Freya Baetens
Biography
Freya Baetens is Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Research Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub (OxHRH), GIC+ Project Director at Regent's Park College and Senior Associate at Pembroke College. She is also affiliated with the LEVEL Project (Faculty of Law, Oslo University) and the Europa Institute (Faculty of Law, Leiden University). She has been a visiting professor at the KU Leuven (Belgium), Max Planck Institute for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law (Luxembourg), Université Paris Nanterre (France), National University Singapore (Singapore), Sydney Law School (Australia), Xi’An Jiaotong Law School (China), FHR Lim A Po Institute (Suriname) and the World Trade Institute, Bern University (Switzerland). In 2024, she was awarded the inter-university Francqui Chair (Belgium). She currently serves as the Vice-President and Treasurer of the European Society of International Law (ESIL).
As a Member of the Brussels Bar, she regularly acts as counsel or expert before international tribunals (including inter-State and investor-State arbitration) and courts such as the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the African Court on Human and People's Rights, the World Trade Organisation and the European Court of Justice. She is listed on the EU Roster of Arbitrators and Trade & Sustainable Development (TSD) experts, the Panel of Arbitrators and Conciliators of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the South China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration) and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC).
She undertook her doctoral research at the University of Cambridge (Gonville and Caius College), after obtaining LLB and LLM (equiv.) degrees from the University of Ghent (Belgium) and an LLM degree from the University of Columbia (USA). At Oxford, she received an MA in Law (by Resolution) and a DPhil in Law (by Incorporation).