Prof Anthea Roberts
BA (ANU), LLB (1st Class Honours and University Medal), LLM (NYU)
RegNet School of Regulation and Global Governance
College of Asia & the Pacific
Areas of expertise
- International Law (Excl. International Trade Law) 180116
- International Trade Law 180117
- Litigation, Adjudication And Dispute Resolution 180123
- Human Rights Law 180114
- Comparative Law 180106
Publications
- Roberts, A & Lamp, N 2020, Is the Virus Killing Globalization? There's No One Answer, pp. online.
- Roberts, A 2020, How Globalization Came to the Brink of Collapse, pp. online.
- Roberts, A & St John, T 2020, UNCITRAL and ISDS Reform: Plausible Folk Theories, pp. online.
- Roberts, A & St John, T 2020, UNCITRAL and ISDS Reforms: What Makes Something Fly?, pp. online.
- Roberts, A & St John, T 2019, UNCITRAL and ISDS Reforms: Agenda-Widening and Paradigm-Shifting, pp. online.
- Roberts, A & St John, T 2019, UNCITRAL and ISDS Reform: China's Proposal, pp. online.
- Roberts, A, Choer Moraes, H & Ferguson, V 2019, 'Toward a Geoeconomic Order in International Trade and Investment', Journal of International Economic Law, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 655-676.
- Roberts, A & St John, T 2019, UNCITRAL and ISDS Reform: In Sickness and In Health, pp. online.
- Roberts, A, Roberts, A, St. John, T et al 2019, 'UNCITRAL and ISDS Reforms: The Divided West and the Battle by and for the Rest'.
- Roberts, A, Roberts, A, St. John, T et al 2019, 'UNCITRAL and ISDS Reforms: Battles over Naming and Framing'.
- Roberts, A, Roberts, A, Choer Moraes, H et al 2019, 'The US-China Trade War is a Competition for Technological Leadership'.
- Langford, M, Langford, M, Roberts, A et al 2019, 'UNCITRAL and ISDS Reforms: Hastening slowly'.
- Roberts, A, Roberts, A, Choer Moraes, H et al 2019, 'The US-China Trade War is a Competition for Technological Leadership'.
- Cleveland, S, Cleveland, S, Stephan, P et al. 2018, 'Restatement of The Law Fourth, The Foreign Relations Law of the United States'.
- Roberts, A, Stephan, P, Stephan, P et al, eds, 2018, Comparative International Law, Oxford University Press, New York.
- Roberts, A, Stephan, P, Verdier, P et al 2018, 'Conceptualizing Comparative International Law', in A Roberts, P B Stephan, P-H Verdier & M Versteeg (ed.), Comparative International Law, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 3-35.
- Roberts, A 2018, 'Crimea and the South China Sea: Connections and Disconnects Among Chinese, Russian and Western International Lawyers', in A Roberts, P B Stephan, P-H Verdier & M Versteeg (ed.), Comparative International Law, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 111-141.
- Cai, C & Roberts, A 2018, 'Introduction to the Symposium on the BRICS Approach to the Investment Treaty System', AJIL Unbound, vol. 112, no. 191, pp. 187-190.
- Roberts, A 2018, 'Investment Treaties: The Reform Matrix', AJIL Unbound, vol. 112, pp. 191-196pp.
- Roberts, A & Bouraoui, Z 2018, 'UNCITRAL and ISDS Reforms: Concerns about Costs, Transparency, Third Party Funding and Counterclaims'.
- Roberts, A & Bouraoui, Z 2018, 'UNCITRAL and ISDS Reforms: Concerns about Arbitral Appointments, Incentives and Legitimacy'.
- Roberts, A & Bouraoui, Z 2018, 'UNCITRAL and ISDS Reforms: Concerns about Consistency, Predictability and Correctness'.
- Roberts, A & Bouraoui, Z 2018, 'UNCITRAL and ISDS Reforms: What are States' Concerns?'.
- Roberts, A 2018, 'Cross-Border Student Flows and the Construction of International Law as a Transnational Legal Field', UC Irvine Journal of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 1-38.
- Roberts, A & Sivakumaran, S 2018, 'The theory and reality of the sources of international law', in Malcolm D. Evans (ed.), International Law, Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 89-118.
