Professor Anthea Roberts
BA (ANU), LLB (1st Class Honours and University Medal), LLM (NYU)
RegNet School of Regulation and Global Governance
ANU College of Asia and 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, Stephan, P, Verdier, 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 Anthea Roberts, Paul B. Stephan, Pierre- Hugues Verdier, Mila 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 Anthea Roberts, Paul B. Stephan, Pierre- Hugues Verdier, Mila 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, pp. 187-190.
- Roberts, A 2018, 'Investment Treaties: The Reform Matrix', AJIL Unbound, vol. 112, pp. 191-196.
- 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, 'Incremental, systemic, and paradigmatic reform of investor-state arbitration', American Journal of International Law, vol. 112, no. 3, pp. 410-432pp.
- Roberts, A & Sivakumaran, S 2018, 'The Theory and Reality of the Doctrine of Sources', in Malcolm D. Evans (ed.), International Law, Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 89-118.
- 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.
- 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 2017, Is International Law International?, Oxford University Press, New York.
- Roberts, A & Braddock, R 2016, 'OCASSIONAL PAPER - Protecting public welfare regulation through joint treaty party control: a ChAFTA innovation'.
- 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, 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, 'OCASSIONAL 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.
