Brief Biodata

M Sornarajah is CJ Koh Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore and the Tunku Abdul Rahman Professor of International Law at the University of Malaya at Kuala Lumpur. He was,previously, Head of the Law School of the University of Tasmania, Australia. He studied law at the University of Ceylon, the London School of Economics, King’s College, London and the Yale Law School. He was Sterling Fellow at the Yale Law School, Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law, Cambridge and at the Max Planck Institut fur Offentliches Auslandisches Recht at Heidelburg, Germany. He was International Law Fellow and Visiting Professor at American University at Washington DC. He was Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Petroleum and Natural Resources Law at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He was a Visiting Professor at the World Trade Institute of the Universities of Berne and Neuchatel, Switzerland, at Kyushu University, Japan and at the Georgetown Centre for Transnational Legal Studies, London.

He is the author of The Pursuit of Nationalized Property (Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, 1986); International Commercial Arbitration (Longman, 1992); The Law of International Joint Ventures (Longman, 1994); The International Law on Foreign Investment (Cambridge University Press, 1996, 2nd ed.,2004, third edition forthcoming, 2010) and The Settlement of Foreign Investment Disputes (Kluwer, The Hague,2001). He is joint editor of China, India and the International Economic Law (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). He was the Director of the UNCTAD/WTO Programme on Investment Treaties, Pretoria and New Delhi. He is a Fellow of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration and is on the Regional Panel of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre. He has been arbitrator or counsel in several leading arbitrations and has published extensively in the areas of international commercial arbitration, public international law and international investment law. He is an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Ceylon, an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Singapore and Solicitor of the High Court of England and Wales. He is an Honorary Member of the Indian Society of International Law.