Michael Waibel

Michael Waibel is a professor of international law at the University of Vienna. His teaching and writing focus on international law, international economic law, sovereign debt and international dispute settlement. He received the Deák Prize of the American Society of International Law, the Book Prize of the European Society of International Law and a Leverhulme Prize for his research. He is Co-General Editor of the ICSID Reports (with Jorge Viñuales) and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Economic Law (with Kathleen Claussen and Sergio Puig).

Previously, he taught for a decade at the University of Cambridge, und was from 2015-2019 co-deputy director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law and Director of Studies at Jesus College. In 2010-2011 he was the Schmidheiny Visiting Assistant Professor in Law and Economics at the University of St. Gallen. In 2019, he was Nomura Visiting Professor of International Financial Systems at Harvard Law School.

He studied law at the universities of Vienna, Paris II Pantheon-Assas and Harvard Law School, and economics at the London School of Economics. He worked at the European Central Bank, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Research focus

• International Dispute Settlement, including arbitration
• International Financial Law
• Sovereign Debt and Financial Crises
• International Investment Law
• Law of Treaties
• Law and Economics
• European Monetary Union

Work in Progress

• Are Arbitrators Political: Evidence from ICSID Arbitration (with Yanhui Wu)
• Legal Original Sin (with Francois-Xavier Ladant)
• The Inviolability of the Archives of the European Central Bank
• The German Constitutional Court and Central Bank Independence
• European safe assets: past, present, and future (with Sebastian Grund)

Functions and Memberships

• Editor-in-Chief, Journal of International Economic Law (Oxford University Press, with Kathleen Claussen and Sergio Puig) (2021-)
• General Editor, ICSID Reports (Cambridge University Press, with Jorge Viñuales) (2019-)
• Programme Director, Executive Education Course in International Investment Law and Arbitration, Lauterpacht Centre, University of Cambridge (2018-)
• Treasurer and Board Member, International Law Students Association (2018-)
• Fellow, Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance
• Member, American Society of International Law, American Law & Economics Association, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerrecht, European Economic Association, European Law and Economics Association, European Society of International Law, International Law Association, Österreichischer Juristentag, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Europarecht, Österreichischer Juristentag, Société française pour le droit international, Society of Empirical Legal Studies, Society of International Economic Law

Awards

• 2020 Science Prize (Würdigungspreis), State of Vorarlberg
• 2018 Turing Fellowship
• 2015 British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award
• 2014 Leverhulme Prize
• 2012 Book Prize of the European Society of International Law
• 2009 Diploma, Hague Academy of International Law
• 2008 Bok Award for Teaching Excellence, Harvard University, Department of Economics
• 2008 Francis Déak Prize, American Society of International Law