Alexandros-Cătălin Bakos

About/Bio

Alexandros Bakos is an International Affairs Research Analyst at Comply Advantage, focusing on the international legal framework concerning the adoption, and imposition, of international sanctions. He is also the managing editor of DAVA | Strategic Analysis, an online platform focused on geopolitical and geostrategic analysis of the Eurasian region. Alexandros holds an LL.M. in International and Comparative Business Law from Babes-Bolyai University and an LL.M. in Law and Economics from Utrecht University. Most of his publications focus on public international law and international investment matters. At the same time, he is also interested in human rights law, international sanctions law, and EU external relations law

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The Extraterritorial Application of the Fair and Equitable Standard: The 1955 US-Iran Treaty of Amity before the International Court of Justice

Introduction In July 2018, Iran brought claims against the United States (US) before the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The former alleged breaches of certain treaty provisions of the 1955 Treaty of Amity, Economic Relations and Consular Right between the United States of America and Iran (1955 Treaty) because of the latter’s (re)imposition of sanctions…

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The European Court of Human Rights and Workplace Surveillance: Where is Article 31(3)(c) VCLT?

  Although one may be familiar with criticisms of the EU’s self-contained approach to its own legal system, this case of fragmentation is not limited to the EU alone. In fact, in one of the more recent cases on the docket of the European Court of Human Right (ECtHR), it was the Court’s Grand Chamber that adopted a…

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