Peter C. Hansen

Bar / Professional Activity

• D.C. Bar, International Investment & Finance Committee (Chair 2011-2012, Vice Chair 2009-2011), 2012
• ABA International Law & Practice Section, Deputy to General Division Chair, 2002

Verdicts / Settlements (Case Results)

• CT, World Bank Administrative Tribunal Judgment No. 512 [2015] - reinstatement of staff member who had been terminated on disciplinary grounds, 2015
• Mr. "RR", IMF Administrative Tribunal Judgment No. 2021-2, awarding three (3) years' salary and over $95K in attorney's fees for wrongful non-conversion and an intentionally derailed application process for another position., 2021
• DO, World Bank Administrative Tribunal Judgment No. 546 [2016] - first proven case of racial discrimination (Tribunal established 1981), 2016
• Park v. Brahmbhatt (D.C. Superior Court) - successful defense in case involving claims of sexual harassment and assault, won for client a $150,000 costs award after 10 day jury trial given plaintiff's manifold abuses of process over three years of litigation, 2018
• Mr. "LL", IMF Administrative Tribunal Judgment No. 2019-1, ca. $1.5 million payout, tripling of benefits - largest individual award in history of international civil service law, 2019

Pro bono / Community Service

• Practice Moot Judge, American University Jessup Moot Court Team (2001-2004), 2004
• Judge, Jessup Moot Court Competition (International Rounds 2001-2004, 2006-2012), 2012
• Chair, Board of Directors, Cambridge Society of Washington, D.C. (2017-present), previously (2010-2012), Director (2012-2017), President (2008-2010), 2022
• U.S. Congressional briefing (House of Representatives), as well as briefings of State Department, U.S. Export-Import Bank, 2013

Educational Background

• MA - International Economic Policy, American University School of International Service, 1997
• BA - International Studies, French/Western European Area Studies; Minor in Economics; Asian Studies Certificate, American University School of International Studies, 1993
• LLM - Cambridge University, Hughes Hall (matriculated 2004), 2005

Scholarly Lectures / Writings

• The jurisprudence of the World Bank Administrative Tribunal has grown and evolved dramatically overits first quarter-century. Mr. Hansen’s study comprehensively surveys the numerous doctrinal contributions provided by external sources during this time. Organized under rubrics suggested by Article 38 ofthe Statute of the International Court of Justice, which sets out that Court’s sources of law, Mr. Hansen’sstudy reviews: (i) the roles of the contract of employment, Bank rules, international treaties and nationallaws in the composition of the pactum established between a staff member and the Bank; (ii) the development of binding custom from the practices of the Bank, other institutions and national governments;(iii) the Tribunal’s use of general legal principles drawn from other legal systems; and (iv) the Tribunal’suse of international and domestic tribunal precedents. Extensively footnoted, Mr. Hansen’s study isintended for both academics and practitioners specializing in international administrative law anddispute settlement., Author, The World Bank Administrative Tribunal’s External Sources of Law: A Retrospective of the Tribunal’s First Quarter-Century (1981–2005), Martinus Nijhoff (Publisher) - The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 6 (2007) 1–87, World Bank, International Civil Service, 2007
• Compares U.S. official treatment of Bangladesh and Nigeria to show negatively differential treatment of Africa in investment matters, and calls for a more balanced approach to encourage African development, Author, Avoiding Harmful Overreach When Promoting Human Rights in African Investments, University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, vol. 35, no. 4 (Summer 2014), Africa, 2014
• The World Bank Administrative Tribunal has begun its second quarter-century with a jurisprudential flowering of extraordinary proportions. Mr. Hansen’s study, which builds on his earlier25-year retrospective, comprehensively surveys the Tribunal’s numerous doctrinal developments during this time. In this article, which is part two of two, Mr. Hansen revisits two of thefour subjects explored in his retrospective: (i) the role of general legal principles as a source ofTribunal law, particularly with respect to the Tribunal’s recent and extensive due process jurisprudence; and (ii) the role of external case law as a source of Tribunal law, including decisionsfrom international courts, international administrative tribunals, international arbitral tribunalsand national courts. Extensively footnoted, Mr. Hansen’s study is intended for both academicsand practitioners specializing in international administrative law and comparative internationaljurisprudence., Author, The World Bank Administrative Tribunal’s External Sources of Law: The Next Chapter (2006–2010) (Part II), Martinus Nijhoff (Publisher) - The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 11 (2012) 449-497, World Bank, International Civil Service, 2012
• The World Bank Administrative Tribunal has begun its second quarter-century with a jurisprudential flowering of extraordinary proportions. Mr. Hansen’s study, which builds on his earlier25-year retrospective, comprehensively surveys the Tribunal’s numerous doctrinal developmentsduring this time. In this article, which is part one of two, Mr. Hansen revisits two of the four subjects explored in his retrospective: (i) the roles of the contract of employment, Bank rules, international treaties and national laws in the composition of the pactum established between a stafffmember and the Bank; and (ii) the development of binding custom from the practices of theBank, other institutions and national governments. The third and fourth subjects, which dealwith the Tribunal’s use of general legal principles and precedents drawn from international anddomestic tribunals, shall be handled in the forthcoming second part of this study. Extensivelyfootnoted, Mr. Hansen’s study is intended for both academics and practitioners specializing ininternational administrative law and comparative international jurisprudence., Author, The World Bank Administrative Tribunal’s External Sources of Law: The Next Chapter (2006–2010) (Part I), Martinus Nijhoff (Publisher) - The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 11 (2012) 199-251, World Bank, International Civil Service, 2012

• Africa
• International Monetary Fund
• Other International Organizations
• World Bank