Iveta Alexovicova (I.)

International trade law / WTO law

International investment law

International economic dispute resolution

Iveta Alexovičová is Assistant Professor of International Economic Law at Maastricht University, Department of International Law. She is the coordinator of the Globalization and Law Master programme offered at the Law Faculty and the Faculty of Law representative in the Curriculum Committee of the University College Maastricht. Iveta is a fellow of the Institute for Globalisation and International Regulation (IGIR), member of the Ius Commune Research School, and a non-resident fellow of the World Trade Institute (WTI). 

Iveta holds a Master degree in Law from Comenius University (Bratislava, Slovakia); an advanced Master degree in Comparative, European and International Law (Magister Iuris Communis) from Maastricht University (Maastricht, Netherlands); a postgraduate degree JUDr. (doctor of law) from Charle’s University (Prague, Czech Republic); and a PhD degree from Maastricht University (Maastricht, Netherlands).

Iveta’s previous working experience includes public service in Slovakia and legal consultancy in the private sector in Slovakia and in the Netherlands. Since joining Maastricht University, Iveta has been conducting research in combination with lecturing and coaching award-winning teams in several international law moot court competitions. In the past, Iveta coordinated and lectured courses on international trade law, public international law, international investment law, international development law, European law and lawyers’ skills, all at Maastricht University (Faculty of Law, Faculty of Political Science and University College Maastricht) as well as at Hasselt University in Hasselt, Belgium and EU-China School of Law in Beijing, China.

At present, Iveta’s research and teaching fully focus on international trade and investment law. Iveta coordinates and teaches several courses concerning these two fields. As a member of IGIR international trade and investment research group she focuses her research on challenges posed by the limiting effect of international rules regarding trade liberalization and investment protection on the sovereign autonomy of states to pursue important societal objectives, with a special interest in the EU trade and investment policies.