Catharine Titi

About/Bio

Catharine Titi is a Research Associate Professor (tenured) at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)–CERSA, University Paris II Panthéon-Assas, France. She is Co-Chair of the ESIL Interest Group on International Economic Law, Member of the Steering Committee of the Academic Forum on ISDS, Member of the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on Rule of Law and International Investment Law and she serves on the Editorial Board of the Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy (Columbia/OUP). Catharine holds a PhD from the University of Siegen in Germany (Summa cum laude) and has previously been a consultant at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). In 2016, Catharine was awarded the prestigious Smit-Lowenfeld Prize of the International Arbitration Club of New York for the best article published in the field of international arbitration.

Recently Published

The Timing of Treaty Party Interpretations

Treaty interpretation by treaty Parties was initially planned to be discussed in the 39th session of UNCITRAL Working Group III scheduled to take place in New York in March-April 2020. A Note prepared by the UNCITRAL Secretariat in anticipation of the now-postponed session addressed treaty interpretation in the context of ISDS, pointing to the existing interpretive…

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CETA Opinion – Setting Conditions for the Future of ISDS

The April 2019 New York UNCITRAL Meeting of Working Group III did not discuss the then forthcoming Opinion 1/17 (CETA Opinion) on the compatibility of CETA’s investment court system with EU law. For some the dangers this Opinion could pose to ISDS were altogether non-existent – the Court of Justice of the…

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