Enseigne ou a enseigné à l’ULB les cours de droit international public et crise climatique, droit international économique, droit international des investissements, droit international public appliqué aux affaires, droit international diplomatique et consulaire, International Investment Law and Dispute Settlement.

Enseigne les cours de droit international general et de règlement pacifique des différends à l’Université de Gand (Universiteit Gent) (à partir de septembre 2023).

International visiting faculty, Uppsala Master in Investment Treaty Arbitration, Uppsala University, Sweden (depuis 2020).

Visiting professor in International Law of Climate Change, Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi (depuis 2022).

Anciennement professeur invite à la Ca’ Foscari University de Venise, Aix-Marseille Université et l’Institut d’études politiques (Sciences Po) de Lille.

Nicolas Angelet est l’auteur de plusieurs dizaines de publications en droit international, notamment en droit des investissements, droit diplomatique, droit international des immunités. Ses publications récentes comprennent, à titre illustratif,

• “Fair and Equitable Treatment”, in Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, revised edition, 2022, 29 p.

• “Vers une reciprocité totale en règlement des différends investisseurs-Etats”, in Chloé Brière a.o., eds., La coopération transatlantique au-delà du CETA, Brussels, PUB, 2022, p. 155-168.

• “The Drafting of Awards in Investor-State Arbitration”, in: Fabrizio Marella and Nicola Soldati, eds., Liber amicorum Giorgio Bernini, Giuffrè, 2021, p. 271-293.

• Tom Ruys & Nicolas Angelet, eds., The Cambridge Handbook on Immunities and International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 720 p.

Nicolas Angelet dirige plusieurs projets de recherche doctorale et postdoctorale en histoire du droit des investissements, droits humains et environnement, droits humains et entreprises, et en droit international des investissements.

Il a été membre du comité d’organisation de la Conférence annuelle 2022 de la American Society of International Law.

Nicolas Angelet est avocat et arbitre à titre d’activité professionnelle principale. Il siège comme arbitre et président de tribunaux arbitraux d’investissements et est intervenu comme conseil devant un très grand nombre de cours et tribunaux internationaux, dont la Cour internationale de Justice, le Tribunal international pour le droit de la mer, la Cour de Justice de l’Union européenne, des tribunaux arbitraux internationaux, et des organes non-judiciaires internationaux. Il apparaît également comme conseil et comme expert devant les tribunaux nationaux, en Belgique et à l’étranger, dans de nombreuses affaires-phare de droit international public.

Comme arbitre:

President of the Arbitral Tribunal, Venezuela Holdings B.V. and others v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, ICSID Case No. ARB/07/27, resubmission.

President of the Arbitral Tribunal, Ayoub-Farid Michel Saab v. United Republic of Tanzania, ICSID Case No. ARB/19/8 (discontinued).

Member of the ICSID ad hoc Committee in Víctor Pey Casado and President Allende

Foundation v. Chile (ICSID Case No. ARB/98/2), second annulment proceedings.

Sole arbitrator in CEPANI commercial arbitration proceedings.

Comme conseil et expert:

Counsel to the Democratic Republic of Congo before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Request for an Advisory Opinion submitted by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law.

Counsel to the Democratic Republic of Congo before the International Court of Justice, Request for an advisory opinion on the obligations of States in respect of climate change, submitted by General Assembly Resolution 77/276.

Counsel to the Moroccan intervening parties before the European Court of Justice in joint cases C-779/21 P, C-799/21 P, and in joint cases C-778/21 P and C-798/21 P, Polisario Front v. Council and Commission of the European Union, French Republic, Kingdom of Spain and Moroccan business associations intervening.

Expert witness on questions of public international law before the Supreme Court of British Columbia in the case of The Attorney General of Canada on behalf of the United States of America v [Huawei CFO] Wanzhou Meng.

Counsel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo before the International Court of Justice in the Case concerning armed activities on the territory of the Congo, Congo v. Uganda, second phase (reparation).

Expert witness on the law of treaties in cases T-279/19 and T-344/19 before the General Court of the European Union.

Counsel to ClientEarth AISBL, ClientEarth LBG and CHEM Trust Europe, interveners, before the General Court of the European Union and the European Court of Justice in Chemours Netherlands BV v. European Chemicals Agency, case T-636/19 / C-293/22 P, Kingdom of the Netherlands intervening.

Member of the Belgian team in the proceedings on request for advisory opinion 1/17 of the European Court of Justice on the compatibility of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the law of the European Union (2016-2019).

Advisory work for the environmental law NGO ClientEarth on issues of public international law (2019-2020).

Counsel to Yukos Universal Ltd. in Belgian recognition and enforcement proceedings in Yukos Universal Ltd. v. Russian Federation (until 2018).

Counsel to Mr. Viorel Micula in Belgian enforcement proceedings of the ICSID arbitration award in Micula v. Romania (European Commission intervening) (until 2018).

Counsel to the Republic of Kazakhstan in the recognition and enforcement proceedings re Anatolie Stati a.o. v. Kazakhstan, SCC Case No. V 116/2010 (until 2018).

Counsel to the Kingdom of Spain on immunity issues arising before the Belgian courts (until 2018).

Counsel to the Minister-President of the Walloon Region of Belgium in negotiations towards the signature of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) (2016).

Counsel to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in annulment proceedings before the Paris Court of Appeal – UN Convention against corruption (2013-2017).

Counsel to the European Space Agency in various contentious and non-contentious matters.

Counsel to the EU Satellite Centre, Residual Administrative Tasks Unit, in various contentious and non-contentious matters.

Counsel to the Republic of Burundi in ICSID Case No. ARB/13/7, Mr. Joseph Houben v. Republic of Burundi (2013-2016).

Counsel to the Republic of Burundi in ICSID Case No. ARB/14/31, Tareq Bashir & Interpétrol v. Republic of Burundi (2014-2016).

Counsel to the Kingdom of Belgium in ICSID Case No. ARB/12/29, Ping An Life Insurance Company, Limited and Ping An Insurance (Group) Company, Limited v. Belgium (2012-2015).

Counsel to an investor in an UNCITRAL investment arbitration case against a European country. Preparatory advisory work without participation in the proceedings (2015).

Counsel to the Kingdom of the Netherlands regarding the delimitation of a wind-mill park in the North Sea.

Counsel to the Democratic Republic of Congo in annulment proceedings in ICSID Case No. ARB/99/7, Patrick Mitchell v. Democratic Republic of Congo (2004-2006).

Counsel to the Council of the Western European Union and its former Member States

regarding the closure of the organisation and succession to its residual rights and duties.

Counsel to the Kingdom of Belgium in the Iron Rhine Arbitration (Kingdom of Belgium v. Kingdom of the Netherlands), PCA Case No. 2003-02.

Counsel to the Kingdom of Belgium in Mukeshimana a.o. v. Belgian State before the Belgian courts (tort liability regarding the Rwanda genocide).

Counsel to the Kingdom of Belgium in Touax and Touax Rom v. Belgium. Proceedings in the Belgian courts on a claim for damages for Belgium’s participation in the NATO air strikes in the Kosovo.

Expert witness on issues of the law of treaties before the Svea Court of Appeal in the annulment proceedings of Petrobart Ltd. v. Republic of Kyrgyzstan (2006).