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England
Prof Dan Sarooshi KC KC
Position
Professor Dan Sarooshi K.C. has a track record of achieving success in high stakes litigation. He is a highly regarded advocate who litigates in the areas of public international law, investment treaty arbitration, commercial litigation, and constitutional law. He also represents States and international organizations in international and domestic employment cases. His clients include 14 States (e.g., UK and USA), 15 international organizations, corporations (e.g. BAT, Exxon Mobil, Hitachi, Roche, and Tesco), and Royal Families/Billionaires. His cases have been in the domestic courts in the UK, Hong Kong and Bahamas; International Court of Justice; European Court of Human Rights; World Trade Organization; and arbitration proceedings conducted pursuant to ICSID (also ECT and AF), NAFTA, ICC, UNCITRAL, and LCIA Rules.
Career
Called 2005, Middle Temple.
Memberships
American Society of International Law (including as Counsellor on its Executive Committee); British Institute of International & Comparative Law; Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR); International Law Association; and London Court of International Arbitration.
Education
LLB and B. Comm (Ec), UNSW; LLM (Kings College London); PhD (LSE: under the supervision of H.E. Judge Dame (previously Professor) Rosalyn Higgins Q.C.); and MA (Oxford) (Hon).
He joined the Law Faculty in the University of Oxford in 2003 and was in 2006 promoted to full Professor of Public International Law in the University of Oxford at the age of 38.
Taught previously at UCL and LSE.
Lawyer Rankings
London Bar > Public international law
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Dan Sarooshi KC –Essex Court Chambers ‘Highly experienced before the International Court of Justice and other international tribunals, with the academic credentials and knowledge to inform strong litigation skills and persuasive ability.’
Essex Court Chambers is experienced in inter-state disputes, investor state proceedings and advisory opinions concerning public international law, where the set’s barristers have been instructed in numerous cases before the international courts and tribunals, namely the ICJ, ECHR and ITLOS. Among the sets work highlights is the Climate Change advisory proceedings before ITLOS and before the ICJ in which Ben Juratowitch is acting on behalf of the UK and leads Amy Sander before ITLOS regarding questions of state obligations to curb climate change under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement. Further members of the chambers involved in the ICJ case are Dan Sarooshi KC who represents the UAE and Sam Wordsworth KC who is acting on behalf of the government of Belize, leading Sean Aughey and Naomi Hart. Vaughan Lowe KC is part of a team representing South Africa, and Malcolm Shaw KC is part of a team representing Israel, in the South Africa v Israel ICJ case, in which South Africa alleges that aspects of Israel’s military response to the October 7th 2023 attack on it by Hamas amount to genocide. Tariq Baloch joined from 3 Verulam Buildings in October 2024.
London Bar > International arbitration: counsel
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 4Dan Sarooshi KC –Essex Court Chambers ‘Among the handful of the finest advocates at the Bar on matters of public and private international law.’
London Bar > Administrative law and human rights
(Leading Silks)Ranked: Tier 3Dan Sarooshi KC –Essex Court Chambers ‘A powerful advocate who is undeterred by difficult arguments; a real force in the field.’
Essex Court Chambers is a noteworthy set in the human rights space, with the team of ‘excellent human rights and public law practitioners‘ often instructed in high-profile cases with crossover public international law issues. Dan Sarooshi KC is ‘very knowledgeable and has good judgement‘. In a prominent case highlight, Hugh Mercer KC and Naomi Hart acted for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission as intervener on behalf of the applicants in Dillon and Ors v Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, a challenge concerning the Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023. The case involved issues of the UK’s obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, the Windsor Framework and the Good Friday Agreement.