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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 has a broad practice covering general commercial
law, including insurance, and chancery. He specialises in public
international law, including international human rights, investment
protection disputes and the law of the sea, including maritime boundary
disputes.
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 the 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.
Reported cases and recent work
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Simon's background is in public international law. Since being
called to the Bar, he has been involved in a variety of international
disputes, including acting as secretary to two arbitral tribunals
in investment protection disputes. Simon was also instructed
as junior counsel for the Claimants in an investment protection
dispute before the International Centre for the Settlement of
Investment Disputes, brought under the Energy Charter Treaty
and a bilateral investment treaty.
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“Gómez Paquiyauri Brothers” v. Peru, Inter-Am.Ct.H.R.,
Series C, No. 110, (8 July 2004): torture and extra-judicial
killing by State agents; issues of reparation (joint submission
with Professor J. Crawford of amicus curiae brief on issues
of State responsibility).
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Simon provides advice and advocacy in a range of commercial
and chancery matters.
Publications
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“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)
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(with J. Crawford) "The Continuing Debate on a UN Convention
on State Responsibility", International and Comparative
Law Quarterly, vol. 54 (2005), p. 959.
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"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.
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(with J. Crawford), “Responsibility, State” in
Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity (Macmillan,
New York, 2004).
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(with J. Crawford), “The Nature and Forms of International
Responsibility”, in M.D. Evans (ed.), International Law
(Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003), p. 445 (2nd ed.,2006)
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(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.
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(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.
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(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
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(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 2006/2007).
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