Profile

Qualifications

LLD PhD LLM (London), LLM (Yale), LLB (Ceylon), Advocate (Ceylon), Solicitor (England & Wales)

M Sornarajah LLM (Yale) LLD (London) was Head of the Law School of the University of Tasmania prior to joining the NUS Law School where he is a Professor of Law. He was Sterling Fellow at the Yale Law School, Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law, Cambridge and 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 is Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Petroleum and Natural Resources Law at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He is Visiting Professor at the World Trade Institute of the Universities of Berne and Neuchatel, Switzerland. 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) and The Settlement of Foreign Investment Disputes (2001). He is 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.