Prof Anthea Roberts

Research output

Research output per year 2001 2017 2018 2025

• 32 Other contribution
• 24 General Article
• 21 Article
• 6 Chapter
• 13 More
  • 4 Review article
  • 3 Book
  • 3 Conference contribution
  • 1 Commissioned report
  • 1 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
  • 1 Working paper

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2025

  Insiders and Outsiders: The Role of Human Agents and Networks in System Change

  Forsyth, M. & Roberts, A., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Regulation and Governance.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • System Change 100%
  • Change Agent 100%
  • Theoretical Framework 100%
  • Tuition Fee 50%
• 2023

  From Risk to Resilience: How Economies Can Thrive in a World of Threats

  Roberts, A., Nov 2023, In: Foreign Affairs. 102, 6, p. 123-133 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  7 Citations (Scopus)

• Navigating complexity: globalization narratives in China and the West

  Roberts, A. & Lamp, N., 10 Jan 2023, In: China International Strategy Review. 4, 2, p. 351-366 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Economic Globalization 100%
  • Downward Spiral 33%
  • Spiral 11%
  6 Citations (Scopus)

• Risk, Reward, and Resilience Framework: Integrative Policy Making in a Complex World

  Roberts, A., 7 Mar 2023, In: Journal of International Economic Law. 26, 2, p. 233-265 33 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Policy Making 100%
  • COVID-19 50%
  • China 50%
  • Case Study 50%
  • Interdependence 50%
  7 Citations (Scopus)
• 2022

  Complex Designers and Emergent Design: Reforming the Investment Treaty System

  Roberts, A. & St John, T., 1 Jan 2022, In: American Journal of International Law. 116, 1, p. 96-149 54 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Designer 100%
  • International Instruments 100%
  • Investment Treaty 100%
  • Division 100%
  • Transnational 50%
  18 Citations (Scopus)

• The Originality of Outsiders: Innovation in the Investment Treaty System

  Roberts, A. & St John, T., 1 Nov 2022, In: European Journal of International Law. 33, 4, p. 1153-1181 29 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Investors 100%
  • International Instruments 100%
  • Conflict Resolution 100%
  • USA 33%
  • Case Study 33%
  8 Citations (Scopus)
• 2021

  Introduction to the symposium on global labs of international commercial dispute resolution

  Roberts, A., 2021, In: AJIL Unbound. 115, p. 1-4 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access
  5 Citations (Scopus)
• 2020

  How Globalization Came to the Brink of Collapse

  Roberts, A., 2020, Barron's, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• Is the Virus Killing Globalization? There's No One Answer

  Roberts, A. & Lamp, N., 2020, Barron's, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• UNCITRAL and ISDS Reform: Plausible Folk Theories

  Roberts, A. & St John, T., 2020, EJIL:Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• UNCITRAL and ISDS Reforms: What Makes Something Fly?

  Roberts, A. & St John, T., 2020, EJIL:Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• 2019

  UNCITRAL and ISDS Reform: China's Proposal

  Roberts, A. & St John, T., 2019, EJIL:Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• UNCITRAL and ISDS Reform: In Sickness and In Health

  Roberts, A. & St John, T., 2019, EJIL:Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• UNCITRAL and ISDS Reform: Visualising a Flexible Framework

  Roberts, A. & St John, T., 2019, EJIL:Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• UNCITRAL and ISDS Reforms: Agenda-Widening and Paradigm-Shifting

  Roberts, A. & St John, T., 2019, EJIL:Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• 2018

  Cross-Border Student Flows and the Construction of International Law as a Transnational Legal Field

  Roberts, A., 2018, In: UC Irvine Journal of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law. 3, 2, p. 1-38

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Introduction to the Symposium on the BRICS Approach to the Investment Treaty System

  Cai, C. & Roberts, A., 2018, In: AJIL Unbound. 112, p. 187-190 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Congressional Report 100%
  • Policy Maker 100%
  • Brazil 100%
  • International Organizations 100%
  • China 25%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Investment Treaties: The Reform Matrix

  Roberts, A., 2018, In: AJIL Unbound. 112, p. 191-196 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • China 100%
  • India 100%
  • Japan 100%
  • United States 100%
  • Russia 100%
  14 Citations (Scopus)

• Is International Law International? Continuing the Conversation

  Roberts, A., 2018, EJIL:Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• Jurisdiction to Adjudicate Under Customary International Law

  Dodge, W. S., Roberts, A. & Stephan , P. B., 2018, OpinioJuris, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• The Parochialism of Western Cosmopolitanism in a Competitive World Order

  Roberts, A., 2018, EJIL:Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• UNCITRAL and ISDS Reforms: Moving to Reform Options…the Process

  Roberts, A., 2018, EJIL:Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• 2017

  A Possible Approach to Transitional Double Hatting in Investor-State Arbitration

  Roberts, A., 2017, EJIL:Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• A Turning of the Tide against ISDS?

