Surya P. Subedi, QC
- Nationalité
- Népal
- Année d'élection
- 2011
- Année membre titulaire
- 2015
- Commissions
Fonction(s) actuelle(s)
Professor of International Law
Barrister, Three Stone Chambers, London
Chair, Board of Editors of the Asian Journal of International Law
Domaine(s) d’expertise
- International Investment Law
- Law of the Sea
- International Watercourses Law
- International Human Rights Law
- WTO Law
Biographie
Professor Surya P. Subedi, OBE, KC is Professor of International Law at the University of Leeds, UK, Honorary Fellow at Exeter College of the University of Oxford and a Barrister at Three Stone Chambers, Lincoln’s Inn, London. He has acted as a counsel in a number of cases before the international courts and tribunals, including the International Court of Justice and the Permanent Court of Arbitration. In 2022, he was appointed to the list of arbitrators under a post-Brexit comprehensive free trade agreement of the UK with the EU – the Trade and Cooperation Agreement.
From 2009 to 2015, Professor Subedi served as the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Cambodia. He also served for five years, starting in 2010, on an advisory group on human rights to the British Foreign Secretary. Professor Subedi also served as Legal Procedural Adviser to the World Conservation Congress of the International Union for Conservation of Nature held in Marseille, France, in 2021 where he contributed to bringing different groupings of states into alignment on many contested environmental and conservations issues.
He has published 12 books and more than 60 scholarly articles in all major areas of international law in leading international law journals. His publications are focused on promoting fairness in international relations, strengthening the rules-based international order, and advancing human rights.
Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the UK appointed Professor Subedi as a Queen’s Counsel (QC) (Hon) in 2017 and made an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2004 for his services to international law. He obtained an LLB from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, in 1981, an LLM with Distinction from the University of Hull in 1988, and a DPhil (PhD) in law with a prize from the University of Oxford in 1993. He was awarded Oxford’s highest accolade – the degree of Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) – in 2019 in recognition of his contribution to international law and human rights. The judges of the award panel at Oxford described him as “a scholar of uncommon breadth of knowledge and depth of thinking in international law” when deciding to award him the DCL. In 2020, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) honoris causa by the University of Hull.
Publications sélectionnées
Books
International Investment Law: Reconciling Policy and Principle (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 1st edition in 2008; 2nd edition in 2012; and 3rd edition in 2016).
The Effectiveness of the UN Human Rights System: Reform and the Judicialisation of Human Rights’ (Routledge, London/New York, 2017).
International Watercourses Law for the 21st Century: The Case of the River Ganges Basin, (Ashgate Publishing, UK, 2005).
Book Chapters
‘International Investment Law’, in Malcolm Evans (ed.), International Law (Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 2014), pp.727-751.
‘WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism as a New Technique for Settling Disputes in International Law’, in Duncan French, Matthew Saul and Nigel D. White (eds.), International Law and Dispute Settlement: New Problems and Techniques (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2010), pp.173-190.
‘An Innovative Solution to an Ambitious Project: Dispute Resolution in the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea’, in Charles C. Jalloh and Olufemi Elias (eds.), Shielding Humanity: Essays in International Law in Honour of Judge Abdul G. Koroma (Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, The Hague, 2015), pp.163-186.
Journal articles
‘India’s New Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Treaty with Nepal: A New Trend in State Practice’ ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal (Oxford University Press), Vol. 28 (2), Fall, 2013, pp.384-404.
‘The Challenge of Reconciling the Competing Principles within the Law of Foreign Investment with Special Reference to the Recent Trend in the Interpretation of the Term “Expropriation”’ International Lawyer (A journal of the American Bar Association’s International Law Section); Spring 2006; Vol. 40 (1), pp.121-141.
‘Problems and Prospects for the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf in Dealing with Submissions by Coastal States in Relation to the Ocean Territory Beyond 200 Nautical Miles’, 26 The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,, The Hague, 2011), pp.413–431.
‘The UN Human Rights Special Rapporteurs and the Impact of their Work: Some Reflections of the UN Special Rapporteur for Cambodia’, 6 (1) Asian Journal of International Law (Cambridge University Press, January 2016), pp.1-14.
