Sam Wordsworth specialises in public international law and international arbitration. He is regularly instructed by Governments in state/state cases and appears frequently before international tribunals including the International Court of Justice and Tribunals constituted with respect to the Law of the Sea.
He is a Visiting Professor teaching investment arbitration at Kings College, London and is regularly instructed as counsel in investment treaty disputes (he also sits as arbitrator in a limited number of disputes). He is a co-author of Halsbury’s Vol. 61 “International Law and Foreign Relations”, the forthcoming Oppenheim’s International Law 10th ed and Mustill & Boyd, International Commercial and Investment Arbitration, 3rd ed (author of the chapters on investment treaty arbitration).