Fernando Lusa Bordin's research focuses on topics of public international law, including international legal theory, law-making, the law of international organizations, international dispute settlement, the law on the use of force and international investment law. His monograph, The Analogy between States and International Organizations, was published by Cambridge University Press and received the 2020 Certificate of Merit in a Specialized Area of International Law from the American Society of International Law. He is currently an Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Cambridge University.

Prior to taking his post in Cambridge, Fernando received an LL.B. (with honours) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), an LL.M. from NYU School of Law (where he was a Grotius Scholar), the Diploma of Public International Law from the Hague Academy of International Law and a PhD from the University in Cambridge (for which he received the Yorke Prize). He served as Assistant to Professor Giorgio Gaja at the International Law Commission in the summers of 2009 and 2011, and as Judicial Fellow (law clerk) to Judge Cançado Trindade at the International Court of Justice between 2009 and 2010. He also worked as Research Associate to Professor James Crawford in 2014, and served as Junior Counsel for Mauritius in the Chagos Marine Protected Area Arbitration (Mauritius v UK).