Speaker profile
Lorand Bartels
Lorand Bartels is Reader in International Law in the Faculty of Law and a Fellow of Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge, where he teaches international law, WTO law and EU law. He holds degrees in English literature and law from the University of New South Wales and a PhD in law from the European University Institute.
Lorand is a member of the ILA's study group on free trade agreements and helped to establish the Society of International Economic Law. He is a general editor of the Cambridge International Trade and Economic Law Series (CUP), an associate editor of the Journal of World Trade and an editorial board member of several journals, including the Journal of International Economic Law, the Journal of International Dispute Settlement and Legal Issues of Economic Integration.
He has advised on international law and EU law to a number of countries, NGOs, international organizations, and the private sector and has written a number of reports for the European Parliament on the EU's trade and human rights policies, fisheries law, and treaty law. In 2011, he conducted a review of the SADC Tribunal, which has resulted in a new Protocol to the SADC Treaty. He is a Specialist Advisor to the UK House of Commons Select Committee on International Trade, and advises Linklaters as Senior Counsel on trade law, particularly in the context of Brexit.