Alain Pellet
36 rue Bernard Buffet (apt: B112/113)
Paris 75017 France
Independent Objector (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - ICANN) (2012 – 2014); Former member (1990-2011) and former Chairperson (1997-1998) of the International Law Commission of the United Nations; Professor, Institute of Political Studies, Paris (1980-1999); Faculty of Law and Political Science of the University of Paris-Nord (1974 - 1990) (seconded to the University of Constantine until 15 September 1977).
Member, Institut de Droit international; President of the French Society for International Law; Member, ILA, ASIL.
Member, ICSID Panel of Arbitrators, designated by the Chairman of the Administrative Council of the World Bank, Alternate Arbitrator, Arbitration and Conciliation Court of the OSCE (2001- 2013).
Various international or transnational arbitrations as counsel and arbitrator (including ICSID, UNCITRAL, PCA, FED). Appointed arbitrator, Consultant and Expert witness on jurisdictional issues, law of treaties.
• Appointed arbitrator by Bulgaria in the case Energo-Pro a.s. v. Republic of Bulgaria (ICSID Case No. ARB/15/9) (2015 - present);
• Appointed arbitrator by Cameroon in the case Capital Financial Holdings Luxembourg S.A. v. the Republic of Cameroon (ICSID Case No. ARB/15/18) (2015 - present);
• President in the case RREEF Infrastructure (G.P.) Limited and RREEF Pan-European Infrastructure Two Lux S.à.r.l. v. Kingdom of Spain (ICSID Case No. ARB/13/30) (2014 - present);
• Appointed arbitrator by Madagascar in the case of Courts (Indian Ocean) Limited and Courts Madagascar S.A.R.L. v. Republic of Madagascar (ICSID Case No. ARB/13/34) (2014 - 2016).
The Law of International Responsibility (ed. with James Crawford & Simon Olleson), OUP, 2010, 1296 p.; “Police Powers or the State’s Right to Regulate” in Building International Investment Law. The First 50 Years of ICSID, Wolters Kluwer, 2015, pp. 447-462; “Notes sur la 'fragmentation' du droit international: Droit des investissements internationaux et droits de l'homme”, in Unity and Diversity in International Law. Essays in Honour of Professor Pierre-Marie Dupuy, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2014, pp. 757-784; “The Case law of the ICJ in Investment Arbitration”, ICSID Review, vol. 28, No. 2, 2013, pp. 223-240; “Annulment faute de mieux. Is There a Need for an Appeals Facility”, in Investment Treaty Law: Current Issues IV, London, The British Institute of International and Comparative Law, to be published. “Human Rights in a Fragmenting International Law”, Harvard Human Rights Symposium, Harvard Law School, 6 April 2012; “Adieu Philippines – Remarques sur la distinction entre les réclamations conventionnelles et contractuelles dans le droit de l’investissement international” in Le droit international économique à l’aube du XXIème siècles - Mélanges offerts à Dominique Carreau et Patrick Juillard, Pedone, Paris, 2009, pp. 97-110. Many books and articles in English, French or Spanish, including Droit international public, LGDJ Paris, 8th ed. 2009, 1709 p. (with P. Daillier and M. Forteau).