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Dr Crina Baltag, FCIArb, PhD, LLM, MSc

Crina

Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Arbitration and Dispute Resolution

Email: c.m.baltag@qmul.ac.uk
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-crina-baltag-fciarb-44139266/

Profile

Dr Crina Baltag has more than twenty years of experience in international arbitration and dispute resolution, serving as an academic, counsel, and arbitrator. She is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) at Queen Mary University of London, where she teaches international commercial arbitration, investment arbitration, construction arbitration, and international commercial litigation within the Centre for Commercial Law Studies and the School of International Arbitration.

Dr Baltag chairs the Academic Council and serves on the Executive Committee of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration. She is also a member of the Board of the SCC Arbitration Institute, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and Director of the Global Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators).

Her previous roles include Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford (Faculty of Law and Lady Margaret Hall College) and Associate Professor in International Arbitration at Stockholm University. Earlier in her career, she served as Secretary General of the AmCham Brazil Arbitration and Mediation Center in São Paulo.

Dr Baltag is regularly appointed as arbitrator in both institutional and ad hoc proceedings. A qualified attorney-at-law and member of the Romanian and Bucharest Bar, she received the Prize for Contribution to the Development of Romanian Arbitration Law and Practice from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania (October 2023).

She is frequently engaged as an expert in international commercial and investment law and in dispute resolution reform, including by: T20 (G20 engagement group) on investor–state dispute settlement reform and trade/investment cooperation; the International Bar Association, for the 2024 Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration; and by leading arbitration institutions, including the SCC Arbitration Institute, on revisions of their rules.

Dr Baltag is Managing Editor of the Kluwer Arbitration Blog and serves on the editorial boards of several prominent journals, including the Journal of International Arbitration, Brill Research Perspectives in International Investment Law and Arbitration, and Bloomsbury’s Global Energy Law and Policy. Since 2018, she has been a delegate observer to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), contributing actively to Working Group III on investor–state dispute settlement reform, including work on a multilateral investment court system.

Dr Baltag holds a PhD in International Arbitration from Queen Mary University of London, an LLM in International Commercial Arbitration Law from Stockholm University, an M.Sc. in International Business from the Academy of Economic Studies (Romania), and an LLB from the University of Bucharest. She also earned a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education (UK) and is a Fellow of Advance HE.

Dr Baltag is fluent in English, Portuguese, and Romanian, has working knowledge of French and Swedish and can read Spanish and Italian.

Postgraduate Teaching

Research

Research Interests:

Dr Crina Baltag’s research focuses on international commercial and investment arbitration.

Publications

Books

  • Reforming Arbitration Reform: Emerging Voices, New Strategies, Evolving Values, Crina Baltag and Mark Feldman (eds.), [Wolters Kluwer, 2025, ISBN 9789403543277].
  • International Investment Law and Investor-State Disputes in Central Asia: Emerging Issues, Kiran Nasir Gore, Elijah Putilin, Kabir A.N. Duggal, Crina Baltag (eds.), [Wolters Kluwer, 2022, ISBN 9789403545912].
  • Investors, States, and Arbitrators in the Crosshairs of International Investment Law and Environmental Protection, Crina Baltag and Ylli Dautaj (co-authors), [BRILL, 2020, ISBN 9789004438262].
  • The Future of Investment Arbitration in the EU. Intra-EU BITs, the Energy Charter Treaty, and the Multilateral Investment Court, Crina Baltag and Ana Stanic (eds.) [Wolters Kluwer, 2020, ISBN 9789403512938].
  • Construction Arbitration in Central and Eastern Europe: Contemporary Issues, Crina Baltag and Cosmin Vasile (eds.) [Wolters Kluwer, 2019, ISBN 9789403503318].
  • Finances in International Arbitration. Liber Amicorum for Patricia Shaughnessy, Sherlin Tung, Fabricio Fortese and Crina Baltag (eds.) [Wolters Kluwer, 2019, ISBN 9789403506340].
  • ICSID Convention after Fifty Years: Unsettled Issues, Crina Baltag (ed.), [Wolters Kluwer, 2017, ISBN: 9789041166333].
  • The Energy Charter Treaty: The Notion of Investor, Crina Baltag (author), [Wolters Kluwer, 2012, ISBN: 9789041134288].

