Joshua Paine

Joshua (Josh) Paine is Associate Professor in International Law at the University of Bristol, with expertise in international investment law and policy, international trade law, and international dispute settlement. His first book, The Functions of International Adjudication and International Environmental Litigation (Cambridge University Press 2024), was awarded 2nd prize in the 2024 Society of Legal Scholars Brazier book prize for Outstanding Mid-Career Scholarship and an Honourable Mention in the 2025 Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law Book Prize. For his research on a climate carve-out for investment treaties, Josh was awarded (with co-author Elizabeth Sheargold) the 2023 John H Jackson Prize of the Journal of International Economic Law. Josh has published widely in leading peer-reviewed journals and in edited volumes. Josh has presented his research at major events involving policymakers, including twice at the OECD investment treaty conference and at the European Commission. He has given oral evidence to the Commons International Trade Committee and his written evidence has been cited extensively in reports of the International Trade Committee and House of Lords International Agreements Committee. Josh is a member of the ISDS Academic Forum, UNCTAD’s Multi-Stakeholder Platform on IIA Reform, and has participated as an observer in sessions of UNCITRAL Working Group III on ISDS reform.