Mahnoush Arsanjani

Function(s)

President, World Bank Administrative Tribunal

Area(s) of Expertise

• Public international law
• International organizations
• Treaties
• Law of the Sea
• International investment law

Biography

• Served in the legal office of the United Nations for 32 years; last position held, Director of Codification Division, Office of Legal Affairs United Nations; Secretary of the International Law Commission and Secretary of the Committee of the Whole, Rome Conference on the Establishment of the International Criminal Court.
• Member, Expert Group Established by the 2008 Ad Hoc Energy Ministers Meetings Held in Jeddah and London (Enhancing the Framework of Dialogue Among Oil and Gas Producer and Consumer Countries- International Energy Forum 2008-2009).
• Consultant, International Energy Forum, Charter of the International Energy Forum 2010.
• Member, Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry 2011.
• Member, Board of Editors, American Journal of International Law; Editorial Board, International Criminal Law Series; Member, International Advisory Board of the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong, 2007-2015; Member, Board of Editors, Studies in Intercultural Human Rights.
• Judge, World Bank Administrative Tribunal (2013- ).
• Expert, Institute for Integrated Transitions.
• Consultant, international law, international investment law.
• LLB. From National University of Tehran, LLM and JSD from Yale Law School.
• Member, New York and Connecticut Bars.

Selected publications

Books

• International Regulation of Internal Resources:  A Study of Law and Policy (University of Virginia Press, 1981).
• International Law in Contemporary Perspective (2004, Foundation Press, Co-authored with W. Michael Reisman, Siegfried Wiessner & Gayle Westerman).
• Looking to the Future: Essays on International Law in Honor of W. Michael Reisman (2010, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Co-Edited with Jacob Katz Cogan, Robert D. Sloane & Siegfried Wiessner).

 

Articles

• “Claims Against International Organizations: Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes”, 7 Yale Journal of World Public Order 131-176 (1981).
• “Codification of the Law of State Responsibility”, Proceedings of the American Society of International Law (1989).
• “Quest for an International Liability Regime for the Protection of the Global Commons”, (with W. Michael Reisman) in International Law: Theory and Practice, (K. Wellens ed.) 1998, PP.469-492.
• “The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court”, 92 American Journal of International Law, 22-43 (1999).
• “The Utility and Limits of Illusion in International Politics” in Looking to the Future: Essays on International Law in Honor of W. Michael Reisman (2010- Mahnoush H. Arsanjani, Jacob Katz Cogan, Robert D. Sloane & Siegfried Wiessner eds.).
• “Interpreting Treaties for the Benefit of Third Parties: The “Salvors’ Doctrine” and the Use of Legislative History in Investment Treaties,” (with W. Michael Reisman), 104:4 American Journal of International Law, p. 597 (2010).
• “Provisional Application of Treaties in International Law: The Energy Charter Treaty Awards”, (with W. Michael Reisman), in The Law of Treaties Beyond the Vienna Convention (E. Cannizzaro, ed.) p. 86 (2011).
• “The United Nations and International Law-Making”, Inaugural Lecture, The Hague Academy, (July 2012), Recueil des Cours, vol. 162, 2014, pages 12-39.
• “Applicable Law under the ICSID Convention: The Tortured History of the Interpretation of ICSID Article 42… (with W. Michael Reisman), in Building International Investment Law: The First 50 Years of ICSID (M. Kinnear, et al, (ICSID, Kluwer Law International, pp. 3-11 (2016).