The UN Sustainable Development Goals: A Commentary

About Francesco SeatzuIlias Bantekas

Ilias Bantekas is Professor of Transnational Law at Hamad bin Khalifa University (Qatar Foundation) Adjunct Professor of international law at Georgetown University Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service and Senior Associate Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) University of London. He has advised private clients charities governments and inter-governmental organisations (UN UNDP EU Council of Europe and others) in most fields of international law and transnational contracts. He also serves as arbitrator in international commercial disputes. Francesco Seatzu is Chair of International Law at the University of Cagliari. He has been Visiting Scholar and Professor in several universities most recently the University of Huelva (2017) the University of Murcia (2018) and the University of Donostia-San Sebastian (2019). He is a Member of the Doctoral School of International and EU Law of the State University of Milano the CIDOIE and the Italian Society of International Law. Katerina Akestoridi was a Teaching Associate at Université Catholique de Lille during the first semester of the academic year 2021-2022 while she also held a Fellowship at the Faculties of Law and Political Sciences of the University of Cagliari Italy. She has practiced law in Athens Greece and consulted in the NGO sector (IBAHRI and EHRAC). Her current research focuses on the accountability of non-state actors for sustainable development and the nexus between the Sustainable Development Goals and International Law.