Payam Akhavan
Payam Akhavan is an international lawyer and professor at McGill University in Montreal. He is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague and a designated arbitrator/conciliator at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) of the World Bank Group. In 2017, he delivered the CBC Massey Lectures “In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey”, which ran September 13-October 4 in five different Canadian cities. His companion book was the number one bestseller (non-fiction) in Canada.
Payam was born in Iran and moved in his childhood to Toronto. Payam earned his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) (1989) from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto and his Master of Law (LLM) (1990) and Doctor of the Science of Jurisprudence (SJD) (2001) from Harvard Law School.
Main Contributions
- Bestseller book in Canada, 2017
- Different international experiences
- International Court of Justice
- International Criminal Court
- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- Permanent Court of Arbitration
- International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
- Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission
- European Court of Human Rights
- Served as legal counsel before the Supreme Court of the United States
- Served as legal counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada
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