Jan Paulsson is head of the public international law and international arbitration groups. He regularly advises governments and corporations around the world with respect to issues of international law. He has been counsel in many hundreds of international arbitrations and sat as arbitrator in some 120 cases. While most of his cases are under the ICC and UNCITRAL Rules, he has also been involved in 23 ICSID cases.
Mr. Paulsson acted as lead counsel to the government of Bahrain in its land and maritime territory dispute with Qatar before the International Court of Justice, and was co-agent of the state of Eritrea in its maritime boundary case against Yemen before the PCA. He appeared as advocate for Barbados in its arbitration in 2005 against Trinidad and Tobago under the Law of the Sea Convention. He is President of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal and of the London Court of International Arbitration. He has acted as lead counsel to the International Olympic Committee in 17 arbitrations.
Mr. Paulsson holds the Ibrahim Shihata Chair as Professor of International Investment Law at the University of Dundee, is a Yorke Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge, and is a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. He also teaches a course at the Institut de Sciences Politiques in Paris.
He is the author of several textbooks and numerous articles on the subject of international arbitration, in particular the standard reference work ICC Arbitration (3rd edition 2000) which he co-authors with Messrs. W.L. Craig and W.W. Park. His monograph Denial of Justice in International Law was published by Cambridge University Press in 2005. He speaks English, French, Spanish and Swedish.
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