Professor Campbell McLachlan

By John Magyar and Daniel Bates

Professor Campbell McLachlan, KC

Biography

• Born 15 April 1960, Christchurch, New Zealand

• Christchurch Boys' High School, 1973–77
  • Universities' Junior Scholarship 1977
• University of Canterbury, 1979–80
  • National Junior Mooting Cup 1980
• Victoria University of Wellington, 1981–84
  • LL B (Hons) 1st class 1984
  • Chapman Tripp Centenary Award for 1st in class
  • Universities' Senior Scholarship
  • Commonwealth Scholarship
  • Junior Lectureship 1983–84
• Commonwealth Secretariat Legal Division, Observer, Hague Conference on Private International Law, 1985
• Diploma cum laude, Hague Academy of International Law, 1985
• University College London, 1985–88
  • Ph D, State Recognition of Customary Law in the South Pacific, 1988

Professional Career

• Herbert Smith, 1988–2003
  • Assistant Solicitor, 1988–92
  • Partner, 1992–2003
  • Member, Partnership Council, 1998–2001
  • Solicitor Advocate (Higher Courts, Civil), 2001
  • Head, International Law Group, 2001–03

Academic Career

• Professor of Law, Victoria University of Wellington 2003–2024
  • Deputy Dean of Law, 2001–03
  • Queen's Counsel, 2007
  • Institut de Droit International Associé 2015; Membre, 2021
• Professor of Law (1973) in International Dispute Resolution, University of Cambridge 2024–
• Visiting Positions
  • Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, Cambridge, 2007
  • Visiting Fellow, All Souls' College, Oxford, 2011
  • Scholar in residence, NYU Center for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration & Commercial Law, 2014
  • Visiting Professor, Paris Arbitration Academy, 2016
  • Senior Research Fellow, KFG 'International rule of law: rise or decline?' Berlin 2019–20
  • Arthur Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science, University of Cambridge 2022–23; Visiting Fellow, Trinity Hall

Academic Positions

• President, Australian & New Zealand Society of International Law, 2006–09
• Rapporteur, ILA Committee International Civil and Commercial Litigation, 1992–2002
• Secretary, International Law Association
  • British Branch, 1997–2002
  • NZ Branch, 2003–08
• Co-Chair, ILA Study Group Practice & Procedure International Courts & Tribunals, 2002–10
• American Law Institute
  • Member, 2005–present
  • International Advisor Restatement 4th Foreign Relations Law, 2013–18, 2023–
• Hague Academy of International Law
  • Director of Studies, 1996
  • Special Course, 2008
  • Invited: General Course, 2024
• New Zealand Law Foundation International Research Fellowship, 2010
• Joint Editor-in-Chief ICSID Review–Foreign Investment Law Journal, 2012–present
• Institut de Droit International
  • Associé, 2015–2021
  • Membre, 2021–present
  • Rapporteur 18th Commission
• 'Equality of Parties before International Investment Tribunals', 2015–19 (Resolution adopted, The Hague, August 2019), Member 12th Commission 'Pandemics and International Law'

Professional Positions

• Chair, International Bar Association Committee on International Litigation, 2002–04
• Member, Permanent Court of Arbitration (on the nomination of New Zealand), 2021–present
• Member International Chamber of Commerce Court of Arbitration, 2004–09
• Member, Panel of Arbitrators International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes, 2007–present (on the nomination of New Zealand)
• Member, Panel of independent Chairs of Arbitral Tribunals under the UK-EU Cooperation Agreement on the joint proposal of the UK and the EU, 2022
• Associate Member, Essex Court Chambers (London), Bankside Chambers (Auckland, Singapore)