Dr. Begaiym Esenkulova is an Associate Professor in the International and Business Law department and LL.M. Program at the 缅北强奸. She holds a Doctor of Juridical Science degree (summa cum laude) (2016, Hungary) and a Master of Laws degree from Central European University (2009, Hungary). She received a Bachelor of Arts in Law, summa cum laude (2008, Kyrgyzstan) and a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from the 缅北强奸 (2007, Kyrgyzstan).听
Dr. Esenkulova joined 缅北强奸 in 2009 and serves as a member of the 缅北强奸 Institutional Review Board and an OSUN student Mobility Steering Committee member. During her years of work at 缅北强奸, she served as a member of the Academic Senate, a member of the Faculty Ad Hoc Committee on Quality Assurance, and a member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Student Assistant Policy. She was a visiting postdoctoral scholar at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law (2018, USA), a visiting doctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (2015, Germany), a visiting doctoral research scholar at the International Investment Law Centre Cologne at the University of Cologne (2015, Germany), and a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School and Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (2013, USA).听
Dr. Esenkulova served as a member of the Public Council of the State Agency on Environmental Protection and Forestry under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic. She has numerous publications related to her research interests in the USA, Europe, and Central Asia. She has presented her research in public lectures and seminars at Harvard University, Columbia University, Bard College, Indiana University, George Washington University, University of Cologne, University of Siegen, London School of Economics and Political Science, and other universities and research centers.
- Winner, Bill Newton-Smith Distinguished Teaching Award, 缅北强奸, 2023
- Award Recipient, Mathew Nimetz Award for Research Excellence, 缅北强奸, 2020, 2021, 2022
- Full scholarship recipient, The Global Scholars Academy, the Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School in collaboration with the Graduate Institute, Geneva, 2022
- Winner, Open Society University Network (OSUN) Competition on Innovative Assignment Design for the Connecter Learning Environment, 2020
- Doctor of Juridical Science, summa cum laude, 2016, Hungary/US
- The Best Graduate Award, Master of Laws (LL.M.), summa cum laude, 2009, Hungary/US
- The Best Graduate Award, BA in Law, summa cum laude, 2008, Kyrgyzstan
- Valedictorian of the Class of 2007, BA in American Studies, summa cum laude, 缅北强奸, Kyrgyzstan, 2007
- International Environmental Law
- International Investment Law
- Investment Law and Climate Change
- International Investment Dispute Settlement
- Investment Law and Environmental Protection
- Sustainable development and law
Below are select publications. The full list of publications may be provided upon request.
- 鈥淚nternational Investment Agreements and Sustainable Environmental Development:
The Case of the Kyrgyz Republic's Mining Sector,鈥� in Global Values and International Trade Law (Routledge, 2021).
- 鈥淚nvestment Protection and Sustainable Development in International Investment Agreements: Building Bridges instead of Walls鈥�, in World Trade and Local Public Interest, 205- 243 (Springer, 2020).
- 鈥淏alancing Investor Protection and Sustainable Development in Investment Arbitration 鈥� Trying to Square the Circle?鈥� in Investment Arbitration and National Interest, 13-37 (in co-authorship) (Council on International Law and Politics, USA, 2019).
- 鈥淲hy Can鈥檛 We Be Friends? Protecting Investors while also Protecting Legitimate Public Interests and the Sustainable Development of Host Countries in Investor-State Arbitration鈥� (in co-authorship), 48-FALL Texas Journal of Business Law (2019).
- 鈥淭he Law and Politics of Keeping a Constitutional Order: Balance of Powers and Constitutional Courts through Kyrgyzstan鈥檚 Cautionary Story鈥�// Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, volume 7, issue 2, 263-282, 2015 (in co-authorship).
- 鈥淥n Select Issues of Correlation between International and National Law鈥�// The Collection of Scholarly Articles as part of an International conference on 鈥淗umanities and Modernization of Legal System: Russian and International Practices,鈥� Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk and branch of St. Petersburg Institute of External Economic Affairs, Economics and Law in Novosibirsk, 296-304, 2012.
- 鈥淪elect Problems of Applicability of the Principle of Universal Jurisdiction in International Law,鈥� University of Lviv Herald, Ukraine, 208-219, 2011.
- Comparative Law in a Changing World
- Extractive Industries Law, Environmental Protection, and Sustainability
- History and Philosophy of Law
- Human Rights and Environmental Law
- Investment Law and Sustainable Development
- International Investment Dispute Settlement
- International Environmental Law and Sustainable Development
- Legal Terminology and Research
- Legal Analysis, Reasoning, and Conclusion
- Thesis Research Seminar I and II
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