Ilias Bantekas

Ilias Bantekas FCIArb, LLB (Athens), LLM and PhD (Liverpool), BA/Dip Theology (Cambridge) is Professor of International Law and Arbitration at Hamad bin Khalifa University, College of Law and a senior fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London, having held academic posts at Brunel, Harvard, Miami, Cleveland-State, Trier, Lausanne and elsewhere. He acts as consultant to various inter-governmental organizations, such as UNDP, UN special procedures, Council of Europe and the EU. He also advises state entities, law firms and NGOs in most fields of international law, human rights, business and human rights, international development law and arbitration and is regularly appointed as arbitrator in international disputes. He was a member of the Greek Debt Truth Committee and advises several debt-related organizations. He has authored close to 150 peer reviewed articles in top journals, Key books include: International Human Rights Law and Practice (3rd ed, Cambridge University Press 2020, with L Oette); Introduction to International Arbitration (Cambridge University Press 2015); Criminological Approaches to International Criminal Law (Cambridge University Press 2014); International Law (4th ed, Oxford University Press 2019); The International Criminal Court and Africa (Oxford University Press 2017, with C Jalloh); International Criminal Law (4th ed, Hart 2010); Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Oxford University Press 2018 with MA Stein and D Anastasiou); Sovereign Debt and Human Rights (Oxford University Press 2018 with C Lumina); Business and Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2020, with MA Stein).
Address: Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, College of Law, Education City, Doha, QATAR