Ilias Bantekas

Professor of Law

Qualifications

LLB (Athens)
LLM (Liverpool)
PhD (Liverpool)
Dip Theology (Cantab)

Prior to joining Brunel Prof Bantekas held/holds appointments at the Universities of Westminster, Liverpool, Trier, Harvard, Cleveland State University, Miami, the International Institute of Humanitarian Law at San Remo, SOAS (University of London), Rosario (Bogota) and others. He has also worked as a legal expert for the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and has advised governments, private clients and NGOs on matters of general international law, foreign investment law and arbitration. In 2000 he was awarded the Paul Reuter Prize by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for his doctoral thesis. Alongside his academic activities, he is also Head of the International Law and Arbitration Department at Mourgelas & Associates Law Firm in Athens, Greece.

Teaching

Criminal Law
International Commercial Arbitration
International Criminal Law

Research Interests

General Public International Law
International Foreign Investment and Arbitration
International Development Banks
International Ecclesiastical Relations (particularly Orthodox Christianity)

Research Areas

Arbitration and alternative dispute resolution
Criminal law
Human rights
International economic law
Public international law
Religion and the law
Terrorism and the law

Research Groups

CIPL Centre for International and Public Law
LRRG Law and Religion Research Group
HRC Human Rights Centre

PhD Supervision

Prof Bantekas welcomes doctoral applications from students in any of the areas enumerated above.

External Activities

Head of International Law and Arbitration, Mourgelas & Associates Law Firm, Athens
Senior Advisor, Kadir Has University, Istanbul
Editorial Board Member, International Criminal Law Review
Advisory Board Member, Journal of Money Laundering Control
Editorial Board Member, Colombian Yearbook of International Law
Fellow, University of London, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies

Publications

Journal Papers

(Forthcoming) Bantekas, I., Gender and its intersectional dimension in international minority law, International Journal on Minority and Group Rights Forthcoming

(2010) Bantekas, I., Arbitration and problems associated with statutes of limitation in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, Oil, Gas and Energy Law Intelligence (OGEL) 2010 (OGEL 2) : 2

(2010) Bantekas, I., The proper law of the arbitration clause: a challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy, Journal of International Arbitration 27 (1) : -

(2009) Bantekas, I., Book review on Towards a European Criminal Record by Constantin Stefanou and Helen Xanthaki (eds), published in Cambridge by Cambridge University Press, European Journal of International Law 20 (4) : 1327- 1329

(2009) Bantekas, I., On stretching the boundaries of responsible command, Book review on The law of command responsibility by Guénaël Mettraux, published in Oxford by Oxford University Press, Journal of International Criminal Justice 7 (5) : 1197- 1208

(2009) Baamir, A. and Bantekas, I., Saudi law as lex arbitri: evaluation of Saudi arbitration law and judicial practice, Arbitration International 25 (2) : 239- 269

(2009) Bantekas, I., The authority of states to use names in international law and the Macedonian affair: unilateral entitlements, historic title and trademark analogies, Leiden Journal of International Law 22 (3) : 563- 582

(2009) Bantekas, I., The disunity of Islamic criminal law and the modern role of ijtihād, International Criminal Law Review 9 (4) : 651- 665

(2009) Bantekas, I., The need to amend article 12 of the ICC statute: remedying the effects of multilateral treaties upon third parties, New Criminal Law Review 12 (4) : 485- 497

(2009) Bantekas, I., The possibility or not of international norm change following mass human rights violations, Journal of the Philosophy of International Law 3 22- 39

(2009) Bantekas, I., United Nations employment law and the causes for the UN’s failed female senior appointments record, International Organizations Law Review 6 (1) : 225- 256

(2008) Bantekas, I., Can touching always be sexual when there is no sexual intent?, Journal of Criminal Law 72 (3) : 251- 258

(2008) Bantekas, I., Caste-based discrimination in international human rights law, Religion and Human Rights 3 (2) : 195- 197

(2008) Bantekas, I., The foundations of arbitrability in international commercial arbitration, Australian Year Book of International Law 27 193- 224

(2008) Bantekas, I., The mutual agreement procedure and arbitration of double taxation disputes, Colombian Yearbook of International Law 1 182- 204

(2008) Bantekas, I., The private dimension of the international customary nature of commercial arbitration, Journal of International Arbitration 25 (4) : 449- 460

Book Chapters

(Forthcoming) Bantekas, I., Environmental security in Africa. In: Abass, A. ed. Protecting Human Security in Africa: Issues and Challenges. Oxford University Press (Forthcoming)

(Forthcoming) Bantekas, I., Individual responsibility and the evolving legal status of the physical person in international human rights law. In: Baderin, M. and Ssenyonjo, M. eds. International Human Rights Law: Six Decades after the UDHR and Beyond. Ashgate Publishing (Forthcoming)

(Forthcoming) Bantekas, I., The communication of international law to its direct stakeholders. In: Colombian Yearbook of International Law. (Forthcoming)

(Forthcoming) Bantekas, I., The legal nature of intergovernmental trusts in international law. In: British Yearbook of International Law. (Forthcoming)

(2009) Bantekas, I., Arbitrability in finance and banking. In: Mistelis, LA. and Brekoulakis, SL. eds. Arbitrability: International and Comparative Perspectives. The Netherlands : Kluwer Law International 293- 315

Books

(Forthcoming) Bantekas, I. and Nash, S., International criminal law. Hart Publishing

(2009) Bantekas, I., Trust funds in international law and the trustee oligations of the UN and international development banks. T M C Asser Press