Dr Noam Zamir currently serves as associate professor at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), School of Law.

His research focuses on public international law, investor-state arbitrations and international commercial arbitrations. He has written various articles in the field of public international law, notably international arbitration, international humanitarian law and human rights law. His articles were published in top journals such as the American Journal of International Law (CUP) and Arbitration International (OUP) and his book on international humanitarian law was published by Edward Elgar (2017).

Selected Publications:

• (with Michael Waibel), Substantive Protections in International Investment Law (Hart Publication, 2026 [forthcoming])
• ‘The Allocation of Costs in Investor-State Arbitration’, 53(1) Denver Journal of International Law and Policy (2025) 155-182
• ‘Sovereignty vs Humanity: The Evolution of International Law in Civil and Colonial Wars and Modern Implications’, 13(2), Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2025), 123-157
• (with Daniel Pascoe), ‘Situating Hong Kong’s ‘Rule of Law’ Internationally’, Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law (2024)
• (with Neil Kaplan), ‘To Reason or Not to Reason: Arbitral Awards - The Conflict between Conciseness and the Duty to Provide Reasons under National laws and International Rules’, Arbitration International (Oxford University Press, 2024)
• (with Doron Narotzki and Tamir Shanan) ‘A New Governance Framework in Cross-Border Tax Policymaking’, 19(1) Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law (2024), 115-151;
• (with Doron Narotzki and Tamir Shanan) ‘A Time to Institutionalize the International Tax Regime’ 52 52(11) Intertax (2024), 673-683
• (with Michael Moser), ‘Hong Kong SAR, China’, in Kevin Kim and John Bang (eds), Post-Award Interest in the Asia-Pacific (Kluwer Law International, 2023)
• (with Neil Kaplan), ‘Quo Vadis Arbitration Post-COVID?’, in Stavros Brekoulakis and Romesh Weeramantry (eds), Achieving the Arbitration Dream (Kluwer Law International, 2023)
• 'Online Arbitration: The Perspective of The Arbitrator', André Janssen and Ruud Hermans (eds), International Arbitration and Technology (Wolters Kluwer, 2022)
• (with Zachary Mollengarden), ‘The Monetary Gold Principle: Back to Basics’, 115(1) American Journal of International Law (2021), 41-77
• ‘The Issue of Costs: How much does ISDS Cost and Who Bears the Cost?’ in Julien Chaisse and others (eds), Handbook of International Investment Law and Policy (Springer, 2021), 1-20
• (with Mark Kielsgard), ‘Teaching International Law in Countries with International Law Crisis’, 13(3) Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law (2020), 259-280
• (with Peretz Segal), 'Appeal in International Arbitration – an Efficient and Affordable Arbitral Appeal Mechanism', 35 Arbitration International (Oxford University Press, 2019) 79-93
• 'Arbitration in Israel: International Investment Law', in International Arbitration: Issues, Perspectives and Practice: Liber Amicorum Neil Kaplan (Kluwer Law International, 2019)
• 'International Law', The Annual Register (2018)
• 'The Classification of Armed Conflicts between Occupying States and Non-State Armed Groups in cases of Belligerent Occupation', 7(1) Cambridge Journal of International Law (2018) 145-163
• 'The Police Powers Doctrine in International Investment Law', Manchester Journal of International Economic Law, 14(3) (2017) 318-337
• 'The Applicability of the Monetary Gold Principle in International Arbitration', 33(4) Arbitration International (Oxford University Press, 2017) 523-538
• Classification of Conflicts in International Humanitarian Law: The Legal Impact of Foreign Intervention in Civil Wars (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) (see book reviews in the Polish Yearbook of International Law vol 37 (2018); Australian Year Book of International Law Vol 35 (2018); 6 City University of Hong Kong Law Review (2017-2019))
• 'International Law', The Annual Register (2017) 418-423
• (with Paul Barker), 'The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and States’ Right to Regulate under International Investment Law', 45(2) Denver Journal of International Law and Policy (2017) 205-224.
• 'The Armed Conflict(s) against the Islamic State', 18 The Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (2016) 91-121
• 'Hong Kong, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Foreign Investment Protection', Hong Kong Lawyer (2016)
• 'International Law', The Annual Register (2016) 432-436
• 'Non-International Armed Conflict in International Law', 85 The British Yearbook of International Law (2015) (book review)
• (with Guglielmo Verdirame), 'International Law', The Annual Register (2015) 426-430
• 'Distinction Matters: Rethinking the Protection of Civilian Objects in Non-International Armed Conflicts', 48(1) Israel Law Review (2015) 111-132
• (with Guglielmo Verdirame), 'International Law', The Annual Register (2014) 443-448
• (with Kubo Mačák), 'The Applicability of International Humanitarian Law to the Conflict in Libya', 14 International Community Law Review (2012) 403–436
• (with Orna Ben-Naftali), 'Whose ‘Conduct Unbecoming’? The Shooting of a Handcuffed, Blindfolded Palestinian Demonstrator', 7 Journal of International Criminal Justice (2009) 155-175