Dr Crina Baltag, FCIArb - Arbitrator

Dr Crina Baltag, FCIArb, is Professor Assoc. in International Arbitration Law at Stockholm University and qualified attorney-at-law, member of the Romanian and Bucharest Bar, with extensive practice, for over twenty years, in international commercial and investment arbitration, international dispute resolution, private and public international law. Crina is Visiting Senior Fellow at University of Oxford.

Crina has been involved in international arbitration for over twenty years as counsel, arbitrator, expert, and head of arbitration and mediation institution (Amcham Brazil Arbitration and Mediation Center). 

Crina has been appointed in numerous arbitrations, as presiding, sole and co-arbitrator, under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), the Finland Arbitration Institute (FAI), Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC), the Court of International Commercial Arbitration-Romanian Chamber of Commerce (CCIR-Romania) and the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. 

Crina’s expertise focuses on arbitrations concerning foreign investments, financial transactions, construction projects, energy and natural resources projects, investment disputes, sale of goods contracts, service contracts and IP contracts, among others.

Crina is member of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Institute (SCC) Board, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Crina’s academic work includes the leading publications on The Energy Charter Treaty: The Notion of Investor [author, Wolters Kluwer, 2012]; The Future of Investment Treaty Arbitration in the EU [co-editor, Wolters Kluwer, 2020], Construction Arbitration in Central and Eastern Europe: Contemporary Issues[co-editor, Wolters Kluwer, 2019]; etc. and numerous publications in leading legal journals and reviews, including on Article V(1)(e) of the New York Convention: To Enforce or Not to Enforce Set Aside Arbitral Awards?, [Journal of International Arbitration, Volume 39, Issue 3 (2022) pp. 397 – 410]; on the Denial of Benefits in Investment Law [co-author; Max Planck Encyclopaedia of International Procedural Law , Oxford University Press, 2019] etc.

Crina is the academic director of the International Commercial Arbitration Law (ICAL) LL.M., and teaches extensively in this LL.M., as well as in other courses at Stockholm University related to dispute resolution and international law, as well as at other prestigious Universities as guest lecturer on similar topics.

Further, Crina holds various appointments, including as the managing editor of Kluwer Arbitration Blog, co-managing editor of ITA Arbitration Report and member of editorial boards of prestigious journals in the field, including of the Journal of International Arbitration and Bloomsbury’s Global Energy Law and Policy. Crina is member of the Executive Committee and Chair of the Academic Council of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA) of the Center for American and International Law.

Crina holds a PhD degree in International Arbitration from Queen Mary University of London (UK), LL.M in International Commercial Arbitration Law from Stockholm University (Sweden), M.Sc. in International Business from Academy of Economic Studies (Romania), LL.B. from University of Bucharest (Romania). Crina also holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education (UK) and she is Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. 

Crina speaks fluently and can conduct arbitrations in English, Portuguese, and Romanian. Crina has good knowledge of French and Swedish. Crina can read Italian and Spanish.