Team

August Reinisch holds Masters degrees in philosophy (1990) and in law (1988) as well as a doctorate in law (1991) from the University of Vienna and an LL.M. (1989) from NYU Law School. He is admitted to the Bar of New York and Connecticut (since 1990). Since 1998 he has been Professor of International and European Law at the University of Vienna. From 2004 to 2006 he was Dean for International Relations of the University’s Law School.

Since 2001 he serves as US-government appointed arbitrator on the In Rem Restitution Panel according to the Austrian General Settlement Fund Law 2001. Currently, he is also president of an UNCITRAL investment arbitration.

He is a regular visiting fellow at the University of New South Wales, Sydney (1999, 2000, 2002, 2005 and 2007) as well as visiting professor at Bocconi University, Milan (2003 and 2004). He also fulfils teaching assignments at the Austrian Diplomatic Academy in Vienna. Since 1999 he has been a professorial lecturer at the Bologna Center of SAIS/JHU.

His professional experience includes: Expert adviser in Austrian and foreign courts litigation as well as international arbitration; Member of the ILA Study Group on Accountability of International Organisations; Member of the ILA Committee on International Law of Foreign Investment; Member of the ILA Committee on International Law of Foreign Investment.

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Christina Knahr is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Department for European, International and Comparative Law at the University of Vienna School of Law. She holds Master’s degrees in Law from the University of Vienna (Mag.iur. 1999) and in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (MPA 2003) as well as a Doctorate in Law from the University of Vienna (Dr. iur. 2006). She wrote her Doctoral Thesis on “Participation of Non-State Actors in the Dispute Settlement System of the WTO: Benefit or Burden?�? and graduated with honors in June 2006.

In March 2008 she was a Visiting Scholar at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University and she spent the 2003-2004 Academic Year as a Visiting Researcher at the European Law Research Center at Harvard Law School. From 2000-2001 she was Assistant to Austrian MEP Dr. Marilies Flemming in the European Parliament in Brussels.

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