Dr Anil Yilmaz Vastardis

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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 873069
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Location
5S.6.3, Colchester Campus
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Academic support hours
Tuesday 14:00-16:00
Profile
Biography
Anil is a Senior Lecturer at 糖心Vlog Law School and Human Rights Centre. She is also an Honorary Associate Professor at Warwick Law School based at the GLOBE Centre, a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, at the University of Cambrige and a non-practising lawyer at the Istanbul Bar Association. She holds a law degree from Marmara University, an LLM in International Trade Law and a PhD in Law from the 糖心Vlog. Anil co-directs the 糖心Vlog Business and Human Rights Project. Her main research interests are in the fields of international investment law and business and human rights. She teaches and researches in the area of business, investment and human rights. Her research brings together strands of corporate law, international investment law, human rights law, labour law and tort law examining how these areas can and should interact so as to operationalise human rights standards in the modern business context. She has published works in leading international law journals and edited collections on parent-subsidiary relationships in the business and human rights context, non-financial reporting, duty of care in supply chain relationships, human rights in investment contracts and the embedded inequalities in the investment treaty regime. Her recent book 鈥楾he Nationality of Corporate Investors under International Investment Law鈥 was published with Hart Publishing in 2020.
Appointments
糖心Vlog
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Senior Lecturer, 糖心Vlog Law School, 糖心Vlog (1/10/2020 - present)
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Director of Postgraduate Research, 糖心Vlog Law School, 糖心Vlog (1/1/2023 - present)
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, 糖心Vlog Law School, 糖心Vlog (15/1/2019 - 30/9/2021)
Other academic
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Lecturer, 糖心Vlog Law School, 糖心Vlog (1/9/2015 - 30/9/2020)
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Honorary Associate Professor, Warwick Law School, University of Warwick (1/10/2024 - 1/10/2027)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Business and human rights
International Investment Law
Settlement of international disputes
Corporate law
International investment and human rights
International investment law, environmental protection and climate change
Conferences and presentations
A Yilmaz-Vastardis and R Chambers, A proposal for dealing with the separate corporate personality challenge in the B&HR treaty: Could the IIL model inspire the treaty makers? presented at the 2016 ASIL Human Rights Interest Group Roundtable on Business and Human Rights, 29 March 2016, George Washington University
Washington D.C., United States, 2016
A Yilmaz-Vastardis The impact of international investment arbitration tribunals jurisdictional decisions on their perceived legitimacy presented at the Workshop on Empirical International Law, 10 December 2010, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge
Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2010
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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International Economic Law and Contemporary Challenges (LW917)
Current supervision
Previous supervision

Degree subject: Law
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 20/1/2025

Degree type: Occasional Postgraduate Study
Awarded date: 22/7/2024

Degree subject: Human Rights and Research Methods
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 27/6/2024