  Roberts, A., 2017, EJIL:Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• Being Charged by an Elephant: A story of globalization and inequality

  Roberts, A., 2017, EJIL:Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• Beyond the Globalism/Nationalism Divide: The Rise of Cities and Corporations Seeking International Obligations

  Roberts, A., 2017, OpinioJuris, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• China's Strategic Use of Research Funding on International Law

  Roberts, A., 2017, Lawfare, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• Pledging American Exceptionalism: US Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch on International Law

  Roberts, A., 2017, OpinioJuris, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• Syrian Strikes: A Singular Exception or a Pattern and a Precedent?

  Roberts, A., 2017, EJIL:Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• The Shifting Landscape of Investor-State Arbitration: Loyalists, Reformists, Revolutionaries and Undecideds

  Roberts, A., 2017, EJIL:Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• UNCITRAL and ISDS Reform: Not Business as Usual

  Roberts, A., 2017, EJIL:Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• UNCITRAL and ISDS Reform: Pluralism and the Plurilateral Investment Court

  Roberts, A., 2017, EJIL:Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• With Blinders On?: How International Law Casebooks Teach Students in the United States

  Roberts, A., 2017, Just Security, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• Would a Multilateral Investment Court be Biased? Shifting to a treaty party framework of analysis

  Roberts, A., 2017, EJIL:Talk! Blog of the European Journal of International Law, p. online.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › General Article

• 2015

  Comparative international law: Framing the field

  Roberts, A., Stephan, P. B., Verdier, P. H. & Versteeg, M., Jul 2015, In: American Journal of International Law. 109, 3, p. 467-474 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • International Law 100%
  • International Instruments 20%
  • Comparative Law 20%
  46 Citations (Scopus)

• Triangular treaties: The extent and limits of investment treaty rights

  Roberts, A., 1 Jun 2015, In: Harvard International Law Journal. 56, 2, p. 353-417 65 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • International Instruments 100%
  • Investors 100%
  • International Law 12%
  • Public Law 12%
  • Investor Protection 7%
  50 Citations (Scopus)
• 2014

  State-To-state investment treaty arbitration: A hybrid theory of interdependent rights and shared interpretive authority

  Roberts, A., 1 Dec 2014, In: Harvard International Law Journal. 55, 1, p. 1-70 70 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • International Instruments 100%
  • Arbitration 100%
  • Investors 92%
  • Courts 14%
  • Hybridity 14%
  86 Citations (Scopus)
• 2013

  Clash of paradigms: Actors and analogies shaping the investment treaty system

  Roberts, A., Jan 2013, In: American Journal of International Law. 107, 1, p. 45-94 50 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • International Instruments 100%
  • Metatheories 100%
  • Metatheory 100%
  • Arbitration 50%
  206 Citations (SciVal)
• 2012

  Lawmaking by Nonstate Actors: Engaging Armed Groups in the Creation of International Humanitarian Law

  Roberts, A. & Sivakumaran, S., 2012, In: Yale Journal of International Law. 37, 1, p. 107-152

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • International Law 100%
  • Humanitarian Law 100%
  • Statehood 33%
  • Illegitimacy 33%
• 2011

  Comparative international law? The role of national courts in creating and enforcing international law

  Roberts, A., Jan 2011, In: International and Comparative Law Quarterly. 60, 1, p. 57-92 36 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Courts 100%
  • International Law 100%
  • Legal Decision 25%
  • Comparative Analysis 12%
  • Comparative Law 12%
  176 Citations (Scopus)
• 2010

  Power and persuasion in investment treaty interpretation: The dual role of states

  Roberts, A., Apr 2010, In: American Journal of International Law. 104, 2, p. 179-225 47 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • International Instruments 100%
  • Dual Role 100%
  • Persuasive Communication 100%
  • Courts 50%
  • Investors 25%
  228 Citations (Scopus)

• Who Killed Article 38(1)(b)? A Reply to Bradley and Gulati

  Roberts, A., 2010, In: Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law. 21, 1, p. 173-190

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• 2004

  Righting Wrongs or Wronging Rights? The United States and Human Rights Post-September 11

  Roberts, A., 2004, In: European Journal of International Law. 15, 4, p. 721-749

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • International Law 100%
  • USA 100%
  • Human Rights 100%
  • Discrimination 100%
  • Foreigners 100%
• 2002

  Gender and Refugee Law

  Roberts, A., 2002, In: Australian Year Book of International Law. 22, p. 159-200

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• 2001

  Traditional and modern approaches to customary international law: A reconciliation

  Roberts, A. E., Oct 2001, In: American Journal of International Law. 95, 4, p. 757-790 34 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
  390 Citations (Scopus)