BIO NOTE
Steffen Hindelang is currently professor of international investment and trade law at Uppsala University in Sweden. He teaches and researches in the areas of international economic law, esp. international investment law, EU law and German public law. He is also faculty at the University of Southern Denmark and adjunct faculty at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Technical University Berlin. He is senior fellow at the Walter Hallstein Institute of European Constitutional Law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and academic advisor to the International Investment Law Centre Cologne (IILCC). Previously, he was guest professor at, among others, the University of Uppsala as a Riksbankens Jubileumsfond – Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Swedish Prize Laureate, at Nagoya University, Bocconi University Milan, the University of Lausanne, the Charles University Prague, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), and the Turkish-German University Istanbul.
Furthermore, he has advised, inter alia, European governments on investment screening regulation as well as in international investment disputes and international organisations, such as UNCTAD, on matters of reform of the current international investment law regime. He was repeatedly invited by the European Parliament’s INTA Committee to prepare studies on the evolvement of the EU Common Commercial Policy in the area of investment. He was also involved in the Achmea proceedings, in particular in the German courts, and, lately, served as EU law expert in support of the Kingdom of Spain in US Court proceedings in Novenergia, Eiser, Antin, Masdar, and others. In the Swedish Supreme Court, he acts as expert in support of the Republic of Poland in PL Holdings.
He serves at the ICSID Panel of Conciliators designated by the Federal Republic of Germany for the term 2019-2025.
Steffen is series co-editor of the YSEC Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions, Springer.
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Since 2020
Professor of International Investment and Trade Law
Uppsala Universitet (Uppsala University, Faculty of Law, Uppsala / Sweden)
- Public international law, esp. international economic law focusing on international investment law, investment arbitration, international dispute settlement; investment law reform and sustainable development, comprehensive trade and investment agreements, regime collisions, norm diffusion in international and regional trade and investment regimes, economic analysis of investment protection norms, the relationship of international investment law to (general) public international law and to EU law, and small- and medium-sized enterprises in cross-border transactions
- EU law
- German and comparative constitutional and administrative law
Teaching and Supervising LL.M. and Ph.D. Theses
- Public international law, esp. international economic law, investment arbitration
Legal Expert Opinions - Knowledge Transfer - Media - Expert Witness Statements - Consultancy
- Legal expert and consultant for the European Parliament, legal expert for the Deutsche Bundestag (German Federal Parliament), for the Hessischer Landtag (State Parliament of Hesse), for the German Federal Government, i.e. the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, for the Slovak Government, for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva, and others on matters of regulating foreign investment
Since 2017
Professor (with special responsibilities)
Syddansk Universitet (University of Southern Denmark), Department of Law, Odense / Denmark
- Public international law, esp. international economic law focusing on international investment law, investment arbitration, international dispute settlement; investment law reform and sustainable development, comprehensive trade and investment agreements, regime collisions, norm diffusion in international and regional trade and investment regimes, economic analysis of investment protection norms, the relationship of international investment law to (general) public international law and to EU law, and small- and medium-sized enterprises in cross-border transactions
- EU law
- German and comparative constitutional and administrative law
Administration
- Member of the Committee for Internationalisation of Education (since 2017)
Teaching and Supervising LL.M. and Ph.D. Theses
- Public international law, esp. international economic law, investment arbitration
- EU law
- EU competition law
Legal Expert Opinions - Knowledge Transfer - Media - Expert Witness Statements - Consultancy
- Legal expert and consultant for the European Parliament, legal expert for the Deutsche Bundestag (German Federal Parliament), for the Hessischer Landtag (State Parliament of Hesse), for the German Federal Government, i.e. the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, for the Slovak Government, for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva, and others on matters of regulating foreign investment
2011-2017
Professor as Juniorprofessor
Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin), Law School / Germany
- In 2014 successful interim evaluation (equivalent to Habilitation in accordance with § 100 Abs. 1 Nr. 4, Abs. 2 BerlHG)
Research Focus
- Public international law
- EU law
- German and comparative constitutional and administrative law
Academic Self-Administration
- Full Member of the Working Group "International Network" of the "Excellence Council", Executive Board of the Free University (2015-17)
- Deputy Managing Director of the Institute of Public Law at the Department of Law (2015-17)
- Full Member of the Council of the Institute of Public Law at the Department of Law (2015-17),
- Full Member of the De-central Election Committee of the Department of Law (2011-15)
- Deputy Member of the Board of Examiners of the Department of Law (2011-5)
Teaching
- EU law
- European and international norm and standard setting
- International economic and investment law, investor-State dispute settlement, WTO law
- German constitutional and administrative law
- Faculty coordinator and supervisor of the Free University team in the European Law Moot Court Competition
Supervision
- Ph.D. and master theses in EU, public international and german public law
Legal Expert Opinions - Knowledge Transfer - Media - Expert Witness Statements - Consultancy
