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Markus Gehring
Visiting Professor
Markus Gehring
Visiting Professor
Educational Qualifications
JSD Doctoral Degree
Doctoral Degree
Entity
College of Law
Biography
Markus Gehring, J.S.D. (Yale), MA (Cantab), LLM (Yale), Dr iur (Hamburg), is the Arthur Watts Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law at the British Institute for International and Comparative Law. He is currently on leave from his tenured position at the Cambridge University Faculty of Law. He is also a Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Hughes Hall and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. He has been a Visiting Professor in several law faculties around the world and held a Jean Monnet Research Chair ad personam in Sustainable Development Law at the University of Ottawa Law Faculty in Canada. He is also an affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Land Economy and a Founding Fellow of the Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance (C-EENRG). He holds a J.S.D. and LL.M from the Yale Law School and a Dr iur from the University of Hamburg and is a member of the Frankfurt/Main and Ontario Bars and an associate member of Landmark Chambers in London, UK. He serves as Lead Counsel for Sustainable Trade, Investment and Finance Law with the Centre of International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), based at McGill University.
JSD Doctoral Degree
(JSD Thesis: Europe’s Second Constitution) Yale Law School, New Haven, USA
Oct 2015
Doctoral Degree
magna cum laude (PhD Thesis: Sustainability through Process in World Trade) University of Hamburg, Faculty of Law, Hamburg, Germany
June 2002
Master of Arts
University of Cambridge, U.K
Nov 2008
LLM Degree (Walter W. Oberreit Memorial Fellow)
Research Assistant, European Law and Comparative Constitutional Law Yale Law School, New Haven, USA
June 2003
Professional Law / Bar Exam
Assesor jur.; Referendariat Highest Court of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Nov 2004
Undergraduate Law / State Exam
Highest Court of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
May 1999
- Sustainable Development in European and International Law - see http://www.amazon.com/lm/R1ZD2PICUZLEGP/ref=cm_sw_em_r_o_lm_Zh3cnb1CEN25G for book suggestions
- European External Relations Law and Policy
- International Trade, Investment and Finance Law and Policy
- European Environmental Law
- Twitter: @mwgehring
Transparency in International Investment Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Responsibility, fraternity and sustainability in law : in memory of the honourable Charles Doherty Gonthier (Markham, Ont.: LexisNexis, 2012)
Sustainable Development in World Investment Law (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, Nov 2010)
World Trade Law in Practice (London: Globe Business Publishing, 2006), preface by John H. Jackson
Sustainable Development in World Trade Law (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2005)
with MC Cordonier Segger in C Tams and S Schill (eds.), Investment and Development (London: Edward Elgar 2015)
International Investment Law and Public International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2013)
with A Kent in A de Mestral & C Leveque (eds.), Investment Law and Public Policy (Routledge, 2012), p. 284pp
in I L Backer, O K Fauchald & C Voigt (eds.), Liber Amicorum Hans Christian Bugge (Oslo: Universitstforlaget, 2012)
with M C Cordonier Segger & J Hepburn in R Rayfuse & S Scott, International Law in the Era of Climate Change (Edward Elgar, 2012) pp. 84-117
with M C Cordonier Segger in M C Cordonier Segger, F Perron-Welch & C Frison, Legal Aspects of Implementing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2013)
in A Narlikar, Breaking the Deadlock (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2010)