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Sam Wordsworth KC

020 7813 8000 swordsworth@essexcourt.com

Position

In private practice as a barrister since 1997, specialising in public international law, including investment treaty arbitration. Regularly advises and appears as counsel before international courts and tribunals including the International Court of Justice, and also before the English courts in matters involving public international law.

He has been instructed on many ICSID, ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, NAI and ad hoc arbitrations as well as in arbitrations before the Iran/US Claims Tribunal and claims before the UNCC. He is regularly instructed by the UK government on cases involving public international law (before international tribunals, the ECtHR, the CJEU and in the domestic courts).

He is a visiting professor teaching investment arbitration at Kings College, London.

Career

Called 1997, Lincoln’s Inn (prior to which, qualified as solicitor in 1991); avocat at the Paris bar in 1994; visiting professor, investment arbitration, King’s College, London.

Languages

Fluent French (written and oral).

Memberships

American Society of International Law; British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Public International Law Advisory Panel; Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR).

Education

University College, London (BA (First Class Hons)); London School of Economics (LLM).