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Profile
NGUYEN Thanh Trung holds a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Luxembourg under the supervision of Prof. Hélène Ruiz Fabri. His thesis focuses on analyzing judicial activism in international trade and EU law from a comparative perspective. He received his LLM in International Legal Studies from Georgetown University under the Fulbright Student Scholarship.
Before joining the CIL, he was a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law and Associate Editor of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (2019-2022). Previously, he was a legal officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Viet Nam, working in the law of the sea and ocean policy. Trung also worked as a short-term consultant for the World Bank (2018-2019) and interned at the Rules Division of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Currently, Trung is interested in the works of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), especially in the field of maritime security and safety. His other research interests include the law of the sea, WTO law, EU law and international dispute settlement.
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Selected Publications
- Judicial Activism in the WTO Appellate Body: A Comparative Analysis with the European Court of Justice (upcoming), Nomos Verlag.
- The Legislative and Public Policy Responses of Viet Nam to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Treading the New Waves (Chapter 11) in Nadav Morag (eds.) Impacts of the Pandemic: International Legislative and Public Health Policy Responses (to be published by Wiley Publisher in 2022) (co-authored with Duong NGUYEN): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119812203
- Visa and Asylum Provisions in Preferential Trade Agreements (2021) in World Bank’s Handbook of Deep Trade Agreements (co-authored with Professor Joost Pauwelyn and Khalid Kamal): https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/cd1ad499-f43e-5f52-aea7-34534baa5f1
- Judicial self-restraint in the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (July 2021).
- The World Trade Organization Fisheries Subsidies Agreement: A Critical Assessment on the Impacts to Developing Fishing Nations and the Way Forward, CIL Dialogue, (17 January 2023).
- The Procedural Inconsistency of the Envisaged EU Enforcement Regulation with the EU’s WTO Obligations, OpinioJuris, (30/10/2020).
- Viet Nam: When Non-Emergency Measures Equal Emergency Measures, VerfBlog, (10/5/2020).
