Global Affiliates

Ximena Fuentes, D.Phil. (Oxon) is Affiliate Member of our Academy, as well as Associate Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile. Since 2015 she serves as the National Director of Boundaries and Frontier Zones of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Chile. She is the Agent of the Republic of Chile before the International Court of Justice in the case concerning the Status and Use of the Waters of the Silala (Chile v. Bolivia).

She wrote her D.Phil thesis on The Equitable Criteria  of Equitable Utilization of International Watercourses (University of Oxford, 1999), and on the basis of her research she published two articles in the British Year Book of International Law on the subject of the equitable utilization of international watercourses and a book chapter:

“The Criteria for the Equitable Utilization of International Rivers”, 67 The British Year Book of International Law (1996), pp.337-412.

“Sustainable Development and the Equitable Utilization of International Watercourses”, 69 The British Year Book of International Law (1998), pp. 119-200.

“The utilization of international groundwater in general international law”, in Goodwin-Gill, G. y S. Talmon (eds.), The Reality of International Law. Essays in Honour of Professor Ian Brownlie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 177-198.

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Ximena Fuentes was Co-Rapporteur of the Committee on International Law on Sustainable Development of the International Law Association (2003-2012). Today she is a member of the ILA Committee on Natural Resources Role of International Law in Sustainable Natural Resource Management for Development.

She acted as legal adviser to the Government of Chile in the Peru v. Chile Maritime Dispute case before the ICJ (2008-2014). She also worked as legal adviser of the Government of Chile in the Bolivia v. Chile case regarding an Obligation to Negotiate Access to the Pacific Ocean (2013-2018).

Along with her work on international water law, she has done research on international environmental law, international dispute settlement, international investment law, international criminal law, and the relations between domestic and international law. Among her publications may be mentioned: “International and Domestic Law: Definitely an Odd Couple”, 77 Revista Jurídica de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (2008), pp. 483-505; “The Impact of International Foreign Investment Rules on Domestic Law”, in French, (ed.), Global Justice and Sustainable Development, Brill Publishers (2010), pp. 187-206; “Latin American States and the International Court of Justice”, in Klein, Natalie, Litigating International Law Disputes: Weighing the Options, Cambridge University Press (2013), pp. ; “Climate Change and International Investment Treaties”, in  Farber and Peeters (eds), Elgar Encyclopedia on International Environmental Law: Climate Change Law (Volume I), Edward Elgar Publishing (2016); with J. Klein Kranenberg, “Annulment Proceedings in Cases Involving Latin American Countries”, in Tanzi, Asteriti, Turrini y Polanco (eds.), International Investment Law in Latin America, Brill Publishers, (2016), pp. 229-243.

She is President of the Chilean Society of International Law. And Vice-President of the Chilean Branch of the International Law Association.