صادق ضیایی بیگدلی

Sadeq Z. Bigdeli - Senior Lecturer

LLB (Dist) Tehran MILE (summa) Bern LLM Harvard PhD (summa) Bern

Sadeq Z. Bigdeli holds an LLB from Tehran University and an LLM from Harvard Law School. At Harvard, Sadeq was a member of submission committees of Harvard International Law Journal and Harvard Environmental Law Review. He is also a summa cum laude graduate of the Master of International Law and Economics (MILE) programme of the World Trade Institute (University of Bern). Hid PhD on "Energy and Climate Subsidies in International Economic Law" was awarded summa cum laude by the University of Berne (Faculty of Law) and was recognized by examiners as a 'significant contribution to the field'.

Sadeq has delivered lectures at the post-graduate level at the Universities of Bern, Neuchâtel, Zurich and St.Gallen and presented papers in a number of international conferences such as the American Society of International Law and the Society of International Economic Law as well as international organizations such as the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme. He has been an observer of the Committee of International Law on Biotechnology of the International Law Association. In 2007-8, Sadeq was a senior fellow at the World trade Institute where he was co-leader of a significant research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, which focused on energy and climate change from the perspective of WTO law and policy. In that capacity he co-edited a volume on International Trade Regulation and the Mitigation of Climate published by Cambridge University Press (2009) to which he also contributed a chapter. Sadeq’s publications in the field of climate change and WTO law of subsidies are widely cited by prominent scholars in the field. Sadeq is experienced in holding training sessions on trade regulation for government officials and businesses communities from both developed and developing countries. He also has more than three year of professional experience in legal practice in the Middle East on international business matters including contracts, foreign direct investment and energy.

Sadeq teaches Jurisprudence and Public International Law in the undergraduate programme and International Trade Regulation at the postgraduate level.

Recent Publications

Legal positivism in the pre-constitutional era of late nineteenth-century Iran
Author/s: Bigdeli, S
Parent Document:    Waikato Law Review
Category: Refereed Journal Articles
Year Published: 2011

The first generation of Muslim 'intellectuals' and the 'rights of man'
Author/s: Bigdeli, Sadeq Z
Parent Document:    University of Western Sydney Law Review
Category: Refereed Journal Articles
Year Published: 2011

Resurrecting the dead? The expired non-actionable subsidies and the lingering question of 'green space'
Author/s: Bigdeli, Sadeq Z
Parent Document:    Manchester Journal of International Economic Law
Category: Refereed Journal Articles
Year Published: 2011

Towards a WTO framework agreement on trade in energy
Author/s: Cottier, Thomas , Nartova, Olga , Rubini, Luca , Bigdeli, Sadeq Z, Matteotti, Sofya , Selivanova, Yulia
Parent Document:    Society of International Economic Law, Second Biennial Global Conference
Category: Conference - Full Paper
Year Published: 2010

The regulation of energy and climate subsidies in international economic law
Author/s: Bigdeli, Sadeq Z
Category: Doctoral Thesis
Year Published: 2010

Market access and international trade regulation (Chapter IV)
Author/s: Bigdeli, Sadeq Z
Parent Document:    The International Law on Biotechnology
Category: Technical Report
Year Published: 2010

No ordinary deal - Unmasking the Trans-Pacific partnership Free Trade Agreement
Author/s: Bigdeli, Sadeq Z
Parent Document:    Treaty Action and Implementation
Category: Reviews
Year Published: 2010

Energy in WTO law and policy
Author/s: Cottier, Thomas , Malumfashi, Garba , Matteotti-Berkutova, Sofya , Nartova, Olga , De Sepibus, Joelle , Bigdeli, Sadeq Z
Parent Document:    The Prospects of International Trade Regulation : From Fragmentation to Coherence
Category: Book Chapters
Year Published: 2010

Climate change and international law: Exploring the linkages between human rights, environment, trade and investment
Author/s: Aerni, P , Boie, B , Cottier, T , Holzer, K , Jost, D , Karapinar, B , Matteotti, S , Nartova, O , Payosova, T , Rubini, L , Shingal, A , Temmerman, F , Xoplaki, E , Bigdeli, S Z
Parent Document:    German Yearbook of International Law
Category: Refereed Journal Articles
Year Published: 2010

Incentive schemes to promote renewables and the WTO law of subsidies
Author/s: Bigdeli, Sadeq Z
Parent Document:    International Trade Regulation and the Mitigation of Climate Change
Category: Book Chapters

International Trade Regulation and the Mitigation of Climate Change
Author/s: Cottier, Thomas , Nartova, Olga , Bigdeli, Sadeq Z
Category: Edited Books
Year Published: 2009

Article VIII GATS: Monopolies and exclusive service suppliers
Author/s: Bigdeli, Sadeq Z, Rechsteiner,
Parent Document:    WTO-Trade in Services
Category: Book Chapters
Year Published: 2008

Will the friends of climate emerge in the WTO? The prospects of applying the fisheries subsidies model to energy subsidies
Author/s: Bigdeli, Sadeq Z
Parent Document:    Carbon & Climate Law Review
Category: Refereed Journal Articles
Year Published: 2008

Article IX GATS: Business Practices
Author/s: Bigdeli, Sadeq Z, Nenova, Burri
Parent Document:    WTO-Trade in Services
Category: Book Chapters
Year Published: 2008

Sollen biotreibstoffe subventioniert werden?
Author/s: Bigdeli, Sadeq Z
Parent Document:    Unipress
Category: Journal Articles
Year Published: 2008