Natasa Rajkovic

Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Period of stay: 28 April 2025 - 4 July 2025

Contact: natasa.rajkovic@upf.edu

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Profile: 

Natasa is a Visiting Scholar specializing in international investment law and arbitration. She is currently a PhD researcher at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, where she does her PhD under the supervision of Ángel José Rodrigo Hernández and Santiago Ripol Carulla. She holds an LLM in Oil, Gas and Mining Law with Distinction from Nottingham Trent University and a Bachelor of Laws from the Union University in Belgrade. Prior to commencing her PhD, she worked in law firms as a trainee solicitor and intern and was an intern at the Energy Charter Secretariat in Brussels.

Research Area:

International investment law, international dispute settlement, international environmental law

Research Title:

Investor-State Dispute Settlement and the Energy Transition: A Call for the Introduction of the Doctrine of Precedent?

Research Outline:

The overall objective of my PhD thesis is to analyse the effect the introduction of the doctrine of precedent could have on improving the investor-State dispute settlement system (ISDS) in general and in the context of the energy transition. The thesis argues that the doctrine of precedent would be a suitable mechanism for overcoming the identified criticism of the ISDS system, as well as a missing piece of the puzzle in the legal frameworks through which the system’s reform should be considered.

Publications:

-N Rajković, ‘The Gem Hidden behind Predictability: Discussing Efficiency in and of Investment Arbitration’ (2024) 15 Pravni zapisi 524 (DOI: 10.5937/pravzap15-53313)
-N Rajković, ‘The Danger of the Interpretation of Facts: Legal Uncertainty in the Spanish Saga Cases’ (2024) 13 Laws 1 (https://doi.org/10.3390/laws13030027)

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