Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah

Who is Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah?

Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah, is a legal academic. He is the C. J. Koh Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore, the Tunku Abdul Rahman Professor of Law at the University of Malaya, and the former head of the school of law at the University of Tasmania.

Sornarajah atteended the Royal College Colombo and received law degrees from the University of Ceylon, Yale University, and the University of London. 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. 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 from 1998 to 2000.

His book, The International Law on Foreign Investment, is the leading text on this area of the law which deals with issues of protection of foreign investments made by multinational corporations. His other books include Law of International Joint Ventures and The Pursuit of Nationalized Property.

Sornarajah has been a member of the advisory panel of the Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam, and in 2011 he was appointed to its Ethics Commission. He also belongs to the Board of Advisors of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Project on Dispute Settlement.