Rishi Gulati

Dr Rishi Gulati is an international lawyer practicing in public and private international law. He has a PhD from King’s College London; Advanced LLM in Public International Law from Leiden University and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the Australian National University. Rishi regularly appears before international and national courts, as well as arbitral tribunals in a broad range of international disputes. He frequently appears in mediations as well. Rishi has represented clients before the internal justice systems of several international organisations, including the UN, Asian Development Bank, African Development Bank, Africa Finance Corporation, EBRD, IMF, ICC, OPCW, etc. He has appeared in human rights cases before the UN Human Rights Committee and the Committee Against Torture. Rishi also has a broad advisory practice including on how international law obligations can be effectively implemented domestically. Rishi has previously taught at the London School of Economics, King’s College London, University of New South Wales, and Dublin City University, lecturing in international dispute resolution, public international law, private international law, international organisations law, international investment law, and international human rights law.

Selected cases and key advisory work

• Advised an international organisation on effectively implementing certain anti-terrorism UN Security Council Resolutions in an African state consistently with international law including on privacy and data protection
• Advised an international organisation on implementing effective mechanisms to secure international cooperation to combat international terrorism and other types of transnational crime in the context of cross-border sharing of electronic data
• Advised an international organisation on effectively implementing anti-terrorism UN Security Council Resolutions concerning Advanced Passenger Information regime in a Central Asian state
• Advised the Federation of International Civil Servants' Associations on the acquired rights of international civil servants
• Counsel in multiple international civil service cases settled following mediation
• Counsel in three UNCITRAL Arbitrations against an international organisation
• Counsel in a case involving a former staff member of a multilateral financial institution before the first  instance appellate mechanism (settled following jurisdictional phase)
• Advised a CGIAR organisation on its immunities regime and interpretation of aspects of its headquarters agreement
• Advised an NGO on aspects of the UN’s international responsibility in the context of the Haiti Cholera Litigation
• Counsel in a case seeking redress for victims of grave violations in the context of the conflict in Sierra Leone before multiple fora located in certain African states (led by Karim Khan QC)
• Counsel in CAT, Communication No. 701/2015. Decision adopted by the Committee Against Torture at its sixtieth session (18 April – 12 May 2017) dated 22 May 2017
• Represented an individual at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
• Counsel in Mr H v Asian Development Bank, Decision No. 108, Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal (6 January 2017)
• Counsel in National Australia Bank Ltd v Rose [2016] VSCA 169 (21 July 2016) (led by James Peters QC)
• Counsel inNational Builders Group IP Holdings v ACN 092 675 165 Pty Ltd (In Liq) & Anor[2015] VSCA 260 (17 September 2015) (led by Daniel Crennan QC)
• Counsel in a case concerning passport cancellation before the Security Division of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal
• Counsel in Woodson v Secre