Essex Court Chambers

Practises as counsel in International Court of Justice, European Court of Human Rights, European Union Court, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, international arbitration tribunals, and courts in UK and Hong Kong. Advisory work for various foreign governments. Practises as arbitrator, mainly in international investment disputes and international boundary disputes. Many publications, mainly on international law.

Called 1993, Gray’s Inn; QC 2007; bencher Gray’s Inn 2008. President/member of various investment tribunals (ICSID, PCA and other). Emeritus Chichele professor of Public International Law and Emeritus fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University.

English, French.

Associe, Institut de droit international; International Law Association; IBA; British Institute of International and Comparative Law; American Society of International Law, etc.

Wales (LLB, LLM, PhD); Cambridge (MA); Oxford (MA).