Dan Sarooshi
Dan Sarooshi (barrister, academic) | |
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Alma mater | University of New South Wales, London School of Economics, King's College London |
Dan Sarooshi KC is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Oxford where he has taught since 2003, an English barrister and Senior Research Fellow of The Queen's College (Oxford), known for his expertise in international law, investment treaty arbitration, and constitutional law.[1]
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Career
A graduate of the University of New South Wales in Australia, Dan Sarooshi studied at the London School of Economics and read law at King's College London. He was awarded an honorary MA from the University of Oxford. Dan Sarooshi has argued over 90 cases as advocate and counsel for States, international organisations, and corporations in international courts (International Court of Justice, ECtHR, WTO, UN Tribunals), investment arbitrations (ICSID, ICSID AF, ECT, PCA, NAFTA, ICC, UNCITRAL, and LCIA), and highest domestic courts in the UK, Hong Kong, and Bahamas. Has a track record of success in high profile cases. Clients include 23 States (e.g. UK and USA), 22 international organisations, and corporations (e.g. BAT, Exxon Mobil, Hitachi, & Tesco).
Cases
Cases include:
- Acted for UAE in the International Court of Justice (see UN Web TV https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1j/k1jb4b7yg).
- Successfully acted for USA in 8 separate State immunity cases in the UK, including two appeals.
- Successfully acted for UK in the Elgin Marbles – Parthenon Sculptures dispute.
- Successfully acted for ExxonMobil in investment treaty arbitration against Canada.
- Successfully acted for Venezuela's Central Bank in UK Supreme Court case re. control of $2 billion of gold held in Bank of England.
- Successfully acted with Lord Pannick KC for Gina Miller in UK Supreme Court “Brexit case”.
- Successfully acted for UK in European Court of Human Rights.
- Acted for investor in a gold mine in a PCA arbitration against Kazakhstan.
- Successfully acted for large-scale farmers in ICSID arbitration against Zimbabwe.
- Acted for steel plant owners in ICSID arbitration against Montenegro.
- Successfully acted for State oil company in commercial/State immunity case.
- Acted in case which changed UK State immunity law to allow Embassies to be sued by employees.
- Successfully acted for International Oil Pollution Fund in London obtaining dismissal of $60 million case.
- Acted in billion pound judicial review case of UK “plain packaging” regulation of cigarette sales.[2]
Israel–Palestine
Dan Sarooshi: "Israel hasn't consented" |
On 23 February 2024, Professor Dan Sarooshi, the UK’s representative at the International Court of Justice, asked the ICJ not to offer the Advisory Opinion requested by the UN General Assembly on the legal consequences arising from the policies and practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory including East Jerusalem, saying:
- "Israel has not consented to the main points of the dispute being resolved by this Court.
- "To the contrary, it has asked the Court to refuse to respond to the request.
- "Given the content of the request that's currently formulated, there is thus no basis on which the Court should answer it."[3]
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