Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah (born 24 April 1942)[1] is a legal academic. He is an Emeritus Professor and former C. J. Koh Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore,[2]
the Tunku Abdul Rahman Professor of Law at the University of Malaya,[3] and the former head of the school of law at the University of Tasmania.[4] 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.
His book, The International Law on Foreign Investment (Cambridge University Press), is the leading[6] and a classic[7] text on foreign investment law, which is an area of public international law dealing with issues of protection of investments made by foreign investors currently in its fifth edition.[8]
His other books include Law of International Joint Ventures,[9]The Pursuit of Nationalized Property,[10]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 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Project on Dispute Settlement.[11]