Chester Brown

About/Bio

Professor Chester Brown is Professor of International Law and International Arbitration at the University of Sydney Law School, and the Co-Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law. He is also a Barrister at 7 Wentworth Selborne Chambers, Sydney, and an Overseas Associate of Essex Court Chambers, London, and Maxwell Chambers, Singapore. He teaches and researches in the fields of public international law, international dispute settlement, international arbitration, international investment law, and private international law. He also maintains a practice in these fields, and has been involved as counsel in proceedings before the International Court of Justice, the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, inter-State and investor-State arbitral tribunals, as well as in inter-State conciliation proceedings and international commercial arbitrations.

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Lack of Consistency and Coherence in the Interpretation of Legal Issues

Editors' Note:  This is the last post in our ongoing series of posts (see introduction here, first post on costs here, second post on duration of proceedings here, third post on the diversity deficit in investment arbitration here, fourth post on the impartiality and independence of arbitrators here,…

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Comment on Yuval Shany, ‘No Longer a Weak Department of Power?’

Dr Chester Brown is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, where he is a Programme Coordinator for the Master of International Law. His research interests are public international law, international dispute settlement, international arbitration, international investment law, and private international law. Dr Brown is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England…

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