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'''Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah''' (born 24 April 1942)<ref name="siac">[http://www.siac.org.sg/cms/images/stories/documents/cv/cv_msornarajah.pdf Curriculum vitae] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722032000/http://www.siac.org.sg/cms/images/stories/documents/cv/cv_msornarajah.pdf |date=2011-07-22 }} from Singapore International Arbitration Centre, retrieved 2011-01-31.</ref> is a legal academic. He is an Emeritus Professor and former C. J. Koh Professor of Law at the [[National University of Singapore]],<ref>[http://law.nus.edu.sg/about_us/faculty/staff/staffdiv.asp NUS law faculty listing], retrieved 2011-01-30.</ref>
the Tunku Abdul Rahman Professor of Law at the [[University of Malaya]],<ref>[http://umfacts.um.edu.my/staffdirectory/index.php?query=Sornarajah&chartType=N Faculty listing] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722232735/http://umfacts.um.edu.my/staffdirectory/index.php?query=Sornarajah&chartType=N |date=2011-07-22 }}, University of Malaya, retrieved 2011-01-30.</ref> and the former head of the school of law at the [[University of Tasmania]].<ref name="lak">{{citation|title=Govt.plays KP card|publisher=Lakbimanews Online|first=Ranga|last=Jayasuriya|url=http://www.lakbimanews.lk/archvi/lakbimanews_10_06_27/defence.htm|date=June 27, 2010|access-date=2011-01-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722145931/http://www.lakbimanews.lk/archvi/lakbimanews_10_06_27/defence.htm|archive-date=2011-07-22|url-status=dead}}.</ref> He is also a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Human Rights, London School of Economics.

Sornarajah attended the [[Royal College Colombo]] and received law degrees from the [[University of Ceylon]], [[Yale University]], the [[London School of Economics]] and [[King's College London]] (PhD). 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.<ref name="cvnus">[https://web.archive.org/web/20120308155612/http://law.nus.edu.sg/about_us/faculty/staff/staffcv/sornarajahcv2009.pdf Curriculum vitae] from National University Singapore, retrieved 2011-01-31.</ref> 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]]'' (which he founded) from 1998 to 2000.<ref name="lak"/><ref name="cvnus"/>

His book, ''The International Law on Foreign Investment'' (Cambridge University Press), is the leading<ref>[https://law.nus.edu.sg/media/professor-m-sornarajah-appointed-emeritus-professor/ NUS Law]</ref> and a classic<ref>[https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/the-international-law-on-foreign-investment/9A020CAE3B47C16AFAE541FCA6D038C3#overview Cambridge University Press]</ref> text on foreign investment law, which is an area of public international law dealing with issues of protection of foreign investments made by multinational corporations. It is now in its fifth edition.<ref>[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=1519976 Review] in ''International and Comparative Law Quarterly''. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121102053910/http://bybil.oxfordjournals.org/content/76/1/557.full.pdf+html Review] in ''British Year Book of International Law''. [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=340389 Review], in ''World Trade Review''.</ref>

His other books include ''Law of International Joint Ventures'',<ref>[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=1517964 Review] in ''International and Comparative Law Quarterly''.</ref> ''The Pursuit of Nationalized Property'',<ref>[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=1509696 Review] in ''International and Comparative Law Quarterly''</ref> ''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.<ref>[http://r0.unctad.org/disputesettlement/advisers.htm Board of advisors of the project on dispute settlement] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100705031948/http://r0.unctad.org/disputesettlement/advisers.htm |date=2010-07-05 }}, UNCTAD, retrieved 2011-01-31.</ref>

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