Ursula Kriebaum
Ursula Kriebaum
Professor of International Law at the Section of International Law and International Relations of the University of Vienna
In addition to teaching regularly in the LL.M International Law program, as well as the EU and International Business Law program at the University of Vienna, Ursula Kriebaum has also been lecturing regularly at the Sorbonne in Paris, as well as at the University of Vienna’s Summer School in Strobl.
Ursula Kriebaum is renowned for her positions as Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (since September 2014), Member of the Panel of Conciliators maintained by the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in Washington DC/USA (since 2020), Member of the Arbitration Panel under the Agreement on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (since 2021), Alternate Member of the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration within the OSCE (since August 2013), and Member of the Arbitration Panel for the Protocol on Cultural Cooperation to the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and its Member States and the Republic of Korea.
Research focus
- International Investment Law (expropriation, fair and equitable treatment and other standards of investment protection)
- International Protection of Human Rights
- Expropriation in International Law
- Arbitration (Investment Arbitration, Business and Human Rights Arbitration)
- Restitution of Property arianised during the Nazi-Regime
- Implementation of International Human Rights Obligations in National Domestic Legal orders
Major Recent Publications
Together with A. Kumin, F. Weiss, Recht der europäischen Union (2015), 378 pp.
State Practice Regarding State Immunities - La pratique des Etats concernant les Immunités des Etats, Gerhard Hafner, Marcelo G. Kohen and Susan Breau (eds.), Nijhoff Publishers (2006) 1043 pp.
Environmental Issues in the Work of the ILC (together with Holly. L. Pearson, Yearbook of International and Environmental Law, 11 (2000 published in 2001), pp. 3-51.
Pros and Cons Ensuing from Fragmentation of International Law, 4 Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 25 (2004), pp. 849-868.
Accountability of International Organizations. A Critical View, in: R. St. John Macdonald and D. M. Johnston (eds.), Towards World Constitutionalism, Issues in the Legal Ordering of the World Community, Leiden (2005) pp. 585-630.
Remarques sur l’affaire Behrami et Saramati (Cour européenne des droits de l’homme): le statut juridique de la KFOR et de ses actes, 60 Arès 109-120 (2008)
Historical Background to the Convention, in: Roger O’Keefe, Christian Tams (ed.s), The United Nations Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property (2013). 1 – 12.
The Emancipation of the Individual from the State under International Law, in: Hague Academy of International Law, Receuil des cours, vol. 358, 267 - 435