Selected articles

  • Recoverability of In-House Counsel Costs before ICC Arbitral Tribunals, in [2023] ICC Dispute Resolution Bulletin 1, 56-62 [ICC].
  • Recent Trends in Investment Arbitration on the Right to Regulate, Environment, Health and Corporate Social Responsibility: Too Much or Too Little?, co-authored, [2023] ICSID Review - Foreign Investment Law Journal 38(2), 381-421 [Oxford University Press].
  • Parties’ Duty of Curiosity in Sports Arbitration: Replacing Disclosure or Enforcing Due Diligence?, in [2022] BCDR International Arbitration Review, Volume 9, Issue 1 [Wolters Kluwer]
  • Conflicts or Opportunities? Arbitrators’ Previous Cases and Their Future Appointments, [2022] 7(2) BCDR International Arbitration Review 2020, 363-382 [Wolters Kluwer]
  • 2022 ICSID Regulations and Rules: Towards Efficiency and Consistency in Investment Arbitration Proceedings, co-authored, [2022] XIX Revista Brasileira de Arbitragem no. 75, 163-186 [Wolters Kluwer]
  • Article V(1)(e) of the New York Convention: To Enforce or Not to Enforce Set Aside Arbitral Awards?, [2022] 39(3) Journal of International Arbitration, 397-410 [Wolters Kluwer]
  • Empirical Analysis of National Courts Vacatur and Enforcement of International Commercial Arbitration Awards, co-authored, [2022] 39(3) Journal of International Arbitration, 299-330 [Wolters Kluwer].
  • Promoting, Regulating and Enforcing Human Rights Through International Investment Law and ISDS, co-authored, [2021] 45 Fordham International Law Journal 1, 1-50.
  • The Role of Amici Curiae in Light of Recent Developments in Investment Treaty Arbitration: Legitimizing the System?, [2020], ICSID Review - Foreign Investment Law Journal, vol. 35(1), 1-31 [Oxford University Press].
  • Investment Arbitration and Police Powers: Emerging Issues, [2020], European Investment Law and Arbitration Review Online, volume 5(1), 392-299 [BRILL].
  • Duration of Investor-State Dispute Settlement Proceedings, co-authored, [2020] Journal of World Investment & Trade 21, 300–335 [BRILL].
  • Reforming the ISDS System: In Search of a Balanced Approach?, Contemporary Asia Arbitration Journal, [2019] Contemporary Asia Arbitration Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2.

Supervision

Dr. Crina Baltag is interested in supervising PhD theses in the areas of international commercial arbitration, investment arbitration, the interaction between courts and arbitration, construction law and arbitration, as well as energy law and arbitration. She also welcomes proposals that explore interdisciplinary approaches that connect arbitration with broader questions of public international law.

Public Engagement

Dr Baltag chairs the Academic Council and serves on the Executive Committee of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration. She is also a member of the Board of the SCC Arbitration Institute, and Director of the Global Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators).

Dr Baltag is Managing Editor of the Kluwer Arbitration Blog and serves on the editorial boards of several prominent journals, including the Journal of International Arbitration, Brill Research Perspectives in International Investment Law and Arbitration, and Bloomsbury’s Global Energy Law and Policy. Since 2018, she has been a delegate observer to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), contributing actively to Working Group III on investor–state dispute settlement reform, including work on a multilateral investment court system.

Dr Baltag is listed as arbitrator with various arbitration institutions, including, the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), the International Centre for Dispute Resolution of the American Arbitration Association (ICDR-AAA), the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board International (KCAB International), the Thailand International Arbitration Centre (THAC), the Mauritius International Arbitration Centre (MIAC), the Court of International Commercial Arbitration-Romanian Chamber of Commerce (CCIR-Romania), Abu Dhabi International Arbitration Centre (arbitrateAD), Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC) etc.

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