Can Yeginsu

Practice Areas

Commercial litigation, civil fraud, international arbitration (commercial and investor-state), public and administrative law, civil liberties and human rights, public international law.

Frequently instructed as lead Counsel in the Commercial Court, Administrative Court, Chancery Division; acted in 50+ cases before the Court of Appeal, UK Supreme Court, European Court of Human Rights, and Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Experience of acting as co-counsel before the ECOWAS Court of Justice, Federal Court of Malaysia, Turkish Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court of The Gambia.

Counsel and international arbitrator, with extensive experience of arbitrations under the LCIA, ICC, GAFTA, LMAA, CIArb, ICSID, and UNCITRAL Rules.

Career

M.A. (Oxon); LL.B. (London); LL.M. Harvard Law School; Procter Fellow, Princeton University; called to the Bar in 2007 (Inner Temple, Princess Royal Scholar).

Adjunct Professor of Law, Columbia Law School (New York), Georgetown University Law Center (Washington D.C.), Visiting Professor, Koç University Law School (Istanbul). Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge.

Deputy Chair of the High Level Panel of Legal Experts on Media Freedom, the advisory arm of the Media Freedom Coalition of States (currently co-chaired by Germany, Finland).

Professional Memberships

COMBAR, ALBA, LCIA, ICC UK, ICCA, BIICL (Member of Investment Treaty Forum), ASIL (Executive Council Member), Member of IBA Arbitration Subcommittee on Investment Treaty Arbitration, ITF (Academic Council Member).

Publications

Investment Treaty Arbitration Review (2025), Jervis on Coroners (Sweet&Maxwell, 2024), The General International Law in International Investment Law: A Commentary (OUP, 2024), Jackson&Powell on Professional Liability (Sweet&Maxwell, 2017), The Protections for Religious Rights: Law and Practice (OUP, 2013).