Experienced disputes lawyer with demonstrated expertise in public international law. Ten years of experience working for the United Nations in New York and the Middle East in international law and dispute resolution roles. Currently a visiting professor at McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, teaching public international law, law of international organizations, international labor law, statutory interpretation, and administrative law. Five years of experience as a labor & employment lawyer in the United States, including trial and appellate litigation, labor arbitration, negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and interest arbitration, internal investigations, industrial relations strategy, and employment law compliance. Former acting assistant professor at New York University School of Law. Current doctoral candidate at Yale Law School. 


Education

  • JSD, Yale Law School, expected spring 2026

  • LLM, Yale Law School, 2020

  • LLM, international law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2020

  • JD, University of Notre Dame Law School, 2006

  • BA, philosophy and classics, George Washington University, 2003

Admissions

  • California, United States

  • Illinois, United States

  • England & Wales (solicitor)

Experience

  • Visiting professor of law, McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, 2024-25

  • Acting assistant professor, New York University School of Law, 2023-24

  • Legal officer - international law, United Nations (UNRWA), 2022-23

  • Legal officer, United Nations (Secretariat), 2020-22

  • Legal officer, United Nations (UNRWA), 2015-19

  • Legal adviser, United Nations (UNDP), 2013-14

  • Associate attorney, Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt LLP, 2010-12

  • Associate attorney, Dowd Bloch & Bennett LLP, 2009-10

  • Associate attorney, Gilbert & Sackman, 2007-09

REcent Publications

Law journal articles & book chapters

Shorter works

Forthcoming

  • Wage Labour & Foreign Capital: Industrial Relations in International Investment Law

    Responsible business conduct in foreign investment encompasses compliance with internationally recognised standards in human rights, indigenous rights, environmental protection, and labour law. While the treatment of human rights, indigenous rights and environmental protection in investment law has generated considerable scholarship, the relationship between investment law and labour has not. This Article considers the interplay of international investment law and collective labour law: the law regulating the relationship between workers, employers, their representatives, and the state. It analyses investment cases in which investors allege that the host state violated its investment treaty obligations of fair and equitable treatment (FET) and full protection and security (FPS) through its intervention or non-intervention in strikes, worker demonstrations, boycotts, and other industrial action. It demonstrates that investment arbitrators largely decide FET and FPS claims involving collective labor law relations ex aequo et bono instead of looking to collective labour law for a rule of decision. The Article argues that the reform agenda in investment law will not change this insensitivity to collective labour law. These reforms respond to a prevailing vision of human rights wherein the procedural, communitarian principles that create the conditions for trade unionism and industrial democracy are devalourised and subordinated to property rights, the speech and associational rights of corporations and union objectors, and a vision of non-discrimination geared towards equal competition for prosperity.

Teaching

International law

United States law

Recent SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

  • The Temporal Limits of Armed Conflict: Indefinite NIACs, Forever Wars, and Prolonged