Timothy McKenzie (Tim)

Tim McKenzie is an associate in the Trial and Global Disputes Practice Group specializing in international arbitration and public international law. His experience includes investment, commercial, and inter-state arbitrations under the ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC and ICDR Rules, and cross-border litigations before U.S. courts.

Tim clerked at the International Court of Justice for the current and former Vice-Presidents of the Court and for Judge ad hoc Charles Brower. He is fluent in French and Spanish. 

Tim received his J.D. from New York University School of Law where he the 2016 winner of the International Human Rights Award, one of five NYU Law students selected as a Lloyd N. Cutler / Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow for 2016, a Senior Executive Editor of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, and a member of the 2015 U.S. national champion Philip C. Jessup international law moot court team. He has previously interned at the Hague Conference on Private International Law.

Tim received his B.A from the University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude, with distinction in International Relations and a minor in Geology.

He has co-authored the 2020 Philip C. Jessup moot court problem, and has frequently spoken on and published about matters relating to public international law and arbitration.

Publications

• “Ordre Public (Public Policy)”, Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights (Edward Elgar Publishing) (forthcoming, 2022)
• “Looking Without and Looking Within: Nestlé v. Doe and the Legacy of the Alien Tort Statute”, ASIL Insights, Volume 25, Issue 12, July 15, 2021 (with Kayla Winarsky Green)
• “Non-Signatory Enforcement of Arbitration Agreements under the New York Convention: the U.S. Supreme Court Weighs In,” EJIL:Talk!, July 9, 2020
• “Culturally Appropriate and Rights-Compatible: The Esprit de Corps of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights & the Hague Rules on Business and Human Rights Arbitration,” EJIL:Talk!, Feb. 4, 2020 (with Kayla Winarsky Green)
• “An Analysis of the Use of ICJ Jurisprudence in Investor-State Dispute Settlement,” EJIL:Talk!, May 13, 2019
• “SCOTUS Narrows Alien Tort Statute: Foreign Corporations Can’t Be Sued in U.S. Court for Alleged Human Rights Violations Under ATS,” Bloomberg Law Week, Vol. 86, No. 46, June 7, 2018 (with Viren Mascarenhas and Kayla Winarsky Green)