Marc Jacob, LL.M. (Harvard), Barrister (Inner Temple)

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E-Mail: mjacob@mpil.de

 

Academic Career:

Marc Jacob is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. He has a broad interest in all fields of public international law. His current work focuses on international investment law, transnational dispute resolution, international courts and tribunals, conflict of laws, EU law and English public law. He is also completing a doctorate on judicial precedent in international law, with a special focus on the European Court of Justice.

 

He was educated at University College London (LL.B. First Class 2004) and Harvard Law School (LL.M. 2005) and was called to the bar of England and Wales in 2006 (Inner Temple). During bar school he taught contract and tort law and jurisprudence at University College London. He was editor-in-chief (joint) of the UCL Jurisprudence Review in 2004-2005.

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Recent publications

  • International Investment Agreements and Human Rights. INEF Research Paper Series on Human Rights, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development 03/2010. Duisburg: Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg‐Essen, 2010.
  • London Agreement on German External Debts (1953). In: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, R. Wolfrum (ed.), Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford 2008, ---, forthcoming.
  • Bank for International Settlements. In: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, R. Wolfrum (ed.), Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford 2008, ---, forthcoming.
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Presentations

14 Jun. 2010
The Systemic Function of Precedent: An International Law Perspective
"Beyond Dispute: International Judicial Institutions as Law-Makers", Conference
Where / When: Heidelberg, Germany
04 May. 2010
Comment: International Investment Law and Comparative Public Law
Max Planck Debating Series
Where / When: Heidelberg, Germany
06 Oct. 2009
On Precedent and System Building
"International Judicial Institutions as Law-Makers", Workshop
Where / When: Heidelberg, Germany
31 Oct. 2008
The Asymmetric Precedent of the European Court of Justice
Presentation to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law
Where / When: Heidelberg, Germany
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Participation in Conferences at Home and Abroad

"Beyond Dispute: International Judicial Institutions as Law-Makers", Conference, Heidelberg, Germany, 14.06.2010 - 15.06.2010

"Fourteenth Investment Treaty Forum", BIICL, London, UK, 07.05.2010

"The Exercise of Public Authority by International Courts", Workshop, Heidelberg, Germany, 15.04.2010

"International Investment Law and European Law", Workshop, Tübingen, Germany, 18.09.2009

Panel Discussion, UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism and Racial Discrimination, Heidelberg, Germany, 24.06.2009

"Der pouvoir neutre im nationalen und internationalen Recht", Colloquium, Heidelberg, Germany, 20.03.2009

"Solidarity: A Structural Principle of International Law", Symposium, Heidelberg, Germany, 29.10.2008

"International Law in a Heterogeneous World", 3rd Biennial Conference of the European Society of International Law (ESIL), Heidelberg, Germany, 04.09.2008 - 07.09.2008

"The Exercise of Public Authority by International Institutions", International Workshop, Heidelberg, Germany, 16.04.2008 - 18.04.2008

Annual Conference, German Branch of the International Law Association, Heidelberg, Germany, 13.06.2008

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Honours

Marc was previously a Harvard Law School Landon H. Gammon Fellow (2005), Major Scholar of Inner Temple (2006), Phoenicia Scholar of the Bar European Group (2006) and the recipient of various academic awards at University College London, including the Sweet & Maxwell Prize (2004), Bentham Prize (2004), Freshfields Prize for Conflict of Laws (2004), Simon Wallace Prize for Contract and Tort Law (2003), SJ Berwin Prize (2002), Blackstone Chambers Prize for Public Law (2002) and Herbert Smith Prize (2002).
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Memberships

European Society of International Law
Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
  • Last update: 17 Jun. 2010
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