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Profile
Dr Martins Paparinskis is Reader (Associate Professor) in Public International Law at University College London, which he joined in 2013. He is a generalist public international lawyer with a variety of specialist interests. Martins has published on foundational topics of public international law, such as sources of international law, law of treaties, State responsibility, and international dispute settlement, as well as on topics in the subfields of international investment law, international human rights law, and international environmental law. Martins has published with the American Journal of International Law, the British Year Book of International Law, the European Journal of International Law, and the Modern Law Review, and his monograph with Oxford Monograph Series in International Law. His work is regularly and globally cited on issues of international law by and before domestic courts and international courts and tribunals.
Martins\’ research expertise is reflected in his professional appointments. He is a member designate of the United Nations International Law Commission, elected upon the joint nomination of Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania for the 2023-27 quinquennium. Martins is a member of the Council of Independent Experts in International and European Law with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia, and was the lead drafter of its opinion that formed the basis for Latvia\’s 2019 declaration recognizing the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice as compulsory. In the field of international dispute settlement, he is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and a conciliator of the OSCE Court of Conciliation and Arbitration. In the field of investment law, Martins is a member of the ICSID Panels of Arbitrators and of Conciliators and of the Beijing Arbitration Commission / Beijing International Arbitration Center\’s Panel of Arbitrators for International Investment Arbitration. In the field of human rights law, he is a member of the management board the EU Fundamental Rights Agency. In the field of environmental law, Martins is a member of the implementation committee of the UNECE Water Convention.
Martins is the Book Review Editor of the Journal of World Investment and Trade, a co-editor of Current Legal Problems, and a member of the Academic Review Board of the Cambridge Journal of International Law, the Editorial Board of the Journal of the University of Latvia. Law, the Advisory Board of the UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, the Editorial Advisory Board of Investment Claims, and UCL Press executive group (editorial board). He is a member of the Academic Forum on ISDS, and the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration.
