Protecting our Global Commons through International Legal Means

• Represents a Latin American State in a dispute concerning the violation of the law on diplomatic relations.
• Represents a Latin American State in a dispute concerning the violation of the law on diplomatic asylum.
• Represents a Latin American State in a dispute concerning sovereignty over small geographical features in the Gulf of Honduras.
• Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change (Request for Advisory Opinion of the UN General Assembly). Represented the Dominican Republic in the advisory proceeding concerning the international obligations of States to ensure the protection of the climate system and other parts of the environment from the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions, and legal consequences arising from such obligations.
• Republic of The Gambia v. Republic of Myanmar. Represents The Gambia in a dispute seeking to hold Myanmar responsible for the genocide perpetrated against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
• Republic of Equatorial Guinea v. Republic of Gabon. Represented Equatorial Guinea against Gabon in a dispute concerning their territorial and maritime border, and sovereignty over the islands in the Bay of Corisco.
• Democratic Republic of Congo v. Republic of Uganda. Represented Uganda in the reparations phase for damages derived from the armed activities carried out by Uganda in the territory of the DRC.
• Federal Republic of Somalia v. Republic of Kenya.Member of the team that represented Somalia in a dispute against Kenya relating to the Parties’ maritime boundary in the Indian Ocean.

• Request for an Advisory Opinion submitted by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (Request for Advisory Opinion submitted to the Tribunal). Member of the team that represented the Republic of Mozambique and the Republic of Sierra Leone in the advisory proceeding concerning the adverse consequences of climate change to the marine environment.
• Swiss Confederation v. Federal Republic of Nigeria. Represented Nigeria in the provisional measures phase of the proceedings relating to the detention of a vessel with Swiss flag in the exclusive economic zone of Nigeria.
• Republic of Ghana v. Republic of Côte d’Ivoire. Represented Ghana in a dispute concerning the delimitation of the maritime boundary with Côte d’Ivoire in the Gulf of Guinea, in an arbitration initiated under Annex VII of UNCLOS before a Special Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.

• Represents a Latin American State in an arbitration before the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris relating to the shipbuilding sector.
• Ritika Mehta, Vinita Agarwal and Prenay Agarwal v. Oriental Republic of Uruguay (II). Represents Uruguay in a United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) arbitration before the Permanent Court of Arbitration, initiated for a second time by the Claimants under the Bilateral Investment Treaty between Uruguay and the United Kingdom, following the annulment of the first arbitral tribunal’s award.
• Represents a European State in an UNCITRAL contract-based arbitration administered by the Permanent Court of Arbitration related to the energy sector.
• Latin American Regional Aviation Holding v. Oriental Republic of Uruguay. Represented Uruguay in an arbitration initiated before the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes under the Panama-Uruguay Bilateral Investment Treaty in relation to the collapse of PLUNA, Uruguay’s national airline company.
• Represented a Latin American State in an ICSID arbitration relating to an airport concession.
• Ritka Mehta, Vinita Agarwal, and Pranay Agarwal v. Oriental Republic of Uruguay. Represented Uruguay in an UNCITRAL arbitration before the Permanent Court of Arbitration initiated under the Bilateral Investment Treaty between Uruguay and the United Kingdom, concerning a large-scale iron ore extraction project scale which Claimants valued at $3.47 billion.
• Niko Exploration (Block 9) Ltd. v. Bangladesh and Bangladesh Oil and Gas Mineral Corp. Represented the Bangladeshi State-owned oil and gas company in a contract-based ICSID arbitration proceedings.
• Niko Resources v. Republic of Bangladesh, Bapex & Petrobangla. Represented Bangladesh and its state-owned entities in an ICSID contract-based arbitration against a Canadian company regarding two gas explosions that resulted in unprecedented environmental and public health damages in Bangladesh’s history.
• Niko Resources (Bangladesh) Ltd. v. Bangladesh Oil Gas and Mineral Corporation (Petrobangla), Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited (Bapex). Represented Petrobangla and Bangladesh in an ICSID annulment proceeding in respect of a payment claim award rendered in favor of Niko Resources Ltd.
• Louis Dreyfus Armateurs v. Republic of India. Represented India in an UNCITRAL arbitration initiated by a French investor under the Bilateral Investment Treaty between France and India, concerning the supply and cargo handling contract at the Port of Kolkata.
• Corporación Dominicana de Empresas Eléctricas Estatales (CDEEE). Represented de CDEEE against claims presented by a consortium led by a Brazilian company relating to the construction and operation of a thermoelectric plant. Member of the team that participated in a parallel mediation process that managed to resolve the controversy and ensure the delivery of the plant under favorable conditions for the Corporation.

• Representation of asylum seekers in France before the Cour Nationale du Droit d’Asile. Pro-bono project in collaboration with Amnesty International France.
• Representation before the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States of America. Counsel to a private person affected by the sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council.

