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Specialises in international arbitration (international investment treaty claims and internationl commercial arbitration), public international law and general commercial litigation. Expert in the English laws of obligations.

Before transferring to the Bar in 2014, Tariq was a senior associate within the international arbitration and public international law groups of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. The international dimension of Tariq’s experience is further reinforced by the three years he spent practicing international arbitration in Freshfields’ offices in the Middle East, North Africa region and Paris. Prior to entering the practice, Tariq taught the English law of obligations full-time as an assistant professor at the LSE. He has also developed a practice advising governments and government agencies on a range of PIL issues, including those that sit at the cross-section of law and policy. Tariq regularly speaks and writes on arbitration, public international law, commercial law and legal history topics, including delivering lectures at Harvard Law School and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. Publication of note: ‘Unjust Enrichment and Contract’ (Hart, Oxford 2009).

ICC; LCIA; SCC; ICSID Panel of Arbitrators, UNCITRAL and DIAC.

Queen Mary University; University of London (LLB); Harvard Law School (LLM); University of Oxford (Dphil, PhD).