Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah (born 24 April 1942)Curriculum vitae
from Singapore International Arbitration Centre, retrieved 2011-01-31. is a legal academic. He is an Emeritus Professor and former C. J. Koh Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore, the Tunku Abdul Rahman Professor of Law at the

University of Malaya The University of Malaya ( ms, Universiti Malaya, UM; abbreviated as UM or informally the Malayan University) is a public research university located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is the oldest and highest ranking Malaysian institution of highe ...

, and the former head of the school of law at the

University of Tasmania The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is a public research university, primarily located in Tasmania, Australia. Founded in 1890, it is Australia's fourth oldest university. Christ College, one of the university's residential colleges, first prop ...

.. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Human Rights, London School of Economics. He has been arbitrator, counsel or expert in several leading investment arbitrations. Sornarajah attended the

Royal College Colombo Royal College, Colombo is a selective entry boys' school located in Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Started as a private school by Rev Joseph Marsh in 1835, it was established as the Colombo Academy by Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton in Janu ...

and received law degrees from the

University of Ceylon The University of Ceylon was the only university in Sri Lanka (earlier Ceylon) from 1942 until 1972. It had several constituent campuses at various locations around Sri Lanka. The University of Ceylon Act No. 1 of 1972, replaced it with the Unive ...

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, the

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and King's College London (PhD). He taught at the University of Ceylon from 1966 to 1973, at the University of Tasmania from 1974 to 1984, and the National University of Singapore since 1986. He has also been visiting faculty at several other universities.Curriculum vitae
from National University Singapore, retrieved 2011-01-31. He has been editor-in-chief of two journals, the '' Singapore Journal of Legal Studies'' from 1996 to 2000 and the '' Singapore Journal of International and Comparative Law'' (which he founded) from 1998 to 2000. His book, ''The International Law on Foreign Investment'' (Cambridge University Press), is the leading and a classic text on foreign investment law, which is an area of public international law dealing with issues of protection of foreign investments made by multinational corporations. It is now in its fifth edition. His other books include ''Law of International Joint Ventures'', ''The Pursuit of Nationalized Property'', ''Resistance and Change in the International Law on Foreign Investment'' (Cambridge University Press) and ''The Misery of International Law'' (with John Linarelli and Margot Salomon, Oxford University Press). In 2016, a book of essays in his honour was edited by Lim Chin Leng entitled "Alternative Visions in International Law: Essays in honour of Muthucumraswamy Sornarajah (Cambridge University Press 2016) He has sat as arbitrator on several arbitral tribunals involving foreign investment disputes. He also belongs to the Board of Advisors of the

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Project on Dispute Settlement.Board of advisors of the project on dispute settlement
, UNCTAD, retrieved 2011-01-31.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sornarajah, Muthucumaraswamy 1942 births Living people Alumni of Royal College, Colombo Alumni of the University of Ceylon Yale Law School alumni Alumni of the London School of Economics Alumni of King's College London International law scholars Sri Lankan Tamil academics Academic staff of the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law Academic staff of the University of Malaya Academic staff of the University of Tasmania