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Emma is an associate in King & Spalding's New York office and a member of the International Arbitration practice group. Her global practice focuses on high-stakes international investment and commercial arbitration and award enforcement, with a particular emphasis on disputes arising in Europe and elsewhere under the Energy Charter Treaty.
Emma graduated from NYU Law in 2020 and from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in 2016. She has lived and worked previously in France, the People's Republic of China, and the Netherlands and she is bilingual in English and French. Emma also maintains a moderate level of fluency in written and spoken Mandarin Chinese and Italian.
At NYU Law, Emma was Commentary Editor of the NYU Journal of International Law & Politics and a fellow at the US-Asia Law Institute. She also participated in the 2018 FDI Moot and the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in 2020, where she was a quarterfinalist. Prior to joining King & Spalding, Emma worked as a legal intern both at P.R.I.M.E. Finance Foundation in The Hague and at the Permanent Mission of Antigua & Barbuda to the United Nations, where she focused respectively on arbitration involving complex financial transactions and international environmental law and human rights.
Publications & Presentations:
Euroscepticism: A Driver of the EU’s Clash with ISDS and Public International Law?, EFILA Blog, 7 Jan. 2023
Report on the 7th Annual EFILA Conference 2022 on Whether the EU is Still an Attractive FDI Destination Post-Achmea and Komstroy, 7 Eur. Invest. L & Arb. Rev. 188 (2022)
Brass City Local, CACP v. City of Waterbury, No. CV 21-6063548, 2022 WL 6405236 (Conn. Super Ct. Aug. 15, 2022), A contribution by the ITA Board of Reporters, Kluwer Law International
William Attix v. Carrington Mortgage Services LLC, United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, No. 20-13575, 26 May 2022, A contribution by the ITA Board of Reporters, Kluwer Law International
Young EFILA Submission to the OECD Consultation on Investment Treaties & Climate Change, 25 March 2022 (co-authored with Agata Daszko, Isabel San Martin, Ozge Varis, and Guofang Xue)
Dr. Joseph Ciccio et al. v. SmileDirectClub LLC, United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, No. 20-5833, 25 June 2021, A contribution by the ITA Board of Reporters, Kluwer Law International
Darrelle Revis, et al. v. Neil Schwartz, et al., Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, 2017-07940, 30 December 2020, A contribution by the ITA Board of Reporters, Kluwer Law International
Cultivating Civilization: The Confucian Principles Behind the Chinese Communist Party’s Mass Imprisonment of Ethnic Minorities in Xinjiang and What Human Rights Advocates Can Do to Stop It, 53 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 189 (2020).
Institute for International Law and Justice & Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, 17th Annual International Law and Human Rights Emerging Scholarship Conference, "Cultivating Civilization: The Confucian Principles Behind the CCP's Mass Imprisonment of Uighurs and What Human Rights Advocates Can Do to Stop It," April 2020
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