Friday Lecture: 'Human Rights and Investment Arbitration: Cross - Currents or Parallel Streams?' - Hussein Haeri KC is a Partner at Withers

There is a sandwich lunch at 12.30 pm in the Old Library at the Centre. All lecture attendees welcome.

Summary: This lecture examines the theoretical and practical interactions between investment arbitration and international human rights law. Drawing on arbitral and international jurisprudence, it explores situations in which the two fields have pulled in opposing ways, as well as those where the two have operated in parallel directions. The lecture addresses, among other issues, the incorporation of human rights type claims in investment treaty jurisprudence, the treatment of damages, and increasing commonality in the way each is criticised as constraining States’ sovereign rights.

Hussein Haeri KC is a Partner at Withers in London and Head of the firm's Public International Law Group. He is a King's Counsel and was the only Solicitor Advocate to take Silk in 2024. Hussein has extensive experience as counsel and advocate on international dispute resolution matters for over 20 years including in London, Paris and New York and including before the ICJ, ITLOS, under ICSID and UNCITRAL arbitration rules and in national courts. He has been recognised for many years by the major legal directories including Chambers & Partners, which refers to him as an "outstanding lawyer", and Legal 500 which states that "he combines huge intellectual powers with great client handling". He is a Professor of Practice at SOAS, University of London, and a Partner Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law.

Chair: Dr Fernando Lusa Bordin

The Friday Lunchtime Lecture series is kindly supported by Cambridge University Press & Assessment.