Biography

Full Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva since 2002. Andrea Bianchi has been a Visiting Professor at King’s College London, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; the University of Vienna Faculty of Law, the Catholic University in Milan and the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne). He has consulted for international organizations on matters related to security and human rights; for multinational corporations on business and human rights issues; and for States and private parties in international investment arbitration. In 2014 he appeared as adviser before the European Court of Human Rights Grand Chamber in the Al-Dulimi case. Between 2010 and 2014 he served as a designated member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Terrorism. He co-chaired the working group on the use of force that led to the Leiden Policy Recommendations on Counterterrorism and International Law (2010). In 2001 he was among the founders of the European Society of International Law in which Executive Council he sat until 2010.

His monograph on: International Law Theories. An Inquiry into Different Ways of Thinking (OUP 2016), has been translated into French (Penser différentes manières de penser. Theories de droit international, Dalloz 2023), and Spanish (Teorías del Derecho Internacional. Un studio sobre diferentes formas de pensar, Tirant Lo Blanch 2023) A Korean and Japanese translations are also under way.

Author and/or editor of: International Law’s Invisible Frames – Social Cognition and Knowledge Production in International Legal Processes (co-edited with Moshe Hirsch, OUP 2021); Interpretation in International Law (co-edited with Dan Peat and Matt Windsor; OUP 2015); Transparency in International Law (co-edited with Anne Peters; CUP, 2013); and of a trilogy of books on terrorism for Hart Publishing: Enforcing International Law Norms against Terrorism (2004); Counterterrorism: Democracy’s Challenge, (co-edited with Alexis Keller) (2008); and International Law and Terrorism (co-authored with Yasmin Naqvi) (2011). He has also edited the following research collections: Theory and Philosophy of International Law (Edward Elgar 2017); and Non-State Actors in International Law (Ashgate, 2009).

His most recent articles include: ‘Good faith as an Instrument of Treaty Interpretation: Instructions for Use’, ASA Bulletin (2022) (forthcoming); ‘Epistemic Communities in International Arbitration’, in Federico Ortino and Thomas Shultz (eds), Oxford Handbook of International Arbitration 569-590 (Oxford University Press, 2020); ‘Jurisdictional Immunities, Constitutional Values and System Closures’, in Curtis A. Bradley (ed), Oxford Handbook of Comparative Foreign Relations Law 685-699 (OUP, 2019).