Charalampos 
GIANNAKOPOULOS

 
Adjunct Assistant Professor

Charalampos Giannakopoulos is a Senior Research Fellow (Investment Law & Policy) at the Centre for International Law (CIL), National University of Singapore, an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law, and an Associate Editor of the Asian Journal of International Law (AsianJIL).  In the past, Charalampos has been a Visiting Research Consultant at CIL and a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School. He has also worked as a legal consultant at UNCTAD (Investment Agreements Section), and as a trainee in the cabinet of the European Commissioner for maritime affairs and fisheries and in the legal service (public international law section) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece.

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Contact

cilcg@nus.edu.sg
6601 1445

Education

PhD (Graduate Institute, Geneva); LLM (University College London); LLB (University of Athens); Admitted to the Bar (Athens)

Current Courses

International Economic Law Clinic

Charalampos Giannakopoulos is a Senior Research Fellow (Investment Law & Policy) at the Centre for International Law (CIL), National University of Singapore, an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law, and an Associate Editor of the Asian Journal of International Law (AsianJIL). His areas of research focus include public international law, international investment law, international adjudication, treaty interpretation, legal reasoning and legal theory. In the past, Charalampos has been a Visiting Research Consultant at CIL and a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Michigan Law School. He has also worked as a legal consultant at UNCTAD (Investment Agreements Section), and as a trainee in the cabinet of the European Commissioner for maritime affairs and fisheries and in the legal service (public international law section) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece.

Charalampos holds a PhD in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva), an LLM in Public International Law from University College London, and an LLB from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is a qualified lawyer, admitted to the bar in Athens, Greece.

Books

Charalampos Giannakopoulos, Manifestations of Coherence and Investor-State Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2022)

N. Jansen Calamita and Charalampos Giannakopoulos, ASEAN and the Reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Global Challenges and Regional Options (Edward Elgar, 2022)

Journal Articles

N. Jansen Calamita and Charalampos Giannakopoulos, ‘Designing Multilateral Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform to Meet Regional Needs: The Case of ASEAN’, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (forthcoming 2024)

Charalampos Giannakopoulos, ‘Reconceptualizing “Failure to State Reasons” as a Ground for Annulment under Article 52(1)(e) of the ICSID Convention’ (2017) 8(1) Journal of International Dispute Settlement 125–154

Book Chapters

Charalampos Giannakopoulos and Malvika Monga, ‘History as Interpretative Context in the Evolutionary Interpretation of Fair and Equitable Treatment in International Investment Law’, in G. Abi-Saab, K. Keith, G. Marceau, and C. Marquet (eds), Evolutionary Interpretation and International Law (Hart Publishing, 2019) 297–309


  • Public International Law
  • International Investment Law and Policy
  • International Dispute Settlement
  • Interpretation
  • Legal Theory
  • Epistemology and Legal Reasoning
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