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Professor Surya P. Subedi O.B.E

Born in 1958, Professor Surya Prasad Subedi is an academic, barrister, author and editor specialising in the fields of Public International law and International Human Rights law. He is a Professor of International Law at the University of Leeds, England, and is currently the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Cambodia.

Early life

Originally from Nepal, Surya Subedi started his education at Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal (LLB 1980 and MA 1984). He then moved to the University of Hull (LLM with Distinction 1988) and finally to the University of Oxford (DPhil in Law 1993).

Career

Surya Subedi began his academic career as a Lecturer in Law in 1993 at the University of Hull. After rapid successive promotions he became a Professor of Law in 1999. He moved to the University of Leeds in 2004 to become Professor of International Law, a post he still holds to date.

Outside the world of academia, he has been the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Cambodia since 2009 and a Member of the British Foreign Secretary’s Advisory Group on Human Rights since 2010. He is a practising Barrister in England at Tanfield Chambers, and prior to qualifying for the English Bar, he was a consultant on international legal matters to Mishcon de Reya Solicitors in London. He has advised a number of countries on international legal matters and was appointed in 2004 by the World Trade Organization to the Roster of Panellists of its Dispute Settlement System.

He has published six books in various areas in international law and a good number of scholarly articles in all major international law journals. He was a General Editor of the Asian Yearbook of International Law (published by Martinus Nijhoff in The Hague) for six years between 1999 and 2006 and is currently an Editor of the Asian Journal of International Law (published by Cambridge University Press).

Honours

Professor Subedi was made an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) by Her Majesty the Queen of the UK in 2004 for his services to international law and to Britain-Nepal relations. Speaking at the OBE investiture on 19 October 2004 in London, Mr. Jack Straw, the then British Foreign Secretary, stated that Professor Subedi had “made a highly distinguished contribution to our understanding of international law, and to its evolution” and his work in international law had "spanned almost every aspect of it - with a special focus on issues ... which make a real difference to people's lives." (Newsletter of the International Law Association (ILA), London, 2005, No. 22, p.10).

Professor Subedi has a string of honours to his credit and has been awarded prestigious academic prizes for his work, including the Dasturzada Pavry Memorial Prize by the University of Oxford for an outstanding DPhil thesis in 1993, an SPTL Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship by the British Society of Legal Scholars for one of his books in 1997 and the Josephine Onoh Memorial Prize as best LLM student of the year by the University of Hull in 1988. He also has won two scholarships- first was a British Council Scholarship to Hull for his LLM studies in 1986 and second was an FCO Scholarship for his doctoral studies at Oxford in 1989.

Selected Works

i. Books

International Investment Law: Reconciling Policy and Principle (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2008).

Dynamics of Foreign Policy and Law: A Study of Indo-Nepal Relations (Oxford University Press, 2005).

International Watercourses Law for the 21st Century: The Case of the River Ganges Basin (Ashgate Publishing, UK, 2005).

Contemporary Issues in International Law: A Collection of the Josephine Onoh Memorial Lectures (edited with Professors David Freestone and Scott Davidson), Kluwer Law International, The Hague/London (2002).

Land and Maritime Zones of Peace in International Law (1996), Oxford Monographs in International Series, Clarendon: Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Land-Locked Nepal in International Law (1989), K. Gautam, Kathmandu, Nepal.

The International Law of the Sea (University of London Press, London, 2007).

International Economic Law (University of London Press, London, 1st edition 2005, and 2nd revised edition 2007).

Nepalese Administrative Law (Ratna Book Publishers, Kathmandu, First edition 1985, Second edition 1987 and Third edition 1989).

ii. Articles

‘Protecting Human Rights through the Mechanism of UN Special Rapporteurs’, 33 Human Rights Quarterly (The John Hopkins University Press, U.S.A.), 2011, pp. 201-228.

‘The Role of the Special Rapporteurs of the United Nations Human Rights Council in the Development and Promotion of International Human Rights Norms’, (with Steven Wheatley et al.) 15 (2) The International Journal of Human Rights (Taylor & Francis, London), 2011, pp.155-161.

`The UN Response to International Terrorism in the Aftermath of the Terrorist Attacks in America and the Problem of the Definition of Terrorism in International Law’, International Law FORUM du droit international: The Journal of the International Law Association Vol. 4 (3), August 2002, pp.158-168

iii. Reports

‘The situation of human rights in Cambodia’, Third Report (it was focussed on Parliament) to the UN Human Rights Council in September 2011 (U.N. Doc. A/HRC/18/46) as the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Cambodia. The situation of human rights in Cambodia’, Second Report (it was focussed on the judiciary) to the UN Human Rights Council in September 2010 (U.N. Doc. A/HRC/15/46) as the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Cambodia.

‘The situation of human rights in Cambodia’, First Report (it was on the general situation of human rights situation in the country) submitted to the UN Human Rights Council in August 2009 (U.N. Doc. A/HRC/12/40) as the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Cambodia.

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