Eleni Methymaki
Biography
Eleni is Departmental Lecturer in Public International Law. Previously, she was Research Associate to the Chair of Public and International Law, Professor Jelena Bäumler, at the Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (2021-2022), Graduate Teaching Assistant for Public International Law (2019-2020) at Oxford, and Research Associate for International Law at the University of Glasgow, School of Law (2016-2018). In November 2022, Eleni was an Erasmus Mundus International Law of Global Security, Peace and Development Visiting Scholar at the University of Tartu, Estonia.
Eleni is also a DPhil in Law candidate at the Faculty of Law and a member of St Catherine's College, her research focusing on the role of domestic law in international adjudication. Her doctoral studies have been generously supported by the Oxford Law Foundation, and she is supervised by Professor Catherine Redgwell and Professor Antonios Tzanakopoulos. She has studied law at the University of Cambridge (LL.M., Class I), University of Glasgow (LL.M. res., dist.), the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (LL.B., dist.; LL.M. in International Legal Studies, dist.), and Freie Universität Berlin. In summer 2018, Eleni participated in the Centre for Studies and Research of the Hague Academy of International Law, where she conducted focused research along with 23 other international law scholars on the topic of International Inspections.
Eleni has published on a range of international law topics, and has edited the 3rd edn of The Statute of the International Court of Justice: A Commentary (OUP 2019; ass't ed) and The Oxford Handbook of the International Law of Global Security (OUP 2021; ass't ed). While at Leuphana University, she contributed to the development of a module on "International Sustainability Law", and as an international law tutor in Oxford she has previously designed and taught a short course on "Political Theory and Ideology in International Law".
Beyond academia, Eleni is experienced in advising states, international organizations, and private parties on international law matters and dispute resolution before domestic and international courts, including the International Court of Justice. She is a Greek qualified lawyer, and has previously practised law as a trainee in the in-house litigation team of a private corporation in Athens (Greece), in the fields of criminal, labour and corporate law.
Since 2016, Eleni has joint responsibility for the UK Materials in International Law (UKMIL) of the British Yearbook of International Law. She is also a researcher at the Athens Public International Law Centre. Previously, she was a member of the editorial team for the OUP Research Track on Public International Law and a general editor for the (then) Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law (2015-2016).
Publications
Journal Article
Methymaki E, ‘Thinking Beyond International Adjudication: Inspections as Instruments of Order Production in the International System’ (2022) 21(3) The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 520
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Apostolaki M and others, ‘United Kingdom Materials on International Law 2016’ (2017) 87(1) British Yearbook of International Law 361
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Book
Methymaki E, The Engagement of Domestic Courts with International Law (A Nollkaemper and others eds., Oxford University Press 2024)
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Geiß C and others, The Oxford Handbook of the International Law of Global Security (Oxford University Press, USA 2021)
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Methymaki E and Tzanakopoulos A, ‘‘Amp Up and Amplify: Defy!’’, The Engagement of Domestic Courts with International Law (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2024)
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Methymaki E, ‘Annex: International Inspections Systems’ in A-L Chaumette and CJ Tams (eds.), International Inspections/Les inspections internationales (Brill 2022)
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Methymaki E, ‘‘“Unity within Diversity?” Commonalities and Differences in International Inspections’ in A-L Chaumette and CJ Tams (eds.), International Inspections/Les inspections internationales (Brill 2022)
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Tams C and Methymaki E, ‘The World Court’s Influence on Contemporary Investment Law’ in H Ruiz Fabri and E Stoppioni (eds.), International Investment Law: An Analysis of the Major Decisions (Hart Publishing 2022)
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Methymaki E and Ozcelik A, ‘Europe’ in R Geiss and others (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the International Law of Global Security (Oxford University Press 2021)
