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Qualifications
BA/LLB from ANU (National Undergraduate Scholarship, 1st Class Honours and University Medal), LLM from NYU (Fulbright Scholar, Hauser Scholar and Jerome Lipper Award), PhD from ANU (JG Crawford Award)
Biography
Anthea Roberts, a Professor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), is an interdisciplinary researcher and legal scholar who focuses on new ways of thinking about complex and evolving global fields. She is the Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice and chairs the ANU Geoeconomics Working Group. Anthea is currently a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and formerly taught at the London School of Economics, Columbia Law School and Harvard Law School.
The League of Scholars has named Anthea the world's leading international law scholar (2019, 2022) and Australia's leading law scholar (2019). She has twice been awarded the Francis Deák Prize for the best article published in the American Journal of International Law by a young scholar and received an ANU Futures Award and a UK Philip Leverhulme Prize.
Research interests
International law, trade and investment | The effect of geopolitical change on global governance | Understanding and navigating complex systems
Researcher's projects
Anthea's latest book Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why it Matters (co-authored with Nicoloas Lamp) with Harvard University Press was listed as one of the Best Books of the Year by the Financial Times and Fortune Magazine. See more information on Six Faces here.
Her first book Is International Law International (2017) won numerous prizes, including the American Society of International Law's Book Prize, and was Oxford University Press's top selling law monograph worldwide in 2017-2018.
Anthea is also engaged in a long-term project with Dr Taylor St John, studying the evolution of governance of investor-state arbitration. See more information on ISDS Reform here.
Teaching
Complexity, Catastrophe and Resilience (REGN8056)
Keywords
- JZ International relations
- JX International law
- HB Economic Theory
Expertise Areas
- Comparative Law
- Geoeconomics
- International Law (excl. International Trade Law)
- International Trade Law
- Litigation, Adjudication and Dispute Resolution
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Community Rule-Making in the Pacific Islands as Regulatory Innovation
Forsyth, M., Boodoosingh, R., Dinnen, S., Hukula, F. & Roberts, A.
Australian Research Council (ARC)
31/01/22 → 31/01/25
Project: Research
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Navigating the Emerging Geo-Economic Order: Integrating Economics, Security and Collective Defence through 2040.
Roberts, A., Golley, J., Herscovitch, B., Kennedy, A., Lim, D., Medcalf, R., Sass, J. & van der Kley, D.
Commonwealth Department of Defence
10/06/20 → 30/08/23
Project: Research
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The geoeconomics of critical technology standards in Southeast Asia
Roberts, A., Lim, D. & van der Kley, D.
Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
7/06/21 → 31/03/23
Project: Research
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Engaging with private sector on the intersection of economics, security and technology
Roberts, A., Gertz, G., Golley, J., Herscovitch, B., Lim, D. & van der Kley, D.
Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
1/01/21 → 30/06/22
Project: Research
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COMPLEX DESIGNERS AND EMERGENT DESIGN: REFORMING THE INVESTMENT TREATY SYSTEM
Roberts, A. & St John, T., 2022, In: American Journal of International Law. 116, 1, p. 96-149Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Introduction to the symposium on global labs of international commercial dispute resolution
Roberts, A., 2021, In: AJIL Unbound. 115, p. 1-4Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Six Faces of Globalization : Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters
Roberts, A. & Lamp, N., 2021, 1 ed. United States: Harvard University Press. 400 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Challenges and Opportunities in the Post-COVID-19 World - Geopolitics: Resilient and Sustainable Globalization
Roberts, A., 2020Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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The US-China Trade War is a Competition for Technological Leadership
Roberts, A., Choer Moraes, H. & Ferguson, V., 2019, Washington, D.C. United States of AmericaResearch output: Other contribution