Mr Jansen Calamita
Head, International Economic Law. Research Associate Professor (CIL)
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Profile
N Jansen Calamita is Head of International Economic Law, Centre for International Law, and Research Associate Professor (CIL), Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. He was previously Director of the Investment Treaty Forum at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and has held posts at the University of Birmingham and the University of Oxford.
Prior to entering academics, Professor Calamita served in the Office of the Legal Adviser in the US Department of State (International Claims and Investment Disputes Division) and as a member of the UNCITRAL Secretariat. He began his career in private practice in New York. He holds a Juris Doctor magna cum laude (Boston) and a Bachelor of Civil Law (Oxford). He is co-editor (with L Malintoppi) of International Litigation in Practice (Brill) and a member of the editorial board of the Yearbook of International Law and Policy (Oxford University Press). He continues to advise governments on matters relating to international investment and dispute resolution.
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Research Interests
- International Investment Law
- Public International Law
- Rule of Law
- International Dispute Settlement
- International Development
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Selected Publications
- ‘Appellate Review and Investor-State Arbitration: The Compatibility of Appellate Mechanisms with Existing Instruments of the Investment Treaty Regime’ (forthcoming, ICSID Review 2016).
- ‘Are Investments in Water Different? Sectoral Economics, Investment Treaty Architecture, and the Role of Institutions and Governance’ in J Chaisse (ed.), Governance of the Global Sanitation and Water Services Market (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press 2016).
- ‘Public-Private Arbitration in Iraq: An as Yet Distant Horizon’ in S Schill (ed), The Comparative Constitutional Foundations of Private-Public Arbitration (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press 2016).
- ‘The Changing Landscape of Transparency in Investor-State Arbitration: The UNCITRAL Transparency Rules and Mauritius Convention,’ 2016 Austrian Yearbook on International Arbitration 271-288.
- Risk and Return: Foreign Direct Investment and the Rule of Law (with J Hughes-Jennet & J Jowell) (British Institute of International and Comparative Law 2015), 1-100.
- ‘The Rule of Law, Investment Treaties, and Economic Growth: Mapping Normative and Empirical Questions’ in J Jowell et al (eds), The Importance of the Rule of Law in Promoting Development (Singapore Academy of Law, 2015).
- Editor (with M Sattorova), The Regionalization of Investment Treaty Arrangements: Developments and Implications (British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2015).
- ‘The Principle of Proportionality and Problem of Indeterminacy in Investment Treaties,’ 2014 Yearbook of International Investment Law and Policy 157-200.
- ‘International Commercial Arbitration in Iraq: Commercial Law Reform in the Face of Violence,’ 32 Journal of International Arbitration 37-64 (2014).
- ‘Dispute Settlement Transparency in Europe’s Evolving Investment Treaty Policy,’ 15 Journal of World Investment & Trade 645-678 (2014).
- ‘International Human Rights and the Interpretation of Investment Treaties – Constitutional Considerations’ in F Baetens (ed), The Interaction of International Investment Law with Other Fields of Public International Law 164-184 (Cambridge University Press 2013).
- Editor, International Investment Law and Its Intersections and the Future of ICSID (British Institute of International and Comparative Law 2013).
- ‘The Making of Europe’s International Investment Policy: Uncertain First Steps,’ 39 Legal Issues of Economic Integration 301-330 (2012).
- ‘Structuring Investment Treaties for Financial and Monetary Crises: Prudential Measures, Temporary Safeguards, Essential Security, and Dispute Resolution Mechanisms’ in Multilateral Liberalization through Bilateral Treaties? 27 (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford 2012).