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Profile
Charalampos is a senior research fellow at the Centre for International Law (CIL), National University of Singapore, and an associate editor of the Asian Journal of International Law (AsianJIL). His areas of research focus include international investment law, international adjudication, treaty interpretation, and legal theory. In the past, Charalampos has been a Visiting Research Consultant at CIL and a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School. He has also worked as a legal consultant at UNCTAD (Investment Agreements Section), and as a trainee in the cabinet of the European Commissioner for maritime affairs and fisheries.
Charalampos holds a Ph.D in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva), an LL.M from University College London, and an LL.B from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is a qualified lawyer, admitted to the bar in Athens, Greece.
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Selected Publications
- “Paradigms of Justice and the Limits of ISDS Reform”, 16(1) (2025) Journal of International Dispute Settlement (advance access)
- “Indicators of Coherence and the Interpretation of Customary International Law” in M. Fortuna, K. Gorobets, P. Merkouris, A. Føllesdal, G. Ulfstein, and P. Westerman (eds), Customary International Law and Its Interpretation by International Courts: Theories, Methods and Interactions (Cambridge University Press, 2024) 299–325
- “Adapting Multilateral ISDS Reform to Regional Needs: A Proposal for a Chambers Mechanism” (with N.J. Calamita), 57(2) (2024) Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 581–630
- Manifestations of Coherence and Investor-State Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
- ASEAN and the Reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Global Challenges and Regional Options (with N. Jansen Calamita) (Edward Elgar, 2022)
- “History as Interpretative Context in the Evolutionary Interpretation of FET in International Investment Law” (with Malvika Monga), in G. Abi-Saab, K. Keith, G. Marceau, and C. Marquet (eds), Evolutionary Interpretation and International Law (Hart Publishing, 2019) 297–309
- “The Right to Regulate in International Investment Law and the Law of State Responsibility: A Hohfeldian Approach”, in P. Pazartzis and P. Merkouris (eds), Permutations of Responsibility in International Law (Brill/Nijhoff, 2019) 148–184
- “Reconceptualizing ‘Failure to State Reasons’ as a Ground for Annulment under Article 52(1)(e) of the ICSID Convention”, 8(1) (2017) Journal of International Dispute Settlement 125–154
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Conference Presentations
- “The Reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement and ASEAN: Do Multilateral Solutions Address Regional Needs?”, CIL-SIAC Academic-Practitioner Colloquium, 2 March 2022 (presentation with N. Jansen Calamita)
- Chair, Panel on “ASEAN and the Global Economy – Disputes”, ASEAN Law Academy Conference 2022, Centre for International Law (NUS), 28 January 2022
- “Coherence and (Practical) Legal Reasoning: Goal, Method, or Both?”, 2nd TRICI-Law Conference “Interpretation of Customary International Law: Methods, Interpretative Choices and the Role of Coherence”, 2-3 December 2021, University of Groningen & PluriCourts
- “The Right to Regulate in International Investment Law”, ELSA Athens Summer School on International Investment Law 2021, 23-28 August 2021, Athens, Greece
- “Coherence, Reflective Thinking, and Investment Arbitration”, Postgraduate and Early Professionals/Academics (PEPA) Network of the Society of International Economic Law, 17-19 May 2020, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- “Reparations in International Law: A Theoretical Framework”, ESIL-sponsored Workshop “Rethinking Reparations in International Law”, 16-17 November 2018, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge
- “Manifestations of Host States’ Right to Regulate in International Investment Law”, ELSA Athens Summer School on International Investment Law 2018, 18-25 August 2018, Athens, Greece
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Others
- “The 2022 Amendments to the ICSID Arbitration Rules: Incremental Improvements Against the Backdrop of ISDS Reform”, CIL Blog (6 April 2022)
- “Investor-State Arbitration Meets Mediation: The View from UNCITRAL”, Kluwer Arbitration Blog (1 October 2020)
- “United States – Final Anti-Dumping Measures on Stainless Steel From Mexico, Appellate Body Report, WT/DS344/AB/R”, Oxford Reports on International Law, Case Note ITLD048 (WTOAB2008)
- “In the Matter of Anti-Dumping Investigation of the Government of Mexico Into Imports of Flat Coated Steel Products from the United States, MEX-94-1904-01, Opinion and Order of the Panel”, Oxford Reports on International Law, Case Note ITLD083 (NAFTA1996)
