Céline Braumann
Céline Braumann
Assistant Professor (on leave)

Ph.D. (Vienna)
LL.M. (New York)
Mag.iur. (Vienna)
B.Sc. (Vienna)

Room
57 Louis Pasteur, Room 544
Phone
613-562-5800


Biography

Céline Braumann specializes in public international law and international economic law. She is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law (Common Law Section), University of Ottawa and is the co-chair of the Faculty’s International Law Group.

Before joining uOttawa’s Faculty of Law in January 2023, Professor Braumann spent nine years researching, teaching, and practicing international law across several countries and institutions. She holds a doctorate in law and a B.Sc. in economics from the University of Vienna and an LL.M. in international legal studies, which she obtained as a Fulbright Scholar at NYU School of Law. Her doctoral thesis focused on the intersection between public international law and international tax law.

Professor Braumann is admitted to the New York Bar and has experience working on investor-state and international tax dispute settlement. She has served at domestic and international courts, including the International Criminal Court and, as a Judicial Fellow to Judge James Crawford, the International Court of Justice. From 2016 to 2022, she worked as a Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of International Law of the University of Vienna.

Prior to starting her position at uOttawa, she was a Legal Officer at the International Law Department of the Austrian Foreign Ministry. She continues to support the Austrian Foreign Ministry with Austria’s intervention in Ukraine’s case against Russia before the International Court of Justice (concerning Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide).

Teaching

  • CML 3143A – International Investment Law (Fall 2023)
  • CML 4108B – Studies in International Law: International Taxation (Fall 2023)
  • CML 1105G – First-Year Thematic: International Environmental Law (Winter 2024)
  • CML 4136B – Advanced International Economic Law (Winter 2024)

Selected Publications

  • ‘2008 – The Global Financial Crisis and International Law’, (2018) 23 Austrian Review of International and European Law 201-218.
  • Céline Braumann and August Reinisch, ‘Investment Court Systems’ in Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (OUP, 2019).
  • Céline Braumann and August Reinisch, ‘Effet Utile’ in Klingler et al (eds), Between the Lines of the Vienna Convention: Canons of Construction in Public International Law (Kluwer, 2019) 47-72.
  • ‘Transitional Justice in Post-War Austria’ (2019) 15 International Journal of Law in Context 390-407.
  • ‘UN Human Rights Bodies on Extraterritorial Effects of Tax Laws and Policies’ in Šturma and Lipovský (eds), 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (RWW, 2019) 154-170.
  • ‘ECHR Litigation as a Tool for Tax Justice in Europe’ in Alston and Reisch (eds), Tax, Inequality and Human Rights (OUP, 2019) 409-425.
  • ‘Taxes and Custom: Tax Treaties as Evidence for Customary International Law’ (2020) 23 Journal of International Economic Law 747-769.
  • ‘“Portuguese Youth Case“: Erste EMRK-Beschwerde gegen Treibhausgasemissionen anhängig‘ (2021) 1(2) Nachhaltigkeitsrecht 221-223.
  • ‘Taxation and Human Rights’ in Binder, Nowak, Hofbauer, Janig (eds), Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022).
  • ‘The Settlement of Tax Disputes by the International Court of Justice’ (2023, published online on 23 May) Leiden Journal of International Law.