Dr. Freya Baetens is Assistant Professor at Leiden University where she teaches Public International Law, International Economic and Environment Law to LL.M. as well as B.A. students. Apart from her academic activities, she is active in international legal practice as tribunal assistant for several investor-State arbitration panels and cooperates in the drafting of memorials and expert opinions in international dispute settlement. She completed her doctoral thesis at Cambridge University as W.M. Tapp scholar, Hon. European Trust fellow and Cambridge European Society Fellow, 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”. Previously, she obtained the Cand.Jur./Lic.Jur. degree (BA/MA equiv.) magna cum laude at Ghent University and the LL.M. degree with honours (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar) at Columbia University (BAEF and Fulbright Fellow). She is a member of the ILA Committees on Islam and international law; State insolvency; and biotechnology. Freya Baetens has also worked as a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and is an editor of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law.