- Roberts, A 2017, Is International Law International?, Oxford University Press, New York.
- Roberts, A 2018, 'Incremental, Systemic, And Paradigmatic Reform Of Investor-State Arbitration', American Journal of International Law, vol. 112, no. 3, pp. 410-432.
- Roberts, A 2016, 'FORUM - Investment treaty law and arbitration: Common controversies'.
- Roberts, A 2016, 'FORUM - An Introduction to Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration'.
- Roberts, A & Braddock, R 2016, 'OCCASIONAL PAPER - Protecting public welfare regulation through joint treaty party control: a ChAFTA innovation'.
- Roberts, A, Paul B, S, Verdier, P et al. 2015, 'Comparative international law: Framing the field', American Journal of International Law, vol. 109, no. 3, pp. 467-474.
- Roberts, A 2015, 'Triangular treaties: The extent and limits of investment treaty rights', Harvard International Law Journal, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 353-417.
- Roberts, A & Trahanas, C 2014, 'JUDICIAL REVIEW OF INVESTMENT TREATY AWARDS: BG GROUP V. ARGENTINA', American Journal of International Law, vol. 108, no. 4, pp. 750-763.
- Roberts, A 2014, 'State-to-State Investment Treaty Arbitration: A Hybrid Theory of Interdependent Rights and Shared Interpretive Authority', Harvard International Law Journal, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 1-70.
- Roberts, A 2014, 'OCCASIONAL PAPER - Recalibrating interpretive authority'.
- Roberts, A 2013, 'Subsequent Agreements and Practice: The Battle over Interpretative Power', in Georg Nolte (ed.), Treaties and Subsequent Practice, Oxford University Press, Great Britain, pp. 95-102.
- Roberts, A 2013, 'Divergence Between Investment And Commercial Arbitration', Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law 2012, American Society of International Law, New York, United States, pp. 297-300.
- Roberts, A 2013, 'Clash of paradigms: Actors and analogies shaping the investment treaty system', American Journal of International Law, vol. 107, no. 1, pp. 45-94.
- Roberts, A 2012, 'The Next Battleground: Standards of Review in Investment Treaty Arbitration', 50th International Council for Commercial Arbitration, ed. Albert Jan van den Berg, Kluwer Law International, Biggleswade, pp. 170-180.
- Roberts, A & Sivakumaran, S 2012, 'Lawmaking by Nonstate Actors: Engaging Armed Groups in the Creation of International Humanitarian Law', Yale Journal of International Law, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 107-152.
- Roberts, A 2011, 'Comparative international law? The role of national courts in creating and enforcing international law', International and Comparative Law Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 57-92.
- Roberts, A 2010, 'Power and persuasion in investment treaty interpretation: The dual role of states', American Journal of International Law, vol. 104, no. 2, pp. 179-225.
- Roberts, A 2010, 'Who Killed Article 38(1)(b)? A Reply to Bradley and Gulati', Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 173-190.
- Roberts, A 2008, 'Legality vs Legitimacy: Can Uses of Force be Illegal but Justified?', in Philip Alston and Euan Macdonald (ed.), Human Rights, Intervention, and the Use of Force, Oxford University Press, Great Britain, pp. 179-213.
- Donald Francis, D & Roberts, A 2006, 'The emerging recognition of universal civil jurisdiction', American Journal of International Law, vol. 100, no. 1, pp. 142-163.
- Roberts, A 2005, 'The Agent Orange Case: Vietnam Association For Victims Of Agent Orange/Dioxin V. Dow Chemical Co.', Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law Proceedings 2005, American Society of International Law, http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/asilp99&collection=journals&id=1, pp. 380-385.
- Roberts, A 2004, 'Righting Wrongs or Wronging Rights? The United States and Human Rights Post-September 11', European Journal of International Law, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 721-749.
- Roberts, A 2002, 'Gender and Refugee Law', Australian Year Book of International Law, vol. 22, pp. 159-200.
- Roberts, A 2001, 'Traditional and Modern Approaches to Customary International Law: A Reconciliation', American Journal of International Law, vol. 95, no. 4, pp. 757-791.
