Profile

Dr Crina Baltag is Senior Lecturer in International Arbitration at Stockholm University and qualified attorney-at-law since 2004, with extensive practice in various aspects on international dispute resolution, private and public international law.

Crina's academic work includes the leading publications on The Energy Charter Treaty: The Notion of Investor [Wolters Kluwer, 2012]; Construction Arbitration in Central and Eastern Europe: Contemporary Issues [co-editor, Wolters Kluwer, 2019]; Finances in International Arbitration. Liber Amicorum for Patricia Shaughnessy [co-editor, Wolters Kluwer, 2019]; The Future of Investment Treaty Arbitration in the EU [co-editor, Wolters Kluwer, 2020] and numerous publications in leading legal journals and reviews, including on the Denial of Benefits in Investment Law [co-author; Max Planck Encyclopaedia of International Procedural Law , Oxford University Press, 2019].

Crina is member of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Institute (SCC), the editor of Kluwer Arbitration Blog, co-managing editor of ITA Arbitration Report and member of editorial boards of prestigious journals in the field, including of the Journal of International Arbitration. Crina is member of the Member of the Executive Committee and Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) and of the ISDS Academic Forum. Crina is also the vice-Chair of Young ITA. Crina holds a PhD degree in International Arbitration from Queen Mary University of London (UK), LL.M in International Commercial Arbitration Law from Stockholm University (Sweden), M.Sc. in International Business from Academy of Economic Studies (Romania), LL.B. from University of Bucharest (Romania). Crina also holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education (UK) and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.

Crina has been appointed in numerous arbitrations, as sole arbitrator and co-arbitrator under the rules of the ICC, LCIA, SIAC, and CCIR-Romania.