Judicial Review in International Administrative Law

Teresa Bravo, PhD, is an international judge in the field of International Administrative Law, with more than 25 years of judicial experience. Between 2016 and 2023 she was the full-time judge at the United Nations Dispute Tribunal in  Geneva, where she served as President in 2019. In July 2022, she was appointed as judge President of the newly created NATO Mission Appeals’ Tribunal in Naples and since, June 2022 she is the Chairperson of the Administrative Review Committee of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, based in London. Between February and April 2022 she reviewed and assessed the functioning of the internal justice system of the World Health Organization, based in Geneva, drafted and prepared a Report with a set of recommendations to the Director General. In July 2023 she was selected and appointed as a judge of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal in Manila. As of 01 July 2024, she is the President of the  IADB- Administrative Tribunal in Washington DC. She holds a PhD in European and International Criminal Law, published her thesis in 2017 titled “Ne Bis In idem in European Criminal and Competition Law,” and, between 2011 and 2013, was a guest researcher at the Max-Planck Institute in Freiburg im Breisgau. She has also lectured in labor law at Nova Law School, in Lisbon, and has authored several publications in criminal law, European, and labor law.Kieran Bradley is a judge of the Administrative Tribunals of the IMF and of the IADB Group, and judge or chair of the administrative tribunal, appeals board or disciplinary committee of an number of international organizations (IMO, ESA, ECMWF, ESM, SKAO) and European Union bodies (ECB, EIB, ENISA).  He was previously a member (and Vice-Chair) of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency. From 2011 to 2016, he was a judge of the EU Civil Service Tribunal and, prior to that, the Director for Administrative Law of the Legal Service of the European Parliament. He is an Adjunct Professor at Trinity College Dublin, and a visiting professor at the Global School of Law (Lisbon), and the Autonomous University of  Barcelona. He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge and has published extensively in the fields of European Union, administrative law and the protection of fundamental rights.

• Highlights on the doctrine of Acquired Rights and the jurisprudence of international administrative tribunals.- Institutional Setting of Administrative Tribunals: The case of the Inter-American Development Bank Administrative Tribunal (IDBAT), with references to its peers.- Legal standing and the role of staff associations before (international) Administrative Tribunals.- Harassment Investigations in International Organizations: Rights of Claimants under the Jurisprudence of the International Labour Organization Administrative Tribunal.- The United Nations jurisprudence on pre-disciplinary cases involving sexual exploitation and abuse.- Divergent Standards of Proof Currently Applied by International Administrative Tribunals in Serious Misconduct Cases: An Evolving Snapshot.- Reasonable doubt about ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ in international administrative law.