[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”33″ alignment=””][vc_column_text]Dr. Ioannis Konstantinidis is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Qatar University, College of Law and Affiliate Member of the Center for Law and Development. His is the Secretary of the International Law Association (Qatari Branch). His Ph.D. thesis (Sorbonne Law School, Paris, France) focusing on the institutions established by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), constitutes the first comprehensive study assessing these institutions following the entry into force of UNCLOS.<\/p>\n
He was a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (University of Cambridge) and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He has taught international law and international dispute settlement, inter alia<\/em>, at the Prince Saud Al-Faisal Institute for Diplomatic Studies (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia), the International Foundation for the Law of the Sea (Germany), Kobe University (Japan) and the University of Athens (Greece).<\/p>\n Prior to joining Qatar University, Dr. Konstantinidis was the Head of Investment Treaty Arbitration and International Law at the Asian International Arbitration Center\/AIAC (formerly known as the KLRCA) \u2013 an independent international organization, established in 1978 under the auspices of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization.<\/p>\n Before joining the AIAC, Dr. Konstantinidis worked as an associate at Volterra Fietta – a leading public international law firm in London – where he advised and represented governments, international organizations and companies on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious public international law and related dispute resolution issues, including law of the sea and natural resources, land and maritime boundary issues, the protection of foreign investments under international investment agreements and treaty interpretation. Dr. Konstantinidis has advised in connection with disputes heard at the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, the European Court of Human Rights and at a multitude of ad hoc<\/em> and institutional arbitral fora<\/em> (including under UNCLOS, PCA and UNCITRAL Rules).<\/p>\n Before that, he worked at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS-Nippon Fellow) and the Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations \u2013 Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea.<\/p>\n Dr. Konstantinidis is a general public international law expert. He regularly acts for States, international organizations and private entities in contentious and advisory matters. He is currently involved as counsel in three cases before the International Court of Justice and in investor-State arbitrations. His research and practice focus on law of the sea and natural resources, land and maritime boundaries, deep seabed mining, \u00a0international organizations, international investment law, international litigation and arbitration, international environmental law and sustainable development, human rights, and international humanitarian law. Dr. Konstantinidis is listed as arbitrator on the Asian International Arbitration Centre (AIAC) and the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration panels of arbitrators. He has recently been nominated on the List of Arbitrators under Annex VII of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea by the Republic of Madagascar (the list is drawn up and kept by the Secretary-General of the United Nations).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row el_id=”Academic Positions”][vc_column width=”1\/2″ el_class=”Academic Positions”] College of Law - Qatar University, Doha, Qatar<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Facult\u00e9 de droit et science politique - Universit\u00e9 de Bordeaux (France)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Kobe University (Japan) - Global Master's Program - Law of the Sea<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Prince Saud Al Faisal Institute for Diplomatic Studies, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul> Advising and representing States, international organizations and private clients on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious international law and international dispute resolution issues.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t List of Arbitrators under Annex VII of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (nominated by the Republic of Madagascar). The list is drawn up and kept by the Secretary-General of the United Nations.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration <\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Asian International Arbitration Centre (formerly known as the KLRCA)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t Asian International Arbitration Centre (formerly known as the KLRCA), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul> Volterra Fietta \u2013 The Public International Law Firm, London, United Kingdom<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul> International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), Hamburg, Germany<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul> United Nations, Office of Legal Affairs \u2013 Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea (DOALOS), New York, USA<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul>[\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″ el_class=”Education”] Ph.D. in Public International Law (Doctorat en sciences juridiques) - Summa cum laude - Supervisor: Professor Genevi\u00e8ve Bastid Burdeau<\/p> Universit\u00e9 Paris 1 Panth\u00e9on \u2013 Sorbonne\/\u00c9cole de Droit de la Sorbonne (Sorbonne Law School), Paris, France<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul> LL.M. in International Law and International Organizations (Master 2 Recherche Droit International et Organisations Internationales) - With honors - Supervisor: Professor Genevi\u00e8ve Bastid Burdeau<\/p> Universit\u00e9 Paris 1 Panth\u00e9on \u2013 Sorbonne\/\u00c9cole de Droit de la Sorbonne (Sorbonne Law School), Paris, France<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul> M.A. in International Affairs\/Environment, Sustainable Development and Risks (Master Affaires Internationales. Environnement, D\u00e9veloppement Durable et Risques)<\/p> Institut d\u2019\u00c9tudes Politiques de Paris \u2013 Sciences Po (Paris Institute of Political Studies), Paris, France<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul> B.A. in Political Science and Public Law with honors (First Class)<\/p> National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column] 2. Visiting Fellow,\u00a0Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law,\u00a0Heidelberg, Germany, 2010<\/p>\n 3. Academy of the International Foundation for the Law of the Sea \u2013 International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (\u201cUses and Protection of the Sea. Legal, Economic and Natural Science Perspectives\u201d), Hamburg, Germany, 2007 and 2010<\/p>\n 4. Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy, Rhodes, Greece, 2009<\/p>\n 5. Visiting Fellow,\u00a0Lauterpacht Centre for International Law \u2013 University of Cambridge,\u00a0Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2009<\/p>\n 6. The Hague Academy of International Law \u2013 International Court of Justice (Public international law session), The Hague, the Netherlands, 2006 and 2008<\/p>\n 7. Bancaja Euro-Mediterranean Courses of International Law, Castellon, Spain, 2007<\/p>\n 8. Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles \u2013 Michigan State University International Summer School (\u201cExternal Relations of the European Union\u201d), Brussels, Belgium, 2004[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] [vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”33″ alignment=””][vc_column_text]Dr. Ioannis Konstantinidis is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Qatar University, College of Law and Affiliate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":693,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-pagebuilder.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/ikonstantinidis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/ikonstantinidis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/ikonstantinidis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/ikonstantinidis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/693"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/ikonstantinidis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":64,"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/ikonstantinidis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/ikonstantinidis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/qufaculty.qu.edu.qa\/ikonstantinidis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Academic Positions<\/h1>\n
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Visiting Professor of International Law<\/h4>
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Arbitrator under Annex VII of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea<\/h4>
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Head of Investment Treaty Arbitration and International Law<\/h4>
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