     •    Torres Camprubí, A. (2016). Statehood under Water: Challenges of Sea-Level Rise to the Continuity of Pacific Island States, Brill/Nijhoff.

• Torres Camprubí, A. (2025). “El cambio climático ante las Cortes y tribunales internacionales” [Climate Change before International Courts and Tribunals], in Cursos de Derecho Internacional y Relaciones Internacionales Vitoria-Gasteiz, ed. Tirant lo Blanch.
• Torres Camprubí, A. (2025). “La estatalidad frente al desafío del cambio climático” [Statehood and the Challenge of Climate Change], in Curso de Derecho Internacional del Comité Jurídico Interamericano, ed. Organización de Estados Americanos.
• Torres Camprubí, A. (2023). “The Concept of Security: Brief Genealogy of an Ambiguous Symbol”, in J. Hillebrand Pohl et al. The Investment Weapon, Springer Studies in Law and Geoeconomics.
• Torres Camprubí, A. (2022). “Les impacts de l’élévation du niveau de la mer sur la sécurité internationale: une reconstruction du ‘récit sécuritaire’ du changement climatique” [The Impacts of Sea-level Rise on International Security: a Reconstruction of the “Security Narrative” on Climate Change], in V. Boré-Eveno ed. Élévation du droit de la mer et droit international: de l'adaptation à l'action [Sea-Level Rise and International Law: from Adaptation to Action], Editions Pedone.
• Hioureas C. & Torres Camprubí, A. (2020). “Legal and Political Considerations with respect to the Disappearance of States”, in T. Heidar ed. New Knowledge and Changing Circumstances in the Law of the Sea, Brill.
• Torres Camprubí, A. (2019). “Challenges of Sea-Level Rise to the Continuity of Low-Lying Island States and Measures to Address the Loss of Maritime Spaces”, 112th Annual Conference of the American Society of International Law, Cambridge University Press.
• Torres Camprubí, A. & Schimmel, D. (2019). “Commerce international et responsabilité sociale et environnementale: des référentiels aux normes?” [International Trade, Social and Environmental Responsibility: a Normative Reference System?], chapter in Encyclopedic volume Le Lamy Contrats Internationaux, Tome 1, sections 101-104, Wolters Kluwer.
• Torres Camprubí, A. (2018). “Securitization of Climate Change: the Inter-regional Institutional Voyage”, Oxford Yearbook of International Environmental Law, pp. 1-24.
• Freestone D., Vidas D. & Torres Camprubí, A. (2017). “Sea Level Rise and Impacts on Maritime Zones and Limits: the Work of the ILA Committee on International Law and Sea Level Rise”, Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law, vol. 5: 1, pp. 5-35.
• Prost M. & Torres Camprubí A. (2012). “Against Fairness? International Environmental Law, Disciplinary Bias and Pareto Justice”, Leiden Journal of International Law, vol. 25 (2012): nº 2, pp. 379-396.
• Espósito C. & Torres Camprubí A. (2011). “Cambio climático y derechos humanos: el desafío de los ‘nuevos refugiados’” [Climate Change and Human Rights: the Challenge of the ‘New Refugees’], Relaciones internacionales (GERI-UAM), vol. 17, pp. 64-87.
• Torres Camprubí, A. (2010). El mecanismo para la reducción de la deforestación y la degradación forestal y para el fomento de los sumideros de carbono (REDD+): Nota sobre un innovador instrumento de mitigación” [The Reduction of Deforestation and Forest Degradation Mechanism (REDD+): Note on an Innovative Mitigation Tool], Revista Catalana de Dret Ambiental, vol. 1 (octubre de 2010): nº 2, pp. 1-24.

