Contributing Authors
 | Dr. Stephan Schill Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law |
Stephan Schill is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. Prior to that he served as the International Arbitration Law Clerk to The Honorable Charles N. Brower of 20 Essex Street Chambers, London and as a law clerk to Judge Abdul G. Koroma at the International Court of Justice. He has experience in international commercial and investor-State arbitrations under various arbitral rules, including ICSID, NAFTA, ICC, SCC, LCIA and UNCITRAL Rules, as well as in inter-State dispute settlement. He is admitted as an attorney-at-law to the bars in Germany and New York.
Stephan has authored numerous articles, and regularly speaks at conferences, on international investment law and arbitration. He holds a Ph.D./Dr. iur. from Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main that he received for his dissertation on "The Multilateralization of International Investment Law" (Cambridge University Press 2009). His thesis was also awarded an Otto Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society. Stephan holds further degrees in law and political science from the United States, Germany and France, among them an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from NYU and a Diplôme Européen de l'Histoire des Idées et des Doctrines Politiques from Université Jean-Moulin Lyon III. His research focuses on general international law including the law of state responsibility and international dispute settlement, international investment law and arbitration, as well as European Union law and the European Convention on Human Rights. He is fluent in German, English, French and Spanish.
Articles written by this author
- Damages in International Investment Law. S. Ripinsky, K. Williams (Book review)
- Enabling Private Ordering - Function, Scope and Effect of Umbrella Clauses in International Investment Treaties
- Arbitration Risk and Effective Compliance Cost-Shifting in Investment Treaty Arbitration
- Tearing Down the Great Wall: The New Generation Investment Treaties of the People's Republic of China
- International Investment Law and the Host State's Power to Handle Economic Crises - Comment on the ICSID Decision in LG&E v. Argentina
- Investment Treaty Law - Current Issues Volume 1, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London 2006 - Ortino/Sheppard/Warner (eds.) - a book review
- Fair and Equitable Treatment under Investment Treaties as an Embodiment of the Rule of Law
- From Calvo to CMS: Burying an International Law Legacy? Argentina's Currency Reform in the Face of Investment Protection: The ICSID Case CMS v. Argentina
- Revisiting a Landmark: Indirect Expropriation and Fair and Equitable Treatment in the ICSID Case Tecmed
