ALINA PAPANASTASIOU

Alina is a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral research focuses on the incidental jurisdiction of international courts and tribunals. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge International Law Journal. She holds an LLM in international law (Dist) from the University of Cambridge, an LLB (Honours) from the University of Athens and a Minor in Finance from the American College of Greece. She has also studied international business at Harvard University, international commercial arbitration at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and at the International Academy for Arbitration Law in Paris, where she was awarded the Laureate of the Academy Prize.

She has experience practicing public international law and international arbitration at leading law firms in London, UK. Before commencing her graduate studies, she interned at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs and at a top-tier Greek law firm specializing in banking and finance. She has also delivered lectures, presented and published on international investment law and arbitration topics. 

Her research interests include public international law and dispute settlement, treaty interpretation, state responsibility, international economic law and international arbitration. She is fluent in Greek (native), English, French, reads Spanish and has basic knowledge of German.

e-mail: alina.papanastasiou[at]gmail[dot]com