Degree subject: Law
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 17/2/2022
Publications
Journal articles (10)
Bueno, N., Yilmaz Vastardis, A. and Ngueuleu Djeuga, I., (2023). . Journal of World Investment and Trade. 24 (2), 179-216
Yilmaz Vastardis, A. and Van Harten, G., (2023). . Journal of World Investment and Trade. 24 (3), 363-371
Yilmaz Vastardis, A., Eslava, L., Alessandrini, D. and del Pilar Cortes Nieto, J., (2022). . Journal of International Economic Law. 25 (2), 207-223
Yilmaz Vastardis, A. and Chambers, R., (2021). . Chicago Journal of International Law. 21 (2), 323-366
Yilmaz Vastardis, A. and Chambers, R., (2018). . International and Comparative Law Quarterly. 67 (2), 389-423
Terwindt, C., Leader, S., Yilmaz Vastardis, A. and Wright, J., (2018). . Journal of European Tort Law. 8 (3), 261-296
Yilmaz Vastardis, A., (2018). . London Review of International Law. 6 (2), 279-297
Chambers, R. and Yilmaz Vastardis, A., (2015). . Human Rights and International Legal Discourse. 10
Yilmaz, A., (2013). Case Note on ICSID Case No ARB/10/5: Tidewater Inc v Venezuela, Decision on Jurisdiction. Australian International Law Journal. 20, 197-202
Yilmaz, A., (2012). . International Arbitration Law Review. 15 (5), 172-185
Books (1)
Yilmaz Vastardis, A., (2020). . Hart Publishing. 9781509933600
Book chapters (8)
Yilmaz Vastardis, A., (2024). The inherent incompatibility of international investment law with a just green transition. In: Global Corporations and Sustainability. Editors: Choudhury, B., . Edward Elgar
Yilmaz Vastardis, A. and Chambers, R., (2023). Guiding Principle 3: General State Regulatory and Policy Functions. In: The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: A Commentary. Editors: Choudhury, B., . Edward Elgar Publishing. 28- 34. 978 1 80037 566 6
Yilmaz Vastardis, A., (2023). . In: Rethinking Investment Law: Perspectives and Prospects. Editors: Schneiderman, D. and Van Harten, G., . Oxford University Press. 38- 63. 0192871080. 9780192871084
Yilmaz Vastardis, A., (2021). . In: Investors鈥 International Law. Editors: Ho, J. and Sattorova, M., . Hart Publishing. 89- 124. 9781509937929
Yilmaz Vastardis, A., (2020). . In: The Oxford Handbook of International Arbitration. Editors: Schultz, T. and Ortino, F., . Oxford University Press. 9780198796190
Yilmaz-Vastardis, A. and Van Ho, T., (2016). Integrating Human Rights into the Extractive Industries: How Investment Contracts Can Achieve Protection. In: Legal Studies on Access and Benefit-sharing. 225- 244
Yilmaz Vastardis, A. and Van Ho, T., (2015). . In: Natural Resources Grabbing: An International Law Perspective. Editors: Romanin Jacur, F., Bonfanti, A. and Seatzu, F., . Brill Nijhoff. 223- 244. 9789004305663
Farah, Y. and Yilmaz Vastardis, A., (2015). . In: Research Handbook on EU Private International Law. Editors: Stone, P. and Farah, Y., . Edward Elgar. 23- 67. 9781781954553
Reports and Papers (4)
Yilmaz Vastardis, A., Tan, C. and Erdem Turkelli, G., (2023). Evaluation of the Just Energy Transition Investment Plan (JET-IP)
Lawrence, J., Van Ho, T. and Yilmaz Vastardis, A., (2020). EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment: A Scoping Study
Leader, SL. and Yilmaz Vastardis, A., (2018).
Van Ho, T., Yilmaz Vastardis, A., Leader, S., Michalowski, S., Netto, U., Danesi, R., Ong, D. and Wlodarczak, B., (2011).
Other (1)
Yilmaz Vastardis, A., Tan, C. and Erdem Turkelli, G., (2024).Financing sustainable just energy transitions: challenges and ways forward,T20
Grants and funding
2024
Equity and the Global Climate Finance Architecture: An Evaluation of the Just Transition Partnership (JETP) Framework
British Academy
2023
Supporting the Ukrainian National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption
Open Society Foundation
Embedding Human Rights in the Global Climate Finance Architecture: An Evaluation of the Just Energy Transition Partnership Framework
糖心Vlog (QR Impact Fund)
Equity and the Global Climate Finance Architecture: An Evaluation of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) Framework
University of Warwick F
2020
Precarious Work and Access to Healthcare and Social Security in Colombia: Targeted Measures During the Covid-19 Global Emergency
糖心Vlog (GCRF)
Scoping study regarding the CAI and potential risks for European interests
Heinrich-B锟絣l-Stiftung e.V. (Heinrich B锟絣l Foundation)
2019
The International Economic Law (IEL) Collective: Teaching and Writing Workshops
Society of Legal Scholars
Contact
Academic support hours:
Tuesday 14:00-16:00