- Legal expert and consultant for the European Parliament, legal expert for the Deutsche Bundestag (German Federal Parliament), Hessischer Landtag (State Parliament of Hesse), expert advisor to different EU Member State governments, to a “Permanent Five”-Member of the UN Security Council, to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva, and to others on matters of regulating foreign investment
2010 – 2011
Wissenschaftlicher Assistent (Senior research associate)
Humboldt-Universität (Humboldt University) of Berlin, Law School / Germany
to Professor Dr. Dres. h.c. Ingolf Pernice (Chair of Public Law, European Law and International Law) and senior lecturer at the Law School
2004 – 2009
Wissenschaftlicher Angestellter (Research associate)
Eberhard-Karls-Universität of Tübingen, Law School / Germany
to Prof. Dr. Martin Nettesheim (Chair of Public Law, European Law, International Law and Foreign Policy) and lecturer at the Law School
ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENT
2019-2025
Service at the ICSID Panel of Conciliators designated by the Federal Republic of Germany
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), World Bank Group, Washington, D.C. / USA
2018-2023
Service at the Panel of Experts
European Parliament, Committee of International Trade, Brussels / Belgium
Since 2017
Adjunct faculty, Energy investment and trade law
Technische Universität Berlin (Technical University of Berlin) / Germany
Since 2011
Adjunct faculty, European and international investment law
Humboldt-Universität (Humboldt University) of Berlin, Law School / Germany
01.2018-03.2018
Guest professor, European and international economic law
Nagoya University / Japan
05.2017-12.2017
Guest professor, EU and international investment law
Uppsala University / Sweden
as 26. Sweden Prize Laureate of the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences) Stockholm in cooperation with the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung Bonn
SS 2017, SS 2018
Guest professor - "Flying Faculty", Public International Law
Turkish-German University Istanbul / Turkey
SS 2017
Acting professor, German public law
University of Mannheim / Germany
WS 2014/15
Guest professor, EU law
Moscow State Institute of International Relations / Russia
Joint LL.M. Programme Free University/MGIMO on “German and European Public and Commercial Administrative Law
SS 2014
Guest professor, International economic law
Université de Lausanne / Switzerland
Erasmus Teaching Staff Mobility Programme
SS 2012
Guest professor, EU and international economic law
Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi Milan / Italy
EDUCATION
2019
Habilitation “by book”
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Law School / Germany
2014
Habilitation equivalent “by tenure track evaluation committee”
Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Law / Germany
2007 - 2009
Zweites Juristisches Staatsexamen (Second legal state examination; bar exam equivalent) at the German State of Baden-Württemberg / Germany
Referendariat (legal clerkship) with stages inside and outside state judiciary,
among others, at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, at Gleiss Lutz Rechtsanwälte (law firm), Dispute Settlement Department, and CMS Hasche Sigle Rechtsanwälte (law firm), Public Procurement Department
Rechtsassessor (fully qualified for the office of a German judge as well as lawyer)
2004 – 2008
Dr. iur. (Ph.D. in law equivalent)
Eberhard-Karls-University of Tübingen, Law School / Germany
“The Free Movement of Capital and Foreign Direct Investment” (Oxford University Press, 2009); Thesis Prize
07/2005
Participation in the Academy of European Law
EUI, Florence / Italy
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Merit scholarship
2001 – 2003
Erstes Juristisches Staatsexamen (1st legal state examination; J.D. equivalent)
Philipps University of Marburg, Law School / Germany
2000 – 2001
LL.M. in International, European and Commercial Law
University of Sheffield, Law School / Great Britain
1997 – 2000
Law and Economics Studies
University of Bayreuth, Law School / Germany
OTHER ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS / EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Since 2011
Senior Fellow
Walter-Hallstein Institut für Europäisches Verfassungsrecht Berlin (Walter-Hallstein Institute for European Constitutional Law)
Since 2010
Academic Advisor
International Investment Law Center of the University of Cologne
SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES (SELECTION)
2016/17
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (The Swedish Foundation for
Humanities and Social Sciences) in cooperation with the
Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Foundation)
26th Swedish Prize (merit research award for outstanding German scholars)
2009
Doctoral Thesis Prize
Reinhold und Maria Teufel Stiftung (Foundation)
2005 – 2008
Merit doctoral scholarship
Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (Foundation of German Business)
07/2005
Merit DAAD scholarship
for the participation in the Academy of European Law, EUI, Florence / Italy
1998 – 2003
Merit student scholarship
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (Foundation)
MEMBERSHIPS (Selection)
Deutsche Vereinigung für Internationales Recht (German Branch of the International Law Association)
u. a. Alternate Member of the German Branch of the International Law Association to the ILA Committee on “The Rule of Law and International Investment Law”
European Society of International Law (ESIL)
Society of International Economic Law (SIEL)
Wissenschaftliche Vereinigung für das gesamte Regulierungsrecht (Scientific Association for Regulatory Law)
Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Europarecht in der Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung (Scientific Society for European Law in the Society for Comparative Law)
Vereinigung der Deutschen Staatsrechtslehrer (Association of German Professors in Constitutional, Administrative, EU, Public International Law)
Deutsche Initiative junger Schiedsrechtler (German Initiative of Young Arbitration Lawyer)
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS)
Mitglied des Auswahlausschusses der Deutschen Studienförderung (member of the selection committee for German study grants)
Vertrauensdozent für die Stipendiatengruppe "Dänemark" (Professorial mentor for KAS scholarship holders studying in Denmark)
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
ad-hoc member of the LL.M. scholarship selection committee