Dr. Roberto Castro de Figueiredo

Areas of expertise

• Sports law
• International arbitration
• Intellectual property rights

• Introduction to Football Law (BA (Hons) International Football Business)
• Sports Law and Governance (MSc Football Business)

• PhD, Queen Mary, University of London
• LLM, University of Dundee
• GDL, BPP University
• LLB, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
• PGCAP, St Mary’s University
• Barrister (Gray’s Inn)
• Advogado (Brazil)
• Advogado (Portugal)

• The ICSID Convention and the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties – A Paradox, Cambridge International Law Journal Blog (16 November 2022)
• ICSID Convention and the VCLT: Interpreting the Term ‘Investment’, in The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties in Investor-State Disputes: History, Evolution and Future (2022)
• Brazilian President’s Assent to the Bill on the Compulsory Licensing of COVID-19 Vaccines’ Patents, Kluwer Patent Blog (14 September 2021)
• TRIPS COVID-19 Waiver, Patent Breaking and Investment Treaty Arbitration, Kluwer Patent Blog (27 July 2021)
• Brazilian Senate Approves Bill on the Compulsory Licensing of COVID-19 Vaccines’ Patents, Kluwer Patent Blog (12 May 2021)
• The Petrobras Crisis: Arbitrating Investors’ Claims Against the Brazilian Federal Government, Kluwer Arbitration Blog (6 March 2021)
• Misapplying the General Rule of Treaty Interpretation: The Salini Test, Kluwer Arbitration Blog (3 December 2019)
• The Notion of Investment and Economic Development under the ICSID Convention, in ICSID Convention after 50 Years: Unsettled Issues (2017)
• A Anulação das Sentenças Arbitrais “Incompletas” e a Sentença Arbitral Complementar [The Annulment of “Uncomplete” Arbitral Awards and the Supplementary Arbitral Award], in A Reforma da Arbitragem (2016)
• Fragmentation and Harmonization in the ICSID Decision-Making Process, 11(1) Transnational Dispute Management (2014). Republished in Reshaping the Investor-State Dispute Settlement System: Journeys for the 21st Century (2015)
• The Investment Requirement of the ICSID Convention and the Role of Investment Treaties, 26(3) American Review of International Arbitration (2015)
• Brazil: arbitration law reloaded (co-authored with Dr Mark C. Hilgard and Ana Elisa Bruder), Financier Worldwide (August 2015)
• Amendments to the Brazilian Arbitration Law: Supplementary Arbitral Awards and Excess of Power, Kluwer Arbitration Blog (19 June 2015)
• Evolving Meaning: The Interpretation of Investment Treaties and Temporal Variations, Kluwer Arbitration Blog (21 March 2015)
• Previous Decisions in Investment Arbitration, Kluwer Arbitration Blog (23 December 2014)
• Interpreting Investment Treaties, Kluwer Arbitration Blog (21 October 2014)
• As Origens do Uso da Arbitragem Como Modo de Solução de Controvérsias em Disputas Relativas a Investimentos [The Origins of the Use of Arbitration as a Dispute Settlement Method in Investment Disputes], Revista Brasileira de Arbitragem – Edição Especial (2011)
• Alabama Claims: Decision of the Arbitrators Respecting National Losses, 31 Revista Brasileira de Arbitragem (2011)
• Urbaser S.A. e Consorcio de Aguas Bilbao Bizcaia, Bilboa Biskaia Ur Partzuergoa vs. Argentina (ICSID Case n. ABR/07/26): a decisão sobre o pedido de desqualificação de árbitro de 12.08.2010 [Urbaser S.A. and Consorcio de Aguas Bilbao Bizcaia, Bilboa Biskaia Ur Partzuergoa vs. Argentina (ICSID Case n. ABR/07/26): The Decision on the Proposal to Disqualify an Arbitrator], 29 Revista de Arbitragem e Mediação (2011)
• Mobil v. Venezuela: The Nationality Requirement under the ICSID Convention, 3 Yearbook on Arbitration and Mediation (2011)
• Question Mark on the Arbitrability of Disputes Arising out of Public Contracts in Brazil, Kluwer Arbitration Blog (22 October 2010)
• Euro Telecom v. Bolivia: The Denunciation of the ICSID Convention and ICSID Arbitration under BITs, 6(1) Transnational Dispute Management (2009)
• ICSID and Non-Foreign Investment Disputes, 4(5) Transnational Dispute Management (2007)