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Methymaki E, ‘Irmgard Marboe, Calculation of Compensation and Damages in International Investment Law, 2nd Edition’ in M Bungenberg and others (eds.), European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2019 (Springer 2020)
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Aznar-Gómez M and Methymaki E, ‘Article 2’, The Statute of the International Court of Justice (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2019)
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Aznar M and Methymaki E, ‘Article 2’ in A Zimmermann and others (eds.), The Statute of the International Court of Justice: A Commentary (3rdrd edn., Oxford University Press 2019)
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Methymaki E and Tzanakopoulos A, ‘Sources and the enforcement of international law: Domestic courts-another brick in the wall?’, The Oxford Handbook of the Sources of International Law (2018)
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Methymaki E and Tzanakopoulos A, ‘Freedom With Their Exception: Jurisdiction and Immunity as Rule and Exception’ (2017)
Tzanakopoulos A and Methymaki E, ‘Sources and the Enforcement of International Law’, The Oxford Handbook of the Sources of International Law (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2017)
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Methymaki E and Tzanakopoulos A, ‘Sources and the Enforcement of International Law: Reflexivity of Sources and Enforcement and the Role of Domestic Courts—Another Brick in the Wall’ in J d’ Aspremont and S Besson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook on the Sources of International Law (Oxford University Press 2017)
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Methymaki E and Tzanakopoulos A, ‘Masters of Puppets? Reassertion of Control through Joint Investment Treaty Interpretation’, Reassertion of Control over the Investment Treaty Regime (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2016)
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Smith H and Methymaki E, ‘Europe’, Universities, Innovation and the Economy (2006)
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Internet publication or blog post
Methymaki E, ‘Rethinking the Domestic and the International through Imogen Saunders’ General Principles as a Source of International Law’ (International Law Agendas - International Law Association Brazil, 10 September 2021)
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Methymaki E and J Tams C, ‘Immunities and Compromissory Clauses: Making Sense of Enrica Lexie (Parts I and II)’ (EJIL:Talk!, 1 August 2020)
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Conference Paper
Verneuil N and others, ‘Identification of a new oxidative stress transcriptional regulator in Enterococcus faecalis’, Dairy Science & Technology (EDP Sciences 2004)
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Case Note
Methymaki E, ‘Prosecutor v Dyilo (Thomas Lubanga), Order pursuant to Rule 103 of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence, Case no ICC-01/04-01/06-3217-tENG, 15 July 2016’ [2017] ICL 1713 (ICC 2016) (case-note)
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Methymaki E, ‘Prosecutor v Lubanga Dyilo (Thomas), Decision establishing general principles governing applications to restrict disclosure pursuant to Rule 81(2) and (4) of the Rules of Procedure and Evidence, Case No ICC-01/04-01/06-108-Corr, 19 May 2006’ [2017] ICL 1505 (ICC 2006) (case-note)
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Methymaki E, ‘Situation on the Registered Vessels of the Union of the Comoros, the Hellenic Republic and the Kingdom of Cambodia, Decision on the admissibility of the Prosecutor’s appeal, Case No ICC-01/13-51 OA, 6 November 2015’ [2016] ICL 1702 (ICC 2015) (case-note)
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Methymaki E, ‘Situation on the Registered Vessels of the Union of the Comoros, the Hellenic Republic and the Kingdom of Cambodia, Decision on the request to review the Prosecutor’s decision not to initiate an investigation, Case No ICC-01/13-34, 16 July 2015’ [2016] ICL 1701 (ICC 2015) (case-note)
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Methymaki E, ‘Situation in Georgia, Decision on the Prosecutor’s request for authorization of an investigation, Case No ICC-01/15-12, 27 January 2016’ [2016] ICL 1703 (ICC 2016) (case-note)
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Other
Methymaki E, ‘Declaration Under Security Council Resolution 9 (1946)’ (2021) Oxford University Press
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Methymaki E and Bartels L, ‘Mexico-Tax Measures on Soft Drinks and Other Beverages, WT/DS308’ (2019) ILR
Methymaki E and Bartels L, ‘Peru- Additional Duty on Import of Certain Agricultural Products, WT/DS457’ (2017) ILR 497