Klara Polackova Van der Ploeg

Klara Polackova Van der Ploeg’s research, for which she received the 2019 SNIS Award, focuses on regulation of collective non-state entities, such as corporations, through international law. This work engages issues of international investment law, business and human rights, international labor law, law on environmental liability, law of the sea, international institutional law and international dispute settlement. She has particular expertise in investor and employer obligations under international treaties and in procedural aspects of investment disputes. Dr Van der Ploeg is also a dual-qualified attorney-at-law who has advised States and private parties on a wide range of public international law and international dispute settlement matters.