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 geoeconomics. Prior to joining ANU, Anthea taught at the London School of Economics, Columbia Law School and Harvard Law School. She is currently a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute/University of Geneva.

Anthea is currently working on a book with Professor Nicolas Lamp about the economic narratives surrounding winners and losers in an age of economic globalisation (2021 HUP). Her last book Is International Law International? (2017 OUP) won numerous prizes, including the American Society of International Law’s Certificate of Merit for Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship, and was Oxford University Press’s top-selling law monograph worldwide in 2017 and 2018.

Anthea has twice been awarded the Francis Deák Prize by the American Society of International Law for the best article published in the American Journal of International Law by a scholar under 40 years of age and was the recipient of an ANU Futures Award and a Philip Leverhulme Prize. She 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).

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 and as an arbitrator and sole arbitrator in international commercial arbitrations. She has served as a testifying and consulting legal expert in international law cases, including those before national courts and international tribunals. 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.

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