Dan Sarooshi, KC
Professor of Public International Law
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Public International Law @ Oxford
Biography
Professor Dan Sarooshi KC is Professor of Public International Law, University of Oxford; and Senior Research Fellow, The Queen's College, Oxford. He joined the University in 2003 and was promoted to a full Professorship in 2006.
Book Awards: Twice awarded the American Society of International Law book prize (the "Certificate of Merit"); Myres McDougal Prize by American Society for the Policy Sciences; and the (biennial) Guggenheim Prize by Swiss Guggenheim Foundation. Shorter works, e.g., 125 pp. piece with Dame Rosalyn Higgins GBE QC, “Institutional Modes of Conflict Management” (2015). Co-General Editor/co-author of Oppenheim’s International Law: The Law of Peace (OUP, 10th ed.) (forthc'g: in preparation) with Sir Christopher Greenwood GBE QC.
Appointments: by UK-EU to list of arbitrators to hear Brexit-related disputes under the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement (2020-); Queen's Counsel (2018-); WTO Dispute Settlement List of Panellists (nominated by UK/EU) (2006-); British Institute of International & Comparative Law Board of Trustees (2022-); ASIL Counsellor (2018-) and ASIL Executive Council (2008-2011); Director, Hague Academy of International Law ("HAIL") Research Centre (English & French), 2011; Director of Studies for Taught Courses, HAIL, 2005. Delivered the course of HAIL Lectures on “The Immunities of States and International Organizations in Domestic Courts”, July 2018.
Eight of his former DPhil supervisees have had their DPhil theses published as monographs by leading academic publishers.
Publications
Sarooshi D, ‘Federalism Strikes Back: Brexit and the Potential Decline of the One-Voice Doctrine?’ (2019) 113 Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting 124
SAROOSHI D and Volterra R, ‘The resolution of investment disputes by arbitration: risks facing host States’ [2018] Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law
Sarooshi D, ‘Provisional Measures and Investment Treaty Arbitration’ (2014) 29(3) Arbitration International 361
Sarooshi D, ‘Investment Treaty Arbitration and the World Trade Organization: What Role for Systemic Values in the Resolution of International Economic Disputes?’ (2014) 49(3) Texas International Law Journal 445
Sarooshi D, ‘When international financial institutions arbitrate: what law governs international investment arbitration’ (2012) 27(Nov) Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 612
Sarooshi D, ‘The Recourse to the Use of Force by the United Nations’’ (2010) 104 American Society of International Law Proceedings 1
Sarooshi D, ‘The Role of Domestic Public Law Analogies in the Law of International Organizations’ (2008) 5(2) International Organizations Law Review 237
Sarooshi D, ‘The Move from Institutions: the case of the WTO’ (2006) 100 American Society of International Law Proceedings 298
Sarooshi D, ‘The Future of the WTO and its Dispute Settlement System’’ [2005] 2(1) International Organizations Law Review 129
Sarooshi D, ‘Sovereignty, Economic Autonomy, the United States, and the International Trading System: Representations of a Relationship’ (2004) 15(4) European Journal of International Law 651
Sarooshi D, ‘The Essentially Contested Nature of the Concept of Sovereignty: Implications for the Exercise by International Organizations of Delegated Powers of Government’ (2004) 25 Michigan Journal of International Law 1107
Sarooshi D, ‘Conferrals by States of Powers on International Organizations: The Case of Agency’ (2004) 74 The British Year Book of International Law 291
Fitzmaurice M and Sarooshi D, ‘Preface’ [2004] Issues of State Responsibility before International Judicial Institutions: The Clifford Chance Lectures: Volume 7 vii
Sarooshi D, ‘The Nature of the Concept of Sovereignty: Implications for the Exercise by International Organizations of Powers of Government’’ (2004) 25 Michigan Journal of International Law 1107
Sarooshi D, ‘Prosecutorial Policy and the ICC: Prosecutor’s Proprio Motu Action or Self-Denial?’’ (2004) 2(4) Journal of International Criminal Justice 940
Sarooshi D, ‘The Landmark WTO US v. Mexico case’ (2004) 36 Commonwealth Secretariat Trade Topics 1
Sarooshi D and Volterra R, ‘The WTO and the Importance of International Law for Business’ (2004) March Special Feature – WTO, European Lawyer 27
Sarooshi D, ‘Some Preliminary Remarks on the Conferral by States of Powers on International Organizations’ (2003) 4 New York University Jean Monnet Working Paper 25569
Evans M and Sarooshi D, ‘II. Command Responsibility and the Blaskic Case’ (2001) 50(2) International and Comparative Law Quarterly 452
Sarooshi D, ‘Aspects of the relationship between the international criminal court and the United Nations’ (2001) 32 Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 27
Sarooshi D, ‘Command Responsibility and the Blaskic case’ (2001) 50 ICLQ 452
Sarooshi D, ‘The UN and the Establishment of Peace’’ (2000) 53 Current Legal Problems 621
Sarooshi D, ‘The Role of the UN Secretary-General in UN Peace-Keeping’ (2000) 20 Australian Yearbook of International Law 279
Sarooshi D, ‘What Role For NATO in the Maintenance of Peace?’’ (1999) 52 Current Legal Problems 473
