C-EENRG Founder and former Director
C-EENRG Area Leader: Environmental Law and Governance
Harold Samuel Professor of Law and Environmental Policy
Department of Land Economy
University of Cambridge
Biography:
Professor Jorge E. Viñuales – Centre Fellow
Professor Jorge E. Viñuales holds the Harold Samuel Chair of Law and
Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge and is the founder
and former Director of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and
Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG). He is also the Chairman of the
Compliance Committee of the UN-ECE/WHO-Europe Protocol on Water and
Health, a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the Shanghai
International Arbitration Centre and the Director-General of the Latin
American Society of International Law. Prior to joining Cambridge, he
was the Pictet Chair of International Environmental Law at the Graduate
Institute, Geneva, where he keeps a limited affiliation as Adjunct
Professor of Public International Law.
He has published widely in his speciality areas, most recently his books
The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development. A Commentary (Oxford
University Press, 2015), International Environmental Law (Cambridge
University Press, 2015, second edition 2018, with P.-M. Dupuy), The
Foundations of International Investment Law (Oxford University Press,
2014, co-edited with Z. Douglas and J. Pauwelyn), Foreign Investment and
the Environment in International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2012,
reprint 2015), Environmental and Energy Law: International, European and
Comparative Dimensions (Edward Elgar, 3 volumes, 2017, co-edited with E.
Lees) and Diplomatic and Judicial Means of Dispute Settlement (Martinus
Nijhoff, 2012, co-edited with L. Boisson de Chazournes and M. G. Kohen).
His ongoing work includes a new edition of Antonio Cassese's textbook on
International Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2019, with P.
Gaeta and S. Zappala), The Oxford Handbook on Comparative Environmental
Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2018, co-edited with Emma
Lees), a book-length study on The International Law of Energy (on
contract with Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2019), and a
series of interdisciplinary papers on complexity economics, integrated
modelling and sustainability policy in co-authorship with colleagues
from C-EENRG, Radboud University, Cambridge Econometrics and the Open
University.
Jorge has wide experience as a practitioner, both in an advisory and a
litigation context. He was associate, counsel and of counsel with two
major law firms specialised in international law for a decade. In
addition to his work for the UNECE/WHO, he has served as arbitrator,
counsel, expert and, earlier in his career, as secretary of arbitration
tribunals in inter-State, investment and commercial disputes. He
regularly advises governments, companies, international organisations or
major NGOs on different matters of environmental law, investment law,
human rights, maritime delimitation and public international law at
large.
Jorge was educated in France (Doctorat - Sciences Po, Paris), the United
States (LL.M. - Harvard Law School), Switzerland (Licence and Diplôme
d’études approfondies in international relations - HEI; liz jur –
Universität Freiburg; Licence and Diplôme d’études approfondies in
political science – Université de Genève), and Argentina (Abogado –
UNICEN).
His native language is Spanish and he is fluent in English, French and
Italian.
For more information see: Professor Jorge Viñuales