Hussein Haeri
Partner
Hussein is a partner in the international arbitration and public international law teams.
Hussein jointly leads the firm’s international arbitration team and leads the firm’s public international law team. He is a Solicitor-Advocate of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. He has experience of working on international legal and dispute resolution matters in London, Paris, New York and South Africa for over 14 years.
Hussein is recognised in Who’s Who Legal (Arbitration: Future Leaders) which notes that he is ‘an amazing lawyer and thorough professional’ and ‘one of the most brilliant international public law specialists out there.’ He is recognised by Legal 500 as a Next Generation Lawyer for International Arbitration and Public International Law, which states that ‘The practical and solutions driven Haeri is outstanding’ and that ‘He combines huge intellectual powers with great client handling and gives straight-to-the-point advice’.
Legal Business Disputes Yearbook says that Hussein is ‘a name that is destined to join the pantheon of stars in the international arbitration arena’.
He has worked as counsel and advocate on arbitrations under all the major rules, including ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA, ICC, SCC and SIAC Rules, as well as in ad hoc arbitrations. His clients include governments, multinational corporations and international organisations.
He has served as counsel in state-state proceedings before the International Court of Justice and in national courts, including the courts of England and Wales, on public international law issues.
Hussein’s public international law practice includes advising governments and international organisations on international investment law, constitutional and human rights matters, sovereign immunity, energy and natural resources, international humanitarian law, sanctions, the law of the sea and treaty and legislation drafting.
Hussein is a Member of the Faculty at the University of Rome, Roma Tre University, Certificate in International Commercial and Investment Arbitration. He has taught international arbitration and public international law to graduate students at the London School of Economics, Kings College London and University College London in the UK and at Sciences Po and the University of Versailles in France.
He has published extensively in the fields of international law and international arbitration.
Track record
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Publications
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Talks
Scholz GmbH v Kingdom of Morocco Counsel of the Claimant in an ICSID arbitration related to a metals recycling business.
Asian investor v Sub-Saharan African State Counsel of the Claimant in an UNCITRAL arbitration related to a free trade zone.
Advising a State on proceedings before the International Court of Justice concerning a human rights treaty.
England and Wales, 2008
"And You Are?: Dual Nationals in Investment Treaty Arbitration", BCDR International Arbitration Review, Wolters Kluwer, 2016.
‘The Non-Disputing State Party in Investment Arbitration: An Interested Player on the Third Man Out’ in Practicing Virtue: Inside International Arbitration (Editors: D. Caron, S. Schill, A. Smutny and E. Triantafilou), Oxford University Press, Oxford - 2015
‘Investment Treaty Arbitration increasingly utilized’, Connecticut Law Tribune, March 2017
ICC Task Force on Trusts and Arbitration
London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
LCIA Arab Users’ Council
Arbitrator Panellist at Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration
‘Renewing the Relationship between Treaty and Custom in International Investment Law’, BIICL Investment Treaty Forum (ITF) Conference - March 2019
‘Investment Arbitration: Five Controversies’, SOAS, University of London - October 2017
‘Investment Arbitration in Ukraine and the CIS’, Law Society of England and Wales - March 2017
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