Dr. Markus Gehring, D.jur (Hamb), LL.M. (Yale), MA (Cantab)
Germany
Lead Counsel, Trade, Investment, Competition Law

Dr Markus W. Gehring is Lead Counsel for Trade, Investment and Competition Law with the Centre of International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL). He is Lecturer in International and European Law at the Centre of International Studies, Department of Political Science and International Studies (POLIS) and Fellow in Law at Cambridge University (Robinson College). He has been a visiting professor in several universities around the globe and is associated as professor with the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section. He holds an MA from Cambridge, an LL.M from Yale and a Dr jur from Hamburg. He is a member of the Frankfurt Bar, and a former associate member of the Brussels Bar. He represented the CISDL at World Trade Organization Ministerial Conferences in Doha, Qatar; Cancun, Mexico; and Hong Kong, China; as well as at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa and various other international negotiations. He is a member of the International Law Association, German Branch, and serves on the ILA Committee on International Law on Sustainable Development. He serves on the Research Committee of the IUCN Academy for Environmental Law and as an instructor in international law at the International Development Law Organization.

Prior to joining academia, Dr Gehring practiced European Competition and International Trade law at Cleary Gottlieb in their Brussels office. He was Tutor in Public International Law at the Oxford University Faculty of Law (University and other Colleges) and a legal researcher with Prof. Vaughan Lowe (All Souls College). He also taught German Constitutional and Administrative Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg, Germany, and was legal fellow at the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development in Geneva, where he edited the BRIDGES Journal legal column. Dr Gehring has published on various aspects of trade, European and climate change law. He has published several books including with MC Cordonier Segger, Sustainable Development in World Trade Law (Kluwer Law International, 2005) and with J Hepburn and MC Cordonier Segger World Trade Law in Practice (Globe Publishing, 2007). His other legal research focuses on the constitutional dimensions of European and international trade law, and sustainable development law at the intersection of international economic, environmental and social development law.