Javier García Olmedo is a researcher at the Faculty of Law of the University of Luxembourg and a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, where he teaches investment treaty law and arbitration on the distance learning LLM programme. He is a dual-qualified lawyer (Spain and England & Wales) who holds an LLM in Private International Law and International Dispute Settlement from King’s College London. He obtained this degree with the support of a TALENTIA Fellowship awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Innovation and Science. He also received a PhD from the University of Luxembourg, which he obtained thanks to a scholarship granted by the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law.
Javier combines academic activity with private practice. He was a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg and has extensive experience representing states and commercial entities in arbitral proceedings under all the major arbitral rules and institutions, including ICSID, PCA, UNCITRAL, LCIA and ICC. He also has experience acting in post-arbitration litigation (enforcement and annulment proceedings) and has worked as a Tribunal Secretary for late Professor Martin Hunter at Essex Court Chambers in London.
His main research focuses on the role of the nationality of investors in international investment law, with a focus on strategic nationality practices such as claims by dual nationals and corporate structuring. This is at the centre of his PhD, entitled ‘Nationality Planning in International Investment Law: Problems and Solutions’. He recently signed a contract with CUP to publish his PhD in the . His research also examines areas of interactions between international trade, investment and tax policies as well as the impact of sanctions on international arbitration. Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
He frequently speaks at international conferences and has published extensively on these topics. He was awarded the 2020 ICLQ Early Career Prize for his article on ‘Recalibrating the International Investment Regime through Narrowed Jurisdiction’, published in the . His publications also include articles in the , the and the . International and Comparative Law Quarterly European Foreign Affairs Review Leiden Journal of International Law Journal of International Dispute Settlement
