Professor Julian Arato is a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. His scholarly expertise spans the areas of public international law, international investment law and arbitration, international trade, contracts, and corporations. Arato is an author of International Law: Cases and Materials, 8th ed. (2024) (with Lori Damrosch and Sean Murphy). He is also an author of International Trade Law Through the Cases (2025 edn) (with J.H.H. Weiler, Sungjoon Cho, and Kathleen Claussen) (open-access). His article "The Private Law Critique of International Investment Law" won the 2019 Francis Deák Prize for best article by a younger author published in the American Journal of International Law, as well as the inaugural ICCA-Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez Memorial Prize. Arato is a member of the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law, a member of the executive board of the European Journal of International Law, and an editor of the EJIL:Talk! blog.