Research Interests

Trade (Law and Policy), International Law and Statehood, International Trade Law, Dispute Resolution (Mediation, Arbitration, ISDS), Energy Law and Ethic Renewable Energy, Islamic Law, Middle East Studies, Dispute Resolution in the Middle East, Political Economy, Geopolitics, Global Investment Law and Policy, and Belt and Road Initiative.

Publications

Books

• ‘The Scotia Group Report’, published by Institution Quraysh for Law and Policy, 2021
• The Research Handbook on Energy Law and Ethics’ (Edward Elgar Publishing forthcoming 2022.) Co-editor with Rosa Lastra
• ‘The Hijaz: The First Islamic State’ Hurst Publishing, jointly with Oxford University Press, 2018
• ‘The Application of the Objectives of Islamic Law on Public Policy’ Al-Azhar, Samo Press, Beirut 2017
• ‘Manliness. A Translation and Commentary on Hamza Shihata’s lecture: Ar-Rujulah Imad Al-Khuluq Al-Fadel’ (Manliness: The Pillar of Virtuous Ethic) Haus Publishing 2016.

Articles

• Malik Dahlan. “The Hijaz and International Law” Oxford Bibliographies in International Law. Ed. EIC Name. New York: Oxford University Press, 21 APRIL 2021. Available here
• “A Modern Marshall Plan for the Middle East”, Cambridge Middle East and North Africa Forum Project Report November 2020
• ‘Book review of The House of Sciences: The First Modern University in the Muslim World (Darülfünun) by Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu’, hardcover, published: 18 July 2019 by Oxford University Press, 312 Pages, ISBN: 9780190051556
• ‘Envisioning Foundations for the Law of the Belt and Road Initiative: Rule of Law and Dispute Resolution Challenges’ Harvard International Law Journal Essay – Volume 62/2020
• ‘Encyclopaedia of Islam III – The Hijaz Brill (Forthcoming)
• ‘Dispute Regulation in the Institutional Development of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: Establishing the Normative Legal Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative’, Brill | Nijhoff, AIIB Yearbook of International Law, Volume: 2, 121-144, 2019
• ‘On finding the ethical in the age of digital battle spaces’ NATO Defense Strategic Communications, Volume 6, 245-57, Spring 2019
• ‘Dispute Resolution and the Institutional Development of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: The Normative Legal Implications of the Belt and Road Initiative’, Asia Business Law Journal.
• ‘The Hijaz in Perspective: Islamic Statehood and The Origins of Arab Self-Determination (1916-2016)’ Hurst Publishing, Centre for Global Constitutionalism, University of St Andrews, Working Paper No. 3, January 2018
• Dimensions of the New Belt Road Order: An Analysis of the Emerging Legal Norms and a Conceptionalisation of the Regulation of Disputes, Beijing Law Review, 2018
• ‘Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Reconceptionalized: Regulation of Disputes, Standards, and Mediation.’ Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal, Volume: 18, Issue: 3, 467-496, 2018
• ‘The Hijaz in Perspective: Islamic Statehood and The Origins of Arab Self-Determination (1916-2016)’ Centre for Global Constitutionalism, University of St Andrew’s (Working Paper No. 3, January 2018).
• ‘Rethinking Regional Organization in the Gulf and Middle East’ Chapter in Gulf Politics in Economics in a Changing World, Singapore volume edited by M Hudson, World Scientific Printers (2014).
• ‘Introspective Reflections on the Islamic Financial Industry After the Downturn: Ethics and the Rule of Law’ Law and Financial Markets Review (Vol. 6, No 2, Mar 2012).

Supervision

In the past he has supervised PhD students on the following specific topics:

• International Trade & Innovation:
• China’s Belt & Road Initiative (BRI) or ‘One Belt One Road’
• Trade Fragmentation 
• Brexit Policy; Brexit: negotiations & policy implications
• Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs)
• Regionalism 
• Soft Law / Sharp Law
• Regulation of Digital Spaces
• Trade Policy: BITs, FTAs, FDI among others
• Artificial Intelligence and Disruptive Innovation.

In Dispute Resolution:

• Mediation and Negotiation
• Mixed-Mode Dispute Resolution
• Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS).

In Energy Law:

• Law and Ethics
• Energy Transition
• Energy Law
• Renewable Energy Law
• Climate Change.

In International Law and Public Policy

• Regulation and Public Policy
• Statehood 
• International Organization
• Islamic Law, Middle East Studies, Political Economy, Geopolitics.

Public Engagement

Current Roles

• Board of Advisors of RAND Europe, Cambridge, UK.
• Dean’s Advisory Board of the Pardee School for Global Affairs, Boston University, Boston.
• Editorial Board of Defence Strategic Communications, NATO StratCom COE, Riga, Latvia.
• Advisory Board of the St Andrews Institute for Legal and Constitutional Research (ILCR), Scotland.
• Advisory Council of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London.
• Timbuktu Renaissance Presidential Action Group, Mali.
• International Advisory Board at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, US (MGH)
• Partners HealthCare Corporation Member, MGH
• President’s Council Member at MGH.
• Board of Trustees of Coexist House, London.

