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About Surya Subedi
- Surya P.
- Subedi, DCL, QC, OBE (born on 23 January 1958) is an international jurist.
- He is Professor of International Law at the University of Leeds, a visiting professor on the Master's programme on international human rights law at the University of Oxford and a practising Barrister at Three Stone Chambers, Lincoln's Inn, London.
- He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) by the University of Oxford in 2019.
- Prior to this, he had obtained a PhD in Law at Oxford (known as DPhil at Oxford) with a prize in 1993.
- He was appointed a Queen's Counsel (QC) honoris causa in 2017.
- He was elected to the Institut de Droit International in 2011.
- He has published a number of works on international law and taught at several universities in the UK, the Netherlands, and the United States. He has advised governments in several countries on international legal matters.
- He has been a human rights adviser to the British Foreign Secretary and was from 2009 to 2015 the UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in Cambodia.
- He has been a member of a Task Force on Investment Policy of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Subedi has published eight books and more than 60 scholarly articles in several areas of international law in a number of international law journals.
- His publications include a book entitled 'The Effectiveness of the UN Human Rights System: Reform and the Judicialisation of Human Rights', which covers the rationale and effectiveness of UN human rights mechanisms and suggests measures to reform them.
- Another book of his is titled 'International Investment Law: Reconciling Policy and Principle'.
- It deals with the tension between the principles of the law of foreign investment and "other competing principles of international law".
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