Professor Dan Sarooshi

Professor of Public International Law, Faculty of Law, The Queen's College

Dan Sarooshi is also a Fellow of the Queen's College, Oxford; an FRSA; and co-General Editor of the Oxford Monographs in International Law Series. He was elected in 2008 to membership of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law.

His books include International Organizations and Their Exercise of Sovereign Powers (OUP, 2005), The UN and the Development of Collective Security (OUP, 1999), and the co-edited State Responsibility Before International Judicial Institutions (Hart, 2004). The first two of these books have been awarded the 2000 (biennial) Guggenheim Prize by the Guggenheim Foundation in Switzerland; the 2001 American Society of International Law Book Prize; the 2006 Myres S. McDougal Prize awarded by the American Society for the Policy Sciences; and the 2006 American Society of International Law Book Prize.

Professor Sarooshi has co-authored with Judge Dame Rosalyn Higgins FBA, QC, former President of the International Court of Justice, the long chapter entitled ‘Institutional Modes of Conflict Management’ in National Security Law (2005) (108 pp.). He is presently co-authoring with H.E. Sir Christopher Greenwood QC of the International Court of Justice the leading work, Oppenheim’s International Law, Peace (10th edition, Oxford University Press) (in preparation).

He was appointed by the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2006 to the WTO Dispute Settlement List of Panellists after joint nomination by the United Kingdom Government and the European Communities.

Publications

Selected Books:

'The Separation of Powers of Government and the Immunities of States and International Organizations from National Courts: The Role of Non-Justiciability as a Mediating Principle' (2013) (forthcoming)

'‘The Recourse to the Use of Force by the United Nations’' (2010) 104 American Society of International Law Proceedings 1

'The Role of Domestic Public Law Analogies in the Law of International Organizations' (2008) 5 International Organizations Law Review 237

International Organizations and Their Exercise of Sovereign Powers (Oxford Monographs in International Law Series) (OUP 2007) This 2005 hardback edition of this book was awarded the 2006 Myres S. McDougal Prize by the American Society for Policy Sciences, and also the 2006 American Society of International Law book prize (Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship). ISBN: 978-0-19-922577-4

Issues of State Responsibility before International Judicial Institutions (ed. with M. Fitzmaurice) (Hart Publishing, Clifford Chance Series vol.7, 2004)

The UN and the Development of Collective Security: the Delegation by the United Nations Security Council of its Chapter VII Powers (OUP, 2000, paperback) 1999 (hardcover). (This book was awarded the 1999 Guggenheim Book Prize and the 2001 American Society of International Law book prize).

Selected recent articles and book chapters:

‘The Law and Practice of the World Trade Organization’ in J. Klabbers, ed., The Research Handbook on International Organizations (2011)

D Sarooshi, '‘The Recourse to the Use of Force by the United Nations’' (2010) 104 American Society of International Law Proceedings

'The World Trade Organization’ in P. Cane, ed., The New Oxford Companion to Law (OUP, 2008)

‘International Economic Law’ in P. Cane, ed., The New Oxford Companion to Law OUP, 2008)

‘The Security Council’s Authorization of Regional Bodies to Use Force’ in V. Lowe, A. Roberts, and J. Welsh, eds., The United Nations Security Council and War (OUP ,2008) Chapter 5

‘The Move from Institutions: the case of the WTO’, 100 American Society of International Law Annual Conference Proceedings (2006)

‘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) pp. 421-436.

‘Institutional Modes of Conflict Management', (co-authored with Judge R. Higgins DBE, QC) in J. Norton Moore, F. Tipson, and R. Turner, eds., National Security Law (2005), Chapter 5

'The Future of the WTO and its Dispute Settlement System’, 1(2) International Organizations Law Review (2005) pp. 129-151

'Conferrals by States of Powers on International Organizations: The Case of Agency', 74 British Year Book of International Law (2004), pp. 291-332

‘The Essentially Contested Nature of the Concept of Sovereignty: Implications for the Exercise by International Organizations of Powers of Government', 25 Michigan Journal of International Law (2004), p.1107

‘Prosecutorial Policy and the ICC: Prosecutor’s Proprio Motu Action or Self-Denial?’, 2(4) Journal of International Criminal Justice (2004) pp. 940-943

'Sovereignty, Economic Autonomy, the United States, and the International Trading System: Representations of a Relationship', 15(4) European Journal of International Law (2004), p.651

‘The Landmark WTO US v. Mexico case’, Commonwealth Secretariat Trade Topics, Issue 36 (2004) pp. 1-8

‘The Peace and Justice Paradox: The International Criminal Court and the UN Security Council’ in D. McGoldrick and P. Rowe, eds., The Permanent International Criminal Court (Hart, 2004) pp. 95-120

‘The WTO and the Importance of International Law for International Business’, Special Feature – WTO, European Lawyer (March 2004), (Co-authored with R. Volterra), pp. 27-30

'Reform of the World Trade Organisation Dispute Settlement Understanding', in I. Mbirimi, B. Chilala, and R. Grynberg, eds., From Doha to Cancun: Delivering a Development Round (Commonwealth Secretariat, 2003), p.105

‘Some Preliminary Remarks on the Conferral by States of Powers on International Organizations’, New York University Jean Monnet Working Paper Series (No.4, 2003) pp. 1-70

‘The WTO Telecommunications Regime and Commonwealth Developing Countries’ in E. Turner and R. Grynberg, eds., Multilateral and Regional Trade Issues for Developing Countries (2003) pp. 9-20

'The Blaskic case', 122 The International Law Reports (2002) pp. 1-8

'Aspects of the Relationship between the International Criminal Court and the United Nations', 32 Netherlands Yearbook of International Law (2001), p.27

'Command Responsibility and the Blaskic case', 50 International & Comparative Law Quarterly (2001), p.452

'The United Nations Security Council', in J. Krieger, ed., The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (OUP, 2001), p.759

‘International Law and Peace between the Nations', in R. O'Dair and A. Lewis, eds., Current Legal Issues (OUP, 2001), p.497

'The United Nations Collective Security System and the Establishment of Peace', 53 Current Legal Problems (2000), p.621

Public International Law Subject Guide (2000, 2nd ed. 1996, 1st ed, University of London).

'The Role of the United Nations Secretary-General in United Nations Peace-Keeping Operations', 20 Australian Year Book of International Law (1999), p.279

'The Statute of the International Criminal Court', 48 International & Comparative Law Quarterly (1999), p.387.

'The United Nations System for the Maintenance of International Peace: What Role For Regional Organisations such as NATO?', 52 Current Legal Problems (1999), p.473

'The Powers of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals', 2 Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law (1998), p.141