Dr Fabian Eichberger

Fabian serves as a Charles & Katharine Darwin Research Fellow at Darwin College, University of Cambridge, and is also a Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. His primary research interests span general international law—with a particular emphasis on dispute settlement and state responsibility—international investment law, international environmental law, and German public law. At present, his research focuses on national security, climate change, and the functions of international courts within the global legal architecture. He is a co-editor of the Edward Elgar Research Handbook on State Responsibility in the 21st Century (forthcoming 2026).

He completed his PhD on "Self-Judgment in International Law" at the University of Cambridge, funded by a W.M. Tapp Studentship and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. Prior to joining the University of Cambridge, he was a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He read law at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg (Dipl. Jur.), Waseda University, Tokyo (exchange), and the University of Oxford (M.Jur.).

His writing has been recognized with the Rosalyn Higgins Prize (2022) and the Prize for Best Article in International Dispute Resolution of the Dispute Resolution Interest Group of the American Society of International Law (2025).

Since 2022, Fabian has served as an Associate Editor for International Law in Domestic Courts (OUP). His previous editorial roles have included appointments as Assistant Editor for Investment Arbitration at Kluwer Arbitration Blog, General Editor of the Cambridge International Law Journal, Editorial Assistant at the ICSID Review - Foreign Investment Law Journal, and Editor of Voelkerrechtsblog.