Garth  Schofield

Garth  Schofield

GARTH SCHOFIELD is Deputy Secretary-General and Principal Legal Counsel at the
Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, an intergovernmental organization which
administers arbitrations and other dispute resolution proceedings involving various
combinations of States, State entities, intergovernmental organizations, and private parties.
Over more than 15 years at the PCA, he has worked closely with arbitral tribunals in some of
the largest and most complex inter-State, investor-State, and contractual cases administered by
the PCA spanning the full breadth of public and private international law as well as the full
range of industry sectors. In particular, he worked closely with the tribunals constituted in the
Indus Waters Kishenganga Arbitration, Bay of Bengal Maritime Boundary Arbitration, Chagos
Marine Protected Area Arbitration, ARA Libertad Arbitration, South China Sea Arbitration,
Railway Land Arbitration, Duzgit Integrity Arbitration, and Indus Waters Western Rivers
Arbitration. He served as Registrar to the conciliation commission in the Timor Sea
Conciliation and as Registrar to both arbitral tribunals constituted under the Timor Sea Treaty.
Along with other actors in the conciliation, he was awarded the Order of Timor-Leste for the
role of those proceedings in rebuilding the relationship between Timor-Leste and Australia.
In addition to overseeing the institution’s support to arbitral tribunals, he assists the PCA
Secretary-General in carrying out his functions under the Arbitration Rules of the United
Nations Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), as well asthe diplomatic work
of the PCA with its member States and other intergovernmental organizations.
A member of the New York State Bar he regularly speaks and publishes on public international
law, the history of international law and organization, and international dispute resolution and
has lectured at various universities worldwide