ELENA CIMA

ACADEMIC DIRECTOR

Elena Cima is a Senior Lecturer in Public International Law at the University of Geneva, where she teaches courses on international economic law, environmental law and energy law. She is also the Director of the University of Geneva’s Summer School in International Law and International Humanitarian Law. She is a visiting lecturer at the LLM in Transnational Arbitration and Dispute Settlement of SciencesPo Paris and at the LLM in Public International Law of the Geneva Graduate Institute.

Elena develops trainings on trade and investment dispute settlement for the Multilateral Diplomacy Programme (MDP) of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).

She is the Chair of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) Interest Group on Energy and International Law.

Elena is the author of the monograph From Exception to Promotion: Re-Thinking the Relationship between International Trade and Environmental Law (Brill, 2021). She has co-edited several books and has published articles in peer-reviewed journals on international trade law, climate law, water law, as well as investment law. In addition to her academic commitments, Elena is often involved in investment and commercial arbitrations, international water and climate negotiations, as well as advisory proceedings before international courts and tribunals.

Elena holds a PhD in International Law from the Geneva Graduate Institute, a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Milan and an LL.M degree from Yale Law School, where she was editor of the Yale Journal of International Law.