Alongside his practice, Mr. Batifort is an Adjunct Professor at Brooklyn Law School and at Université Paris Cité where he teaches advanced courses on investment treaty arbitration. A frequent author and speaker on issues of international arbitration and public international law, he was awarded the 2019 Smit-Lowenfeld Prize for Best Article in International Arbitration for “The New Debate on the Interpretation of MFN Clauses in Investment Treaties: Putting the Brakes on Multilateralization,” which was published in the American Journal of International Law (AJIL) and was the subject of an AJIL Unbound symposium.
He is a member of the Strategic Planning Committee of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and former member of the Executive Council of ASIL, co-chair of the 2024 ASIL Abroad Geneva Meeting Committee, co-chair of ASIL’s 2021 Annual Meeting Committee and of ASIL’s Dispute Resolution Interest Group (2020-2023). He also frequently serves as a delegate to UNCITRAL Working Group III on the reform of Investor-State Dispute Settlement. He previously served as co-chair of the Insolvency and Arbitration Working Group of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA) and as a member of the Arbitration Committee of the New York City Bar Association.
Admitted to the bar in New York, Paris and Brussels, Mr. Batifort holds degrees in public and private international law, civil law, common law and comparative law from Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) (First in Class), Université de Montpellier and NYU School of Law, where he served as research assistant to Professor José E. Alvarez and as a graduate editor for the Journal of International Law and Politics. Prior to joining Curtis, he worked as in-house counsel for one of the world’s largest construction companies and interned at both the ICC International Court of Arbitration and the International Court of Justice.
