Professor Freya Baetens is an EU-qualified barrister (Member of the Brussels Bar) and Special Counsel at Fietta LLP. Her practice focuses on contentious and advisory elements of public international law (PIL), including inter-state litigation as well as investor-State arbitration. She has represented and advised international and regional organisations (including EU Commission and Parliament; multilateral development banks), state and local governments, and private clients (corporations, NGOs and individuals) in negotiations and before domestic, EU and international courts and tribunals.
She is also a Full Professor of Public International Law, Research Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub and GIC+ Project Director at the University of Oxford and holds the Chair in EU External Economic Law within the Europa Institute at the University of Leiden.
Her work has related to matters including but not limited to interaction between EU and international law, law of treaties, responsibility of States and international organisations, privileges and immunities, human rights, investment law, territorial and maritime boundaries, law of the sea, WTO law, natural resources law, sustainable development.
She holds a Cand. Jur./ Lic.Jur. (LL.B./LL.M. equivalent) from the University of Ghent, an LL.M. from the University of Columbia, a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Cambridge, and an M.A. in Law (by Resolution) and a D.Phil. in Law (by Incorporation) from the University of Oxford.
Freya’s full curriculum vitae is available here.