• United Nations Development Program (Dominican Republic), Invited Speaker to the Workshop of UNDP’s Project “Activities to Support the Ratification of the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (EA-BBNJ) PIMS-10023”, presentation on “The BBNJ Agreement and Its Importance: Global and Regional Context, Structure, and Pillars of the Agreement” (2025).
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of the Dominican Republic, Invited Expert to the High-Level Informative Session on the BBNJ Agreement, presentation on “El Acuerdo BBNJ:  Pieza normativa clave para la protección integral del Océano y el desarrollo progresivo del Derecho internacional del mar para las generaciones presentes y futuras” [The BBNJ Agreement: a Key Regulatory Instrument for a Comprehensive Protection of the Ocean and the Progressive Development of the International Law of the Sea for Present and Future Generations] (2025).
• African Union, Invited Expert to the Preparatory Workshop for the ICJ Hearings on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change, presentation on “Scope and Forms of Reparation in the Context of Climate Change” (2024).
• Permanent Council of the Organization of American States, Invited expert on “The Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on Statehood in the Inter-American Regional Context”, addressed at the Extraordinary Session on “The Consequences of Sea-Level Rise and its Legal Implications” (2024).
• International Foundation for the Law of the Sea, Invited Lecturer to IFLOS Summer Academy on “Climate Change and the Law of the Sea” (2024).
• Universidad del País Vasco, Invited Lecturer to the Summer Course on International Law and International Relations Vitoria-Gasteiz, course on “El cambio climático ante las Cortes y tribunales internacionales” [Climate Change before International Courts and Tribunals] (2024).
• Université Paris Nanterre, Centre de Droit international de Nanterre, Invited Lecturer to the Summer Academy, course on “Droit des changements climatiques et état actuel des négociations” [International Climate Change Law and Current State of Negotiations] (2024).
• Université de Rennes, Faculté de Droit, Invited Lecturer to the Doctoral Seminar on “Les cours et tribunaux internationaux face aux défis existentiels de l’humanité et de la planète” [International Courts and Tribunals Facing the Existential Challenges to Humankind and the Planet] (2024).
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, the Government of The Bahamas & Australian National Center for Ocean Resources and Security, Invited Commentator on UNCLOS due publicity obligations to the Capacity-Building Workshop for Caribbean States on “Baselines, Limits and Boundaries in a Changing Ocean: Delivering Certainty and Stability” (2024).
• Diplomatic Academy of the Dominican Republic (Instituto de Educación Superior en Formación Diplomática y Consular), Invited Lecturer on the participation of the Dominican Republic in the advisory proceeding before the International Court of Justice on obligations of States in respect of climate change (2024).
• Université Paris Nanterre, Invited Lecturer on International Climate Change Law as part of the University Diploma on “Droit des énergies en transition, de l’investissement et de l’arbitrage international” [Law on Energy Transition, Investment and International Arbitration] (2024).
• Diplomatic Academy of Guatemala Antonio José de Irisarri, Invited Lecturer on “La estatalidad frente al desafío del cambio climático y el aumento del nivel del mar” [Statehood in the Face of the Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise Challenge], as part of the III Module of the Special Diplomatic Course “AJPACH ‘WAAL” (2023).
• Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam & Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and British Embassy in Hanoi, 7th Ocean Dialogue, presentation on “Securing the Continuity of Low-lying Island States through the Protection of Maritime Entitlements: a Reflection on Latest Development” (2021).
• Permanent Mission of the Principality of Liechtenstein before the United Nations & Princeton University, presentation on “Loss of Statehood due to Sea-Level Rise” as part of the Series “Climate, State and Sovereignty: Self-Determination and Sea-Level Rise” (2020).
• Université Libre de Bruxelles, Invited Lecturer for the post-graduate course on “Droit international et crise climatique” [International law and the Climate Crisis] (2020).
• Organization of American States (OAS), Invited Lecturer on “La condición de Estado frente al desafío del cambio climático” [Statehood in the Face of the Climate Change Challenge], as part of the Summer Course on Public International Law organized by the Inter-American Juridical Committee (2019).
• Nippon Programme of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Invited Lecturer on “Climate Change and the Law of the Sea” (2019).

• Peruvian Society of International Law, Invited speaker on “State Obligations in Respect of Climate Change Following ITLOS Advisory Opinion of 31 May 2024”, as part of the Workshop on “Climate Change from an International Legal Perspective” (2024).
• International Law Association, 81st Conference (Athens), Invited speaker to the panel on “Moving Dispute Resolution Forward” (2024).
• Podcast “Hablemos de Derecho Internacional”, Episode No. 77: “El naufragio de la estatalidad: los impactos del aumento del nivel del mar en la condición de Estado” [Sinking Statehood: the Impacts of Sea-Level Rise] (2022), available at: https://lnkd.in/efI-48ux.
• Common European Law on Investment Screening (CELIS Institute), presentation on “Delimiting the Concept of National Security”, as part of the roundtable on “National Security as a Limit to Sovereign-Driven Investment” (2021).
• Centre de Droit Maritime et Océanique de l’Université de Nantes, presentation on “Les impacts de l’élévation du niveau de la mer sur la sécurité internationale” [The Impacts of Sea-Level Rise on International Security] (2021).
• Academy of European Law, ERA High-Level Conference on Investment Screening in the European Union, presentation on “The Concept of Security: Reconstructing the Origins, Scope and Meaning of an Ambiguous Symbol” (2020).
• Queen Mary University of London (Center for Small States)/Wilmerhale, presentation on “Dispute Resolution and Sinking Island States”, as part of the panel on Environmental Dispute Resolution and Small States Conference (2018).
• Law of the Sea Institute of Iceland, co-speaker on “Legal and Political Considerations with respect to the Disappearance of States”, as part of the International Conference on New Knowledge and Changing Circumstances in the Law of the Sea (2018).
• American Society for International Law, presentation on “Rising Sea Levels and Disappearing Territories: Implications for Statehood, Migrants and International Law”, 112th Annual Meeting on International Law in Practice (2018).