegNet
To mark International Women’s Day this year we are celebrating some of the professional and academic staff who make our College a world-leading institution for research and teaching on Asia and the

Anthea Roberts wins top international law award
Associate Professor Anthea Roberts from the ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) has won the American Society of International Law’s most high profile and prestigious book prize for her recent monograph Is International Law International? (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Is International Law International?
ANU’s Anthea Roberts publishes landmark book exploring the national biases in international law.

What Does the Future Look Like for International Investment Treaties?
The investor-state arbitration landscape is shifting under our feet.

US air strikes on Syria: what happens when the US fails to provide a legal justification?
RegNet’s Anthea Roberts provides expert legal commentary on the US airstrikes on Syria.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the global pivot to Asia
ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) experts predict that Trump’s withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will bring the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) to the forefront of Australia’s trade agenda.

Investment treaty law and arbitration: common controversies
Anthea Roberts continues her introduction to investment treaty law and arbitration, focusing this time on controversies.

An introduction to investment treaty law and arbitration
What is investment, and why seek to protect it?
Pages
Current

Reframing the investment treaty system
This project examines mechanisms within existing and future investment treaties and public international law that permit states to re-engage with the investment treaty system in order to better protec

Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States
Anthea Roberts serves as a Reporter for the Restatement (Fourth) of the Foreign Relations Law of the United States.
Completed

Comparative international law
This project looks at cross-national similarities and differences in the way in which international law is understood, interpreted, applied, and approached by different actors in and from different st

Author(s): Anthea Roberts
Date of publications: 2018
Publication type: Journal article

Author(s): Anthea Roberts
Date of publications: 2018
Publication type: Journal article

Author(s): Anthea Roberts, Congyan Cai
Date of publications: 2018
Publication type: Journal article

Author(s): Anthea Roberts, Sandesh Sivakumaran
Date of publications: 2018
Publication type: Journal article

Author(s): Anthea Roberts
Date of publications: 2017
Publication type: Book