Marcin J. Menkes

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Poland, Adwokat

Achievements

Research scholar at Michigan Law School (USA)
Visiting fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (Cambridge University, UK)
Visiting fellow at Cornell Law School (USA)
Visiting researcher/lecturer at Università di Torino, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Università di Bologna (Italy)

Languages

English
French
Polish
Italian
Spanish (limited)

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Overview

Prof. SGH dr hab. Marcin J. Menkes is Of Counsel at Queritius. For more than 10 years, Prof. Menkes has combined his work as a full-time academic with legal and foreign policy consultancy. His professional interests include investment arbitration, international monetary and financial matters, sovereign debt restructuring, sovereign immunities, and economic sanctions. Prof. Menkes has published four books, more than 100 scientific articles, and more than 1,000 blog posts, newspaper articles, etc. He regularly appears at international conferences and in public media.

He is a professor at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), where he also founded the post-graduate studies Law & Economics of the Capital Market and Law & Economics for In-house Counsels. He was appointed visiting fellowships at some of the best universities in France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Prof. Menkes is a member of numerous professional organisations, including the International Law Association Committee on the Rule of Law in International Investment Law, and the Investor-States Dispute Settlement Academic Forum. As part of his civic activity, he founded and co-manages the International Law Review blog (Poland), and serves as a judge in moot court competitions.

The quality of his work has been repeatedly recognised with awards of prestigious research scholarships.

Arbitration

Litigation

Publications

Education

Counsel to a construction company in international arbitration regarding energy infrastructure in the Baltic states under SCC rules
Advisor to a foreign pharmaceutical company in an investment dispute regarding adverse changes in the law
Advisor to foreign investor in Scandinavia in an international investment dispute over adverse changes in the law
Advisor to foreign investor in Polish energy sector in an international disputes over adverse changes in the law
Advisor to a company in the transportation sector in in the Caucasus region in an international investment dispute over adverse changes in the law
Counsel to a Polish FMCG producer in an international dispute regarding export to MENA

Counsel in an international construction dispute related to a foreign investment in the Polish energy sector
Counsel to a company in a dispute with public administration over Covid-19 related measures
Advisor to a Scandinavian company in an international dispute regarding an adverse review of a double-taxation treaty
Advisor to a company in a sea mining dispute
Pro bono counsel in human rights litigation before domestic courts and the European Court of Human Rights

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Monographs, Commentary, Manual (in Polish)

Introduction to International Economic Law (co-author), CH Beck, Warsaw 2016
Economic Governance in Public International Law, CH Beck, Warsaw 2016
State Immunity from Jurisdiction and Execution. A Commentary to the UN Convention on Jurisdictional Immunities of States and Their Property and European Convention on State Immunity, Oficyna Wydawnicza SGH, Warsaw 2013
Economic sanctions—international law analysis, Dom Wydawniczy Duet, Toruń 2011

Recent publications (in English)

Investment protection. Country Report: Poland [in:] K. Nadakavukaren, R. Polanco (eds.), Edward Elgar Encyclopedia of International Economic Law, Edward Elgar (forthcoming)
ISDS Reform: Financing of the Permanent Investment (Appeals) Body, Journal of International Dispute Settlement vol. 12, iss. 3 (2021), pp. 462-476
Screening of Foreign Investments: Promises and Perils of New Technologies [in:] C. Nagy (ed.), World trade and local public interest: trade liberalization and national regulatory sovereignty, Springer (due in May 2020)
Rule of Law in International Monetary and Financial Law: Reviving Old Spectres, European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2019
The Legality of US Investment Sanctions on Iran: Challenges and Opportunities for Pax Americana without the US, Canadian Yearbook of International Law vol. 56(2019), pp. 328-364
Legality of the EU Trade Sanctions Imposed on the Russian Federation under WTO Law [in:] W. Czaplinski, S. Debski, R. Tarnogorski, K. Wierczynska (eds.), The Case of Crimea’s Annexation under International Law, Scholar, Warsaw: 2017 (co-author)

Habilitation (Dr hab.) in law, Jagiellonian University, 2018
D. in law, Jagiellonian University, 2011
D. studies in economics, Warsaw School of Economics, 2011
A. in law, University of Warsaw, 2008