Julia, a senior associate in the firm’s London office, has significant experience in public international law, including acting for sovereign States before the International Court of Justice and other international courts and tribunals. She has also represented States and corporate clients in commercial and investment-treaty arbitrations in a range of sectors, including energy, technology, and financial services.
Prior to joining Three Crowns, Julia was a Judicial Fellow to Judge Joan E. Donoghue at the International Court of Justice. She also has previous experience at a Permanent Mission to the United Nations and in a Trial Chamber at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Julia holds a JD from Columbia Law School in New York where she was a James Kent and Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and received the David M. Berger Memorial Prize in International Law. At Columbia, Julia served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. She also has a first class honours degree in Political Science from McGill University in Montreal and a Master of Philosophy in Politics from the University of Cambridge.
Julia is admitted in New York and the District of Columbia and is a registered foreign lawyer in the UK. She speaks English and has a working knowledge of French and German.
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Languages
English
French
German
Acting for Elliott Associates, LP in a high-profile dispute under the Korea-United States Free Trade Agreement in which the Republic of Korea was found to have breached the minimum standard of treatment
Advising the UN Environment Programme before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in proceedings concerning the Request for an Advisory Opinion submitted by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law
Acting for a supermajor energy company in an UNCITRAL arbitration with a Middle Eastern State relating to various operational and handover claims following the expiry of a long-term petroleum sharing agreement
Acting for a supermajor energy company in a PCA arbitration against a Southeast Asian State arising out of a concession contract governed by international law
Acting for Boeing before the Supreme Court of the United States in a case concerning the availability of U.S. discovery under 28 U.S.C. § 1782 (Section 1782) for private, contract-based arbitrations
Acting for Chevron in a long-running UNCITRAL arbitration against the Republic of Ecuador
Acting for a leading technology company in an ICC arbitration regarding a long-term supply agreement
Acting for a supermajor energy company in a SIAC arbitration (seated in Brisbane) relating to a dispute under an agreement for the sale of interests in certain upstream assets
Acting for the Kingdom of Bahrain in disputes before the International Court of Justice, the International Civil Aviation Organization, and the Universal Postal Union
- J.D., Columbia Law School (James Kent Scholar, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar)
- MPhil (Politics), University of Cambridge
- B.A. (Hons), McGill University (First Class Honours)