Dr Federica Paddeu

Abogado (cum laude), Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas - Venezuela; LLM in international law (first class honours, Clive Parry Prize for International Law) and PhD (Yorke Prize), University of Cambridge; Post-Graduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PGDipLATHE), University of Oxford.

I am a general international lawyer, and my main research interests are the law of State responsibility, the law on the use of force, and international investment law. I am also interested in the legal theory and practice of exceptions. My work has been published in leading international law journals, including the British Yearbook of International Law, the European Journal of International Law and the American Journal of International Law. A monograph based on my PhD dissertation, Justification and Excuse in International Law: Concept and Theory of General Defences, was published by CUP in 2018.

Before arriving at Cambridge, I worked for Baker&McKenzie (Caracas office) as a law-clerk and a paralegal in the criminal law and labour law departments. I am a member of Blackstone Chambers Academic Research Panel.

Admitted to practice in Venezuela, as a member of the Caracas (Distrito Federal) Bar.

Teaching

Supervisions in International Law (Part IB and Part II), and Criminal Law (Part IA)

Director of Studies at Queens’ College (Part IA) & Deputy Senior Tutor

Other appointments and affiliations

European Society of International Law (ESIL) - Member of the Board (2022- )

British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) - Member of the International Law Advisory Panel (2021- )

International Law Association (British Branch) - Director of Studies (2018-2022)

Blackstone Chambers - Member of the Academic Research Panel (2015- )

Scholarships, Fellowships and Awards

2019: CRASSH Early Career Fellowship (Michaelmas term 2019)

2015: Yorke Prize (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge), in recognition of the ‘exceptional quality’ of PhD dissertation ‘which makes a substantial contribution to its field of legal knowledge’

2009-2014: Maria Luisa de Sanchez (Girton College, University of Cambridge) and Cambridge European Trusts Scholar

2008: Clive Parry Prize in International Law (Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge)