Ksenia Polonskaya
Associate Professor
- LL.B. (Kuban State), LL.M. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Queen’s)
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On leave June 2025 – June 2026
Supervision
Dr. Ksenia Polonskaya is looking to supervise students in the areas of commercial arbitration, investment arbitration, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) law. She is particularly interested in the projects that examine the intersection of international economic law with human rights and climate change.
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Journals
鈥淢etanarratives as a Trap: Critique of Investor鈥揝tate Arbitration Reform鈥 (2020) 23:4 Journal of International Economic Law 949-971.
鈥淎llocation of Costs in Investor-State Arbitration: Abuse of Process Claims, Claims Manifestly Without Legal Merit and Unfounded Claims鈥 (2020) 11:4 Journal of International Dispute Settlement 589-613.
鈥淪electing Candidates to the Bench of the World Court: (Inevitable) Politicization and Its Consequences鈥 (2020) Leiden Journal of International Law 409-428.
鈥淎dvisory Jurisdiction of the World Court: Judicial Propriety Deconstructed in Light of Chagos Archipelago鈥 (2019) 18:2 Journal of the Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 189-218.
鈥淒iversity in Investor-State Arbitration: Intersectionality Must Be a Part of the Conversation鈥 (2018) 19:1 Melbourne Journal of International Law 259-298.
鈥淔rivolous Claims in the International Investment Regime: How CETA Expands the Range of Frivolous Claims that May Be Curtailed in an Expedient Fashion鈥 (2017) 7 Asper Review of International Business and Trade Law 1-35.
Contributions to Edited Volumes
鈥淒omestic Courts as Transnational Actors in International Investment Law: A Canadian Perspective鈥 in Anastasios Gourgourinis (ed), Transnational Actors in International Investment Law (Springer, 2021) 151-170.
鈥淥ne Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Remedies in the Context of Investors Responsibilities鈥 in Oonagh Fitzgerald (ed), Corporate Citizen New Perspectives on the Globalized Rule of Law (with Hugo Perezcano Diaz, McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2020) 231-246.
鈥淎rbitral Institutions鈥 Response to Perceived Legitimacy Deficits: Promoting Diversity, Transparency and Expedition in Investor-State Arbitration鈥 in Freya Baetens (ed), Legitimacy of Unseen Actors in International Adjudication (Cambridge University Press, 2019) 371-392.
Book Reviews
鈥淏ook review: C. Titi and K. Fach Gomez (eds), Mediation in International Commercial and Investment Disputes (2019)鈥 Leiden Journal of International Law 1-4.
Other Publications
鈥淓ngendering International Trade and Investment Arbitration for Sustainable Development鈥 (2020) CIGI Policy Brief, online:< >
鈥淭rue Diversity is Intersectional: Escaping the One-Dimensional Discourse on Arbitrator Diversity鈥 Kluwer Arbitration Blog, online:<> (with J. Karton)
鈥淓li Lilly v. Canada: Investor-State Arbitration Is an Open Gate for the 鈥楶atent Trolls鈥欌 IPilogue: Osgoode Law School, online: <>