Sarooshi D, ‘The Statute of the International Criminal Court’’ (1999) 48 ICLQ 387
Sarooshi D, ‘The Powers of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals’ (1998) 2 Max Planck Yearbook of UN Law 141
Sarooshi D, ‘The Legal Framework Governing United Nations Subsidiary Organs’ (1996) 67 The British Year Book of International Law 413
SAROOSHI D and others, Remedies and Responsibility for the Actions of International Organizations (DAN SAROOSHI ed., Brill, Nijhoff 2014)
Sarooshi D, International Organizations and their Exercise of Sovereign Powers (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2007)
Sarooshi D, International Organizations and Their Exercise of Sovereign Powers (Oxford Monographs in International Law Series) (OUP 2005) 176
Fitzmaurice M and Sarooshi D, Issues of State Responsibility before International Judicial Institutions: The Clifford Chance Lectures: Volume 7 (2004) 1
Sarooshi D and Fitzmaurice M, Issues of State Responsibility before International Judicial Institutions (Clifford Chance Series Volume VII 2004)
Sarooshi D, Public International Law Subject Guide, 2nd ed. (University of London 2000) 26665
Sarooshi D, United Nations and the Development of Collective Security: the Delegation by the UN Security Council of its Chapter VII Powers (OUP 2000)
SAROOSHI D, ‘The Legal Capacity and Powers of International Organizations’ in I Hurd, I Johnstone and JK Cogan (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations (Oxford University Press 2020)
SAROOSHI D, ‘The Legal Capacity and Powers of International Organizations’ in I Hurd, I Johnstone and JK Cogan (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations (Oxford University Press 2020)
SAROOSHI D, Higgins R and Webb P, ‘Institutional Modes of Conflict Management’ in J Norton Moore, G Roberts and R Turner (eds.), National Security Law (Carolina Academic Press 2015)
SAROOSHI D, ‘Responsibility, Immunities, and Remedies for the Acts of International Organizations’ in D SAROOSHI (ed.), Responsibility, Immunities, and Remedies for the Acts of International Organizations (Brill Nijhoff 2014)
Sarooshi D, ‘International Organizations: Personality, Immunities, Responsibility, and Remedies’ (2014)
Sarooshi D, ‘The United Nations Security Council’ in J Krieger and others (eds.), The Oxford Companion to International Relations (2014)
SAROOSHI D, ‘Responsibility, Immunities, and Remedies for the Acts of International Organizations’, Responsibility of International Organizations Essays in Memory of Sir Ian Brownlie (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2013)
Sarooshi D, ‘7. International Organizations and State Responsibility’, Responsibility of International Organizations (Brill Academic Publishers 2013)
Sarooshi D and Tzanakopoulos A, ‘International Organizations Before United Kingdom Courts’ (2012)
Sarooshi D, ‘The United Nations Security Council’ in J Krieger and E al (eds.), The Oxford Companion to International Relations (Oxford University Press 2012)
Sarooshi D, ‘The Security Council’s Authorization of Regional Arrangements to Use Force’ in V Lowe, A Roberts and J Welsh (eds.), The United Nations Security Council and War (Oxford University Press 2008)
Sarooshi D, ‘The World Trade Organization’ in P Cane and J Conaghan (eds.), The New Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford University Press 2008)
Sarooshi D, ‘International Economic Law’ in P Cane and J Conaghan (eds.), The New Oxford Companion to Law (Oxford University Press 2008)
Sarooshi D, ‘International Criminal Justice: An Institutional Future?’ in M Cohen (ed.), La promotion de la justice, des droits de l’homme et du règlement des conflits par le droit international (2006)
Judge R. Higgins DBE Q and Sarooshi D, ‘Institutional Modes of Conflict Management’ in J Norton Moore, F Tipson and R Turner (eds.), National Security Law (Carolina Academic Press 2005)
Sarooshi D, ‘The Peace and Justice Paradox: The International Criminal Court and the UN Security Council’ in D McGoldrick, P Rowe and E Donnelly (eds.), The Permanent International Criminal Court (Hart Publishing 2004)
Sarooshi D, ‘Reform of the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding’ in I Mbirimi, B.Chilala and R Grynberg (eds.), From Doha to Cancun: Delivering a Development Round (Commonwealth Secretariat 2003)
Sarooshi D, ‘The WTO Telecommunications Regime and Commonwealth Developing Countries’ in E Turner and R Grynberg (eds.), Multilateral and Regional Trade Issues for Developing Countries (in E. Turner and R. Grynberg, eds., Multilateral and Regional Trade Issues for Developing Countries 2003)
Sarooshi D, ‘International Law and Peace between the Nations’ in R O’Dair and A Lewis (eds.), Current Legal Issues (2001)
Sarooshi D, ‘The United Nations Security Council’ in J Krieger (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (OUP 2001)
Sarooshi D, ‘Aspects of the World Trade Organization’s Telecommunications Regime’ (TECHNOLOGY DISPUTES INTERNATIONAL, 1 January 2009)
Sarooshi D, ‘The Blaskic Case’ (2002) 122 The International Law Reports 1 (case-note)
Sarooshi D, ‘Aspects of the World Trade Organization’s Telecommunications Regime’ (2000) Technology Disputes International 2
Sarooshi D, ‘Humanitarian Intervention and Humanitarian Assistance: Law and Practice’ (Wilton Park Papers (HMSO) 1994)