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Year of Call: 2002
Education: B.A. (Hons) (Cantab) (2000); LL.M. (NYU);
Dip. Int. Law. (Cantab)
Languages: French (fluent); Italian (fluent); German
(basic)
Email: simonolleson@13oldsquare.com
Areas of practice
Simon specializes in public international law; his practice includes advice and advocacy in relation to traditional inter-State disputes, including before the International Court of Justice, investment protection disputes, international human rights law, issues of sovereign immunity, State succession and the law of the sea, including maritime boundary disputes.
Simon is recommended by Chambers and Partners UK 2009, as a Leading Junior (Band 3) in public international law, where he is described as “extremely intelligent, astute and very practical,” and as a “fine up-and-comer.” He was previously recommended in public international law by Chambers and Partners UK 2008 and Chambers and Partners Global 2008 as “up-and-coming”.
He has appeared before the International Court of Justice, as well as before arbitral tribunals operating under the auspices of the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes. He has also acted as secretary or clerk to the tribunal in a number of international investment protection disputes, as well as acting as clerk to the tribunal in a multi-million dollar commercial arbitration.
In addition, Simon also has a broad domestic practice, advising and providing advocacy in general chancery and commercial law. He has appeared regularly in the County Courts, as well as in the High Court.
Prior to coming to the Bar, Simon was a Research Associate and subsequently Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law of the University of Cambridge, with which he still retains links. He acted as assistant to Professor James Crawford, Special Rapporteur on State Responsibility, in the summer of 2001 during the International Law Commission’s final consideration and adoption of the Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts and accompanying commentaries. Previously, he also acted for a time as an external legal adviser to the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United Nations, New York.
Simon was a Visiting Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law from February to August 2007, during which time he undertook a research project, partially funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, investigating reliance on the International Law Commission’s Articles on State Responsibility by international and domestic courts and tribunals. He has also provided commentary for television on questions of international law.
Reported cases and recent work
- Junior Counsel and Advocate for Romania in the oral hearings before the International Court of Justice in Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea (Romania v. Ukraine) (judgment pending);
- Counsel for the Claimant in Barmek Holding v. Republic of Azerbaijan (ICSID Case No. ARB/06/16), including an application for Provisional Measures;
- Advising (with leading counsel) a prominent multi-national company on the prospects of bringing a claim under a bilateral investment treaty;
- Advising a rebel group in relation to a peace settlement.
- Advising (both alone and with leading counsel) on a number of other matters under bilateral investment treaties and under NAFTA;
- Advising a telecommunications company on matters relating to the International Telecommunications Union;
- Acting as clerk to the tribunal in a multi-million dollar commercial arbitration relating to a failed tourism infrastructure project;
- Junior Counsel for the Claimant in Alstom Power Italia S.P.A and Alstom S.P.A. v. Republic of Mongolia (ICSID Case No. ARB/04/10);
- Joint submission (with Professor J. Crawford) of amicus curiae brief to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on issues of State responsibilityin “Gómez Paquiyauri Brothers” v. Peru, Inter-Am.Ct.H.R., Series C, No. 110, (judgment of 8 July 2004): torture and extra-judicial killing by State agents; issues of reparation.
Publications
- “The Kadi and Yusuf Cases before the Court of First Instance – Jus Cogens and Review of Security Council Resolutions” INTERIGHTS Bulletin, vol. 15, p. 135 (2006)
- (with J. Crawford) "The Continuing Debate on a UN Convention on State Responsibility", International and Comparative Law Quarterly, vol. 54 (2005), p. 959.
- "Killing Three Birds With One Stone"? The Judgments of the International Court of Justice in the Legality of Use of Force Cases", Leiden Journal of International Law, vol. 18 (2005), p. 237.
- (with J. Crawford), “Responsibility, State” in Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity (Macmillan, New York, 2004).
- (with J. Crawford), “The Nature and Forms of International Responsibility”, in M.D. Evans (ed.), International Law (2nd ed.)(Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006), p. 451 (1st ed., 2006)
- (with J. Crawford and J. Peel) “The ILC’s Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts: Completion of the Second Reading”, European Journal of International Law, vol. 12, (2001), p. 963.
- (with J. Crawford) “The Exception of Non-performance: Links between the Law of Treaties and the Law of State Responsibility”, Australian Yearbook of International Law, vol. 21 (2001), p. 55.
- (with C.D. Gray), “The Limits of the Law on the Use of Force: Turkey, Iraq and the Kurds”, Finnish Yearbook of International Law, vol. XII (2001), p. 387.
Forthcoming Publications
- (with S. Borelli) “Countermeasures: Obligations Relating to Human Rights and Humanitarian Law” / “Contre-mesures: Obligations relatives aux droits de l’homme et au droit humanitaire” in J. Crawford and A. Pellet (eds.) LCIL/Paris X – Nanterre Handbook on International Responsibility/ Manuel de la responsabilité internationale (Oxford University Press/Pedone, Oxford/Paris, forthcoming 2009).
- The Impact of the ILC’s Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (monograph, forthcoming, 2009).
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