Historic

• Served on the Board of Trustees of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL), London.
• Served on the Board of the Energy & Natural Resources Law Institute (ELI), UK.
• Served on the Board of the International Mediation Institute (IMI) in The Hague, Netherlands.
• Served on the Board of Trustees for the Arab British Centre, London.
• Served on the Board of Directors of the Qatar Medical Corporation (Hamad), Qatar.
• Served on the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of the Middle East, Davos.
• Founding President of Harvard Law School Association of Arabia, Middle East & North Africa.
• Served as Secretary of Harvard Law School Association of the United Kingdom.
• Served as International Chair, Harvard Law School Association.
• Served on the Editorial Board of the UCLA Journal of Middle East Development.
• Served on the Advisory Board of the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law’s (CIMEL’s) Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law.
• Served on the Advisory Board of the University of Toronto-Yale Middle East Law and Governance Interdisciplinary Journal (MELG).

Conferences / Conference papers

• The Scotia Group Majlis’ and Forum, January – November 2021
• Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research, “The ‘Breathing Space’ Project – Rule of Law’s Past and Future, Virtual Conference, 22 September 2020
• China Arbitration Summit 2020, “Work Together, Win Together – Global Innovation and Development of Dispute Resolution in Face of COVID-19”, Virtual Conference, 22 September 2020
• British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) ‘Collaborative Resolution of Disputes and COVID-19’, Webinar, 26 June 2020
• IMI/SIMI ‘Investor State Mediation: An Expert Round Table’, 17 July 2020
• Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Mediation Colloquium, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, Boston, 4th December 2019
• The IISS Manama Dialogue, 15th Regional Security Summit. Manama, Bahrain, 22-24 November 2019
• Lecture on legal and political issues related to the Belt and Road Initiative to senior management at Department for International Trade Legal Advisers. 11 November 2019
• Jerusalem First: Mediated the Westphalia Simulation for for Peace in the Middle East conference, University of Cambridge UK 8 November 2019
• Presentation at the annual Summit for the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), Beijing; and participated in the Belt & Road Arbitration Summit ahead of the ‘Beijing Joint Declarations for BRI Arbitration Institutions’. 6-7 November 2019
• Lecture at ECULP in Shanghai to masters and PhD student and academic staff. 4 November 2019
• Harvard University ‘Negotiating Peace in Global Complexity: Chaos, Conflict, and Cooperation in Central Asia and the Middle East’. 21 September 2019
• Panellist, co-host and presenter at the Philip Lader Renaissance Weekend in Jackson Hole Labour Day 29 August- 3 September 2019
• Chaired and lead panel discussion for trial with academic students and researchers at St Andrews University. This included an expert panel discussing modern legal issues arising from trial. 3 May 2019
• Hosted and co-convened with BIICL the Belt and Road Initiative and Global Dispute Resolution Forum for the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) 2 May 2019
• CCLS Debate: Future in Energy Law. 21 March 2019
• International Law Summit: Energy Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in the Middle East and Africa, London 7 March 2019
• BCLP and BIICL Conference. 5 March 2019
• Talk at Cambridge University on the recently published book ‘The Hijaz’. 25 February 2019
• Evolution not Revolution: CIArb’s work on ISDS reform at UNCITRAL WG III 13 February 2019
• Forbes Global CEO Conference, Bangkok, 30-31 October 2018
• CIETAC (China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission), Beijing 19 October 2018
• Singapore International Arbitration Center (SIAC). 19 October 2018
• Chinese Academy for Social Sciences, International Seminar on the Belt & Road initiative and Energy Connectivity, Beijing 15-19 October 2018
• ECT Research Centre and CEC (China Electricity Council), Beijing 26 September 2018
• Speaker at the AIIB Conference – International Organisations and the Promotion of Effective Dispute Resolution, Beijing 5-6 September 2018
• National University of Singapore, Singapore 5-6 July 2018
• GIGA-Pin Conference – New Diplomacy for new types of Conflicts.  From Regional Conflicts to Regional Negotiations:  Rethinking Peace Processes. Hamburg, Germany 2-3 July 2018
• Speaker at the Aspen Ideas, Festival, 24-27 June 2018
• Book Launch for ‘The Hijaz’, book launch which was attended by the University Vice Chancellor, Oxford. 7 June 2018
• Oxford Union Debate, 7 June 2018
• Beirut Institute Summit Edition II, 12-13 May 2018
• Conference/workshop: Saudi Arabia and Iran – Beyond Conflict and Co-Existence, London School of Economics, 8 May 2018
• LCILP 3rd Annual Energy Arbitration and Dispute Resolution in the Middle East and Africa Conference, ‘Saudi Aramco – What does flotation mean for the sector’, London, 6-7 March 2018.
• China-Middle East Relations: The Belt & Road. Center for Middle East Policy Development at UCLA. 24 February 2018
• ‘Islamic Statehood and the Origins of Arab Self-Determination (1916-2016)’, a talk by Professor Malik R. Dahlan (Quraysh), Old Class Library, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, 30 November 2017.
• Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week: World Future Energy Summit 15-18 January 2017
• Speaker at the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore NUS conference on- Saudi Arabia after the Arab Uprisings: Domestic, Regional and International Challenges, 12-13 December 2016
• 16th Annual Forbes Global CEO Conference: Rising to the Challenge, 29 November -1 December 2016
• 163rd Bergedorf Round Table: A Westphalia for the Middle East Korber Foundation, 11-13 November 2016
• Interviewed for ILCR University of St Andrew’s project on The Law’s Two Bodies, 7 November 2016
• International Task Force Summit for Mixed Mode Dispute Resolution, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University 23 and 24 September 2016 
• Opening address, PIMIC-ITN Forum. Inquiry into the Consequences of PIMIC in the Contemporary World, 24-25 June 2016
• Speaker on the Implications of Recent Events in Iran and the Middle East at Dentons’ Global Energy Summit 17 May 2016.

Selected copies of articles are available to read here.