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Law of Treaties and State Responsibility

Select cases

  • Counsel to the Democratic Republic of Congo before the International Court of Justice, Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (DRC v. Uganda) (reparations phase)
  • Expert witness on the effects of treaties towards third parties in cases T-279/19 and T-344/19 before the General Court of the European Union
  • Counsel to the Kingdom of Belgium in Mukeshimana a.o. v. Belgian State before the Belgian courts: liability regarding the Rwanda genocide, attribution of alleged omissions of the Belgian blue helmets
  • Counsel for the Kingdom of Belgium in the PCA Iron Rhine Arbitration (Kingdom of Belgium v. Kingdom of the Netherlands) regarding the interpretation of Belgium’s right of transit under a 1839 treaty governing issues regarding the separation of Belgium from the Netherlands in the light of modern environmental law
  • Counsel to the Kingdom of Belgium in ICSID arbitration case Ping An Life Insurance Company, Limited and Ping An Insurance (Group) Company, Limited v. Belgium: temporal and substantive scope of application of successive investment treaties

Select conferences and publications

  • “Article 8”, in : The Vienna Conventions on the Law of Treaties – A Commentary, O. Corten, P. Klein, V. Koutroulis, A. Lagerwall, eds., Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2023 (forthcoming) (with T. Leidgens and M. Duch Giménez)
  • “Article 63”, The Vienna Conventions on the Law of Treaties – A Commentary, O. Corten, P. Klein, V. Koutroulis, A. Lagerwall, eds., Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2023 (forthcoming)
  • “The Rise of the Sunset Clause”, Paris Arbitration Week, conference organized by Audit Duprey Fekl, 29 March 2023
  • “Promise”, in: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, 2007 (with Eric Suy)