Biography of
DR.KAMAL HOSSAIN
Barrister, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh
Dr. Kamal Hossain, was born on 20 April, 1937. He did his BA (Economics) from University of Notre Dame, Indiana (1955), BA (Honours in Jurisprudence) (1957), Bachelor of Civil Law (1958) and Doctor of Philosophy (International Law) (1964) all from University of Oxford. He was enrolled as a Barrister from Lincoln’s Inn in 1959 and as an Advocate in the High Court at Dhaka in the same year. He is a Senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh.
Dr. Kamal Hossain taught Constitutional Law and International Law at Queens College, Oxford (1957-9). He was a Research Student (1958-9, 1964) and Research Fellow (1977-9) of Nuffield College, Oxford and a Visiting Fellow (1976-7) of All Souls College, Oxford. He taught International Law and Constitutional law in the University of Dhaka (1962-7). He was a Visiting Professor at the Free University of Amsterdam (1997).
He was Minister of Law (1972-3), Minister of Petroleum and Minerals (1973-5) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1973-5) for the Government of Bangladesh. He was a member of the UN
Compensation Commission for two terms (1994-6 and 1999-2005) and was Chairman of two of its Panels. He was also the UN Special Reporter on the Human Rights Situation in Afghanistan from 1999-2003. He is a member, Panel of Arbitrators, ICSID and served as Chair and Member of a number of international arbitral tribunals (ICC, ICSID and UNCITRAL). He was appointed as a Judge ad hoc by Malaysia for the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea in the case Malaysia v Singapore (2003) and also as a Member of International Law of the Sea Annex VII Tribunal in the same case, and also in the case of Guyana v Suriname (2005-2007).
Dr Kamal is currently Vice Chairman of the International Law Association (London), Chairman of both the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) and South Asian Institute of Advanced Legal and Human Rights Studies (SAILS), Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Mineral and Petroleum Law, University of Dundee and Advisory Council Member for Transparency International.
Publications:
– Law and Policy in Petroleum Development (London and New York, 1979);
– Legal aspects of the New International Economic Order (New York: Nichols, 1980), and;
– Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources in International Law (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1984), co-edited with Subrata Roy Chowdhury.
Contributions:
– “Choice of Petroleum Development Regime in Joint Development of Offshore Oil and Gas” in Joint Development of Offshore Oil and Gas, Vol. II, edited by Hazel Fox (London, 1990);
– “Evolving Principles of Sustainable Development and Good Governance” in Sustainable Development and Good Governance, edited by Konrad Ginther et al (London, Leiden, 1995);
– “Regional and Multicultural Investment Agreements: Development Dimensions” in Liber Amicorum for Guntehr Jaenicke (Berlin / New York, 1998);
– “Globalization and Human Rights: Clash of Universal Aspirations and Special Interests” in The Future of International Human Rights, edited by Burns H. Weston et al (New York, 1999), and;
– Preface, “Are Stabilization Clause a Threat to Sustainable Development” ? pp330-1 in Sustainable Development in World Investment Law, ed. Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger et al (Wolters Kluwer, 2011).
Journal Article:
– “State Succession, the Commonwealth and International Law”, British Yearbook of International Law (1961), and;
– “The Dispute that Never Was”, Kamal Hossain (with Jeremy Carver), ICSID Review of Foreign Investment Law Journal, 1990, Vol 5, Issue 2, p31
Journal Article:
– “State Succession, the Commonwealth and International Law”, British Yearbook of International Law (1961), and;
– “The Dispute that Never Was”, Kamal Hossain (with Jeremy Carver), ICSID Review of Foreign Investment Law Journal, 1990, Vol 5, Issue 2, p31
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