Employment
Current employment
Référendaire, Chambers of
Advocate-General Sharpston, Luxembourg, mid-May 2011-
Visiting Lecturer, Université
Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), 2009-
Past employment
Associate, Sidley Austin
LLP, Geneva (Switzerland), June 2009-mid-May 2011
Affiliated Lecturer,
Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
(UK), 2006-2009
College Lecturer in Law,
Turpin-Lipstein Fellow, Director of Studies Clare College, University of
Cambridge, Cambridge (UK), 2007-2009
Assistant Director of the
LL.M. Course, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK), 2007-2009
Supervisor in public
international law, Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK), 2006-2007
Supervisor in public
international law, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge (UK), 2006-2007
Legal Liaison Officer, UN
Secretariat, Legal Affairs, Codification Division,
Geneva (Switzerland), July-August 2005
Research Assistant, Centre
for European Legal Studies, Cambridge (UK),
February-June 2005
Editorial Assistant,
Journal of International Economic Law, Washington
D.C. (USA), September 2003-September 2004
Research Assistant,
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington D.C.
(USA), August 2002-September 2004
Research Assistant,
Faculty of Law, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
(UK), April 2004-February 2005
Legal Intern, Appellate
Body Secretariat, World Trade Organization (WTO),
Geneva (Switzerland), June 2003-August 2003
Legal Intern, United
Nations (UN) Information Centre and Liaison Office for the EU Institutions, Brussels (Belgium), August 2001-October 2001
Education
Ph.D. in Law, Gonville
& Caius College, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge (UK), October 2004-September 2007
Certificate Hague Academy
of International Law in Public International Law, Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague (The
Netherlands), 31 July-18 August 2006
WTO Certificate, Institute
of International Economic Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington D.C. (USA), 2003
Masters of Law (LL.M.),
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington D.C.
(USA), September 2002-May 2003
Diploma Foundations of
American Law and Legal Education, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington D.C. (USA), Summer 2002
Master’s Degree in Law
(Lic. Jur.), Faculty of Law, Ghent University,
Ghent (Belgium), October 1999-July 2002
Bachelor’s Degree in Law
(Cand. Jur.), Faculty of Law, Ghent University,
Ghent (Belgium), October 1997-July 1999
Visiting Fellowships
Visiting Fellow, Graduate
Institute, Centre for Trade and Economic Integration, Geneva (Switzerland): July 2008-August 2008
Global Law Fellow, Center
on Global Legal Problems, Columbia Law School, New
York (USA), August-December 2005
Visiting Researcher,
Fellow Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown University Law
Center, Washington D.C. (USA), 2003-2004
Publications
Monographs and edited books
Isabelle Van Damme, Treaty
Interpretation by the WTO Appellate Body (Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2009) (488 pages) (Link)
(reviewed at 22(2) European Journal of
International Law (2011) 571-588
Daniel Bethlehem, Donald McRae, Rodney Neufeld, and Isabelle Van Damme
(eds), The Oxford Handbook of
International Trade Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009) (Link)
Chapters in books
Isabelle Van Damme and Joost Pauwelyn, ‘Trade’ in X (eds), Conceptual and Contextual Applications of
the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (2012) (forthcoming)
Isabelle Van Damme, ‘Interpretation, Jurisdiction, and Applicable
Law’ in D. Bethlehem, D. McRae, R. Neufeld, and I. Van Damme (eds), The Oxford Handbook of International Trade
Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009) 298-343
Isabelle Van Damme, ‘Chapter 4.
Treaty Interpretation Revisited: Interpreting Schedules of Concessions’
in F. Ortino and S. Ripinsky (eds), WTO
Law and Process – The Proceedings of the
2005 and 2006 Annual WTO Conference, Volume II (London: BIICL, 2007)
262-267
Isabelle Van Damme, ‘What Role Is There for Regional International
Law in the Interpretation of the WTO Agreements?’ in L. Bartels and F. Ortino
(eds), Regional Trade Agreements and the
WTO Legal System (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) 553-575
Articles
Isabelle Van Damme,
‘Treaty Interpretation’, available at http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/
Isabelle Van Damme,
and Geert De Baere, ‘Co-Adaptation in The International Legal Order: The EU and
The WTO’ Proceedings of the Bi-Annual
Meeting of the European Society of International Law (2011)
Isabelle Van Damme,
‘On ‘Good Faith Use of Dictionary in the Search of Ordinary Meaning under the
WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding’—A Reply to Professor Chang-Fa Lo’ 1(2) Journal
of International Dispute Settlement (2010) 1-9
Isabelle Van Damme,
‘The function of interpretation in the WTO’ 21(3) European Journal of International Law (2010) 605-648
Isabelle Van Damme,‘Ninth Annual WTO Conference: An Overview’ 13(2) Journal of International Economic Law (2010) 494-514
Isabelle Van Damme, ‘Eighth Annual WTO Conference: An Overview’
12(1) Journal of International Economic
Law (2009) 175-193
Isabelle Van Damme, ‘Inherent Powers of and for the WTO Appellate
Body’, Working Paper Centre for Trade and
Economic Integration, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
(Geneva) (August 2008), available at
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Isabelle Van Damme, ‘The Non-Politics of Interpreting Silences in
the WTO Covered Agreements’ 102 ASIL
Proceedings (2008) 420-424
Isabelle Van Damme,
‘Appellate Body Report, Brazil – Measures Affecting Imports of Retreaded Tyres’
57(3) International and Comparative Law Quarterly (2008) 710-723
Isabelle Van Damme, ‘Some Observations about the ILC Study Group
Report on the Fragmentation of International Law: WTO Treaty Interpretation
Against the Background of Other International Law’ XVII Finnish Yearbook of International Law (2006) 47-65
Isabelle Van Damme, ‘Seventh Annual WTO Conference: An Overview’
11(1) Journal of International Economic Law (2008) 1-11
Isabelle Van Damme, ‘The Interpretation of Schedules of Commitments’
41(1) Journal of World Trade (2007) 1-54
Isabelle Van Damme, ‘Systemic Integration of International Law:
Views from the ILC, the WTO CTE, and UNESCO’ Proceedings of the Canadian Council on International Law 34th Annual
Conference 2005 (2006) 59-88
Isabelle Van Damme, ‘Sixth Annual WTO Conference: An Overview’ 9(3) Journal of International Economic Law
(2006) 749-767
Isabelle Van Damme, ‘Fifth Annual WTO Conference: An Overview’ 8(3) Journal
of International Economic Law (2005) 769-792
Book reviews
Isabelle Van Damme, ‘Interpreting WTO Agreements – Problems and
Perspectives’ (by Asif H. Qureshi)’ 41(6) Journal of World Trade (2007)
1319-1322
Isabelle Van Damme, ‘The WTO at Ten: The Contribution of the Dispute
Settlement System (edited by Giorgio Sacerdotti, Alan Yanovich, and Jan
Bohanes)’ 21(1) Leiden Journal of
International Law (2008) 279-282
Isabelle Van Damme, ‘Key Issues in WTO Dispute Settlement (edited by
Rufus Yerxa and Bruce Wilson)’ 55(3) International and Comparative Quarterly
(2006) 776-778
Isabelle Van Damme, ‘International Dispute Settlement in an Evolving
Global Society: Constitutionalization, Accessibility, Privatization (by
Francisco Orrego Vicuña)’ 54(4) International and Comparative Law Quarterly
(2005) 1049-1052
