Vaughan Lowe
Alan Vaughan Lowe QC is a barrister and academic specialising in the field of international law. Chichele Professor of Public International Law in the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1999-2012; Emeritus Professor of International Law and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, since 2012. He was called to the Bar of England and Wales at Gray's Inn, of which he is a Bencher, in 1993 and appointed Queen's Counsel on 28 March 2008. He practices from Essex Court Chambers, London. He is an associate member of l'Institut de droit international.Cases
Judicial and Arbitral appointments include:-
- Ad hoc Judge, Kononov v. Latvia, European Court of Human Rights, 2009 –
- Arbitrator, Chevron v. Republic of Ecuador, 2009 -
- Arbitrator, EVN v. Republic of Macedonia, 2009 - arbitrator, appointed by Macedonia)
- Arbitrator, Mercuria Energy Group Ltd v. The Republic of Poland, 2009-
- President, Hochtief v. Argentina, ICSID tribunal, 2009 - )
- President, Investment arbitration against a European State, 2008 -
- President, Foresti & others v. Republic of South Africa, ICSID tribunal, 2007-
- President, Barmek v. Azerbaijan, ICSID tribunal, 2007- 2009
- Arbitrator, Kardassopoulos v. Georgia, Fuchs v. Georgia, ICSID tribunal, 2007- 2010
- Arbitrator, Sancheti v, UK, 2007
- President, Sistem v. Kyrgyz Republic, ICSID tribunal, 2006- 2009
- President, Bayview v. Mexico, ICSID tribunal, 2006-2007
- Arbitrator, Barbados v. Trinidad & Tobago maritime delimitation arbitral tribunal 2004-2006
- Judge, European Nuclear Energy Tribunal 2006-
Reported cases as counsel include:-
- Apostolides v Orams & Ors EWCA Civ 9
- Demopoulos v. Turkey and 7 other cases, Grand Chamber ECHR, 2009
- Advisory Opinion on the Unilateral Declaration of Independence by the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government of Kosovo, International Court of Justice, 2009
- R v Secretary Of State For Transport EWHC 1918
- Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea,, ICJ 2009
- Request for Interpretation of the Judgment of 31 March 2004 in the Case concerning Avena and Other Mexican Nationals, ICJ 2008
- R v. Director of the Serious Fraud Office, UKHL 60
- Varnava and Others v. Turkey, Grand Chamber ECHR, 2008
- R v. Secretary of State for Defence UKHL 58
- Republic of Ecuador v. Occidental Exploration & Production Co EWCA Civ 656
- The Tomimaru ITLOS, 2007
- The Hoshinmaru ITLOS, 2007
- R v. Jones UKHL 16
- R v. Jones EWCA Crim 1981
- Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, ICJ, 2004
- Land Reclamation by Singapore, ITLOS, 2003,
- Case concerning the MOX plant, UNCLOS arbitration, 2003
- Azinas v. Cyprus, Grand Chamber ECHR, 2003
- Lauder v. Czech Republic, CME v. Czech Republic, ad hoc arbitral tribunals, 2001,
- Case concerning the MOX plant, ITLOS, 2001
- Southern Bluefin Tuna case, ad hoc arbitral tribunal, 2000
- Case concerning Passage Through the Great Belt, ICJ, 1991 92
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