Professor Stefan Talmon has more than thirty years of experience in international law both as a barrister and as an academic. Over the years, he has represented more than ten States. As a generalist, he has acted across the full range of international law, including human rights, law of the sea, air and space law, investment law, UN and EU sanctions, and environmental law.

He regularly appears as counsel and advocate before the International Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. He acts as counsel and advocate as well as expert witness before international investment arbitration tribunals. He has also been called as expert witness in courts in the United States and Germany. Besides his litigation work, he regularly advises States and international corporations on questions of international and European Union law. In recent years, he has also sat as an arbitrator.

In his academic capacity, he is currently the professor of international law at the University of Bonn and director of the Bonn Institute for International Law. Prior to taking up the chair in Bonn he was professor of international law at the University of Oxford. He still holds a supernumerary fellowship at St. Anne’s College, Oxford, and has returned to Oxford as a visiting fellow of All Souls College and as the Fowler Hamilton Visiting Research Fellow at Christ Church.

He has written extensively on public international law and currently serves as editor-in-chief of German Practice in International Law.

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