Isabelle Van Damme

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Publications

Isabelle has published widely in the areas of EU and international trade law and some examples are listed below.

Monographs and edited books 

The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law, second edition (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) (co-edited with D. Bethlehem, D. McRae and R. Neufeld).

Commentary on the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement (Cambridge University Press, 2021) (co-authored with P. De Baere and C. du Parc).

Treaty Interpretation by the WTO Appellate Body (Oxford University Press, 2009) (reviewed at 22(2) European Journal of International Law (2011) 571-588).

The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law (Oxford University Press, 2009) (co-edited with D. Bethlehem, D. McRae and R. Neufeld).

‘National security’ in D. Bethlehem, D. McRae, R. Neufeld and I. Van Damme (eds), The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law, second edition (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

‘Likeness and Environment in the GATT years’ in P. Delimatis and L. Reins (eds), Encyclopedia of Environmental Law (Edward Elgar, 2021) (with T. Payosova).

‘Investment arbitration under intra-EU BITs’ in N. Lavranos and J.R. Mata Dona (eds), International Arbitration and EU Law (Edward Elgar, 2021) (with Q. Declève) 291-319.

‘Technical Barriers to Trade in the New Generation of EU Trade Agreements’ in M. Hahn and G. Van der Loo (eds), Law and Practice of the Common Commercial Policy (Brill/Nijhoff, 2021) 206-234. ‘

‘Facultative mixity and the European Union’s trade and investment agreements’ in I. Govaere and M. Chamon (eds), EU External Relations Post-Lisbon – The Law and Practice of Facultative Mixity (Brill, 2020) (with Gesa Kübek) 257-300.

‘Technical Barriers to Trade’ in M. Hahn and G. Van der Loo (eds), Law and Practice of the Common Commercial Policy (Brill/Nijhoff, 2021) 206-234.

‘Preliminary rulings’ in J. Huerta-Goldman and M. Molina-Tejeda (eds), Practical Aspects of WTO Litigation (Kluwer Law International, 2020) 257-300.

‘Understanding the choice for evolutionary interpretation’ in G. Abi-Saab, G. Marceau and C. Marquet (eds), Evolutionary Interpretation and International Law (Hart, 2019) 171-179.

‘Trade’ in M. Bowman and D. Kritsiotis (eds), Conceptual and Contextual Perspectives on the Modern Law of Treaties (Cambridge University Press, 2018) (with Joost Pauwelyn).

‘Treaties and Treaty Interpretation in International Economic Law’ in T. Cottier and K. Nadakavukaren Schefer (eds), Encyclopedia of International Economic Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017).

‘Procedural review in WTO law’ in J. Gerards and E. Brems (eds), Procedural review in European fundamental rights cases (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

‘Good Faith in Treaty Interpretation’ in A. Mitchell, M. Sornarajah and T. Voon (eds), Good Faith in International Investment Law (Oxford University Press, 2015) (with Eric De Brabandere).

‘The Appellate Body’s Use of the Articles on State Responsibility in US – Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duties (China)’ in C. Chinkin and F. Baetens (eds), Sovereignty, Statehood and State Responsibility: Essays in Honour of James Crawford (Cambridge University Press, 2015).

‘Jurisdiction, Applicable Law and Interpretation’ in D. Bethlehem, D. McRae, R. Neufeld, and I. Van Damme (eds), The Oxford Handbook of International Trade Law (Oxford University Press, 2009).

‘Introduction’ to EU Law Live Weekend Edition on the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment, EU Law Live Weekend Edition No 56 (1 May 2021).

‘De rechtspraak van het Hof van Justitie over investeringsarbitrage onder intra-EU en extra-EU investeringsverdragen’ 12 SEW (2020) 658-668 (with Q. Declève). ‘Expired measures, excess duty drawbacks and causation: the Appellate Body report in EU – PET (Pakistan)’ 19(2) World Trade Review (2020) 232-248 (with Arevik Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan)

‘Reflections on the WTO Negotiations on Prohibiting IUU Fishing Subsidies’ GSI Policy Brief, International Institute for Sustainable Development (February 2020).

‘The Assessment of expert evidence in international adjudication’, 9(3) Journal of International Dispute Settlement (2018) 401-410.

‘Achmea: potential consequences for CETA, the Multilateral Investment Court, Brexit and other EU trade and investment agreements’, International Litigation Blog (March 2018) (with Quentin Declève).

‘The Judicial Trilemma: a response by Isabelle Van Damme’, 111 American Journal of International Law Unbound (2017) 359-363.

‘Professor John H. Jackson and the normative challenges of the WTO’, 19(2) Journal of International Economic Law (2016) 343-346.

‘Case C-414/11 Daiichi: The Impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the Competence of the European Union over the TRIPS Agreement’, 4(1) Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law (2015) 73-87.

‘A practical perspective on treaty interpretation: the Court of Justice of the European Union and the WTO dispute settlement system’, 3(2) Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law (2014) 489-507 (with Andreas Sennekamp).

‘Co-Adaptation in the International Legal Order: the EU and the WTO’, Proceedings of the Bi-Annual Meeting of the European Society of International Law (2011) 311-325 (with Geert De Baere).

‘On ‘Good Faith Use of Dictionary in the Search of Ordinary Meaning under the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding’ – A Reply to Professor Chang-Fa Lo’, 2(1) Journal of International Dispute Settlement (2011) 231-239.

‘Treaty Interpretation by the WTO Appellate Body’, 21(3) European Journal of International Law (2010) 605-648.

‘Inherent Powers of and for the WTO Appellate Body’, Centre for Trade and Economic Integration Working Paper, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) (August 2008)

‘The Non-Politics of Interpreting Silences in the WTO Covered Agreements’, 102 ASIL Proceedings (2008) 420-424.

‘Some Observations about the ILC Study Group Report on the Fragmentation of International Law: WTO Treaty Interpretation Against the Background of Other International Law’, XVII Finnish Yearbook of International Law (2006) 47-65.

‘The Interpretation of Schedules of Commitments’, 41(1) Journal of World Trade (2007) 1-54.

Teaching Positions

Isabelle Van Damme regularly lectures on trade law and EU external relations law. She is a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, where she teaches EU trade law and policy. She previously was a lecturer and the Turpin Lipstein Fellow at the University of Cambridge, Clare College. She has also taught at the World Trade Institute, the University of Leuven (KUL) and the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL).