Anthea Roberts

Anthea Roberts is a professor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) who specializes in public international law, international economic law, comparative international law, geoeconomics, and narrative economics. She is the Director of the ANU Centre for International Governance and Justice and Chair of the Geoeconomics Working Group, is a repeat Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School, and formerly taught at the London School of Economics, Columbia Law School, and Harvard Law School. She is currently working on a variety of issues relating to governing in complexity, including policy-making at the intersection of economics, security, social issues and the environment.

The League of Scholars has named Anthea the world’s leading international law scholar (2019), Australia’s leading international law scholar (2019, 2022, 2023) and Australia’s leading law scholar (2019). Her books Is International Law International? (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Six Faces of Globalization (Harvard University Press, 2021, co-authored with Nicolas Lamp) have won multiple international awards, including being listed on the Best Books of the Year by the Financial Times and Fortune magazine and winning the American Society of International Law’s book prize for pre-eminent contribution to scholarship. Anthea has twice been awarded the Francis Deák Prize for the best article published in the American Journal of International Law by a young scholar and received an ANU Futures Award and a UK Philip Leverhulme Prize.