Dan Sarooshi
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Dan Sarooshi is Professor of Public International Law in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford.
He holds an MA (Oxon), LLM/BComm (University of New South Wales), LLM (King's College London) and PhD (London School of Economics).
Professor Sarooshi writes on Public International Law and his books include International Organizations and Their Exercise of Sovereign Powers (Oxford University Press, 2005) and The UN and the Development of Collective Security (Oxford University Press, 1999). 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 practices as a barrister from Essex Court Chambers, London in the areas of Public International Law and the law of the World Trade Organization; and in 2008 he was elected to membership of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law.
He was appointed by the World Trade Organization (on the joint nomination of the Government of the United Kingdom and the European Communities) in 2006 to serve as a Member of the roster of Panellists in the system of Dispute settlement in the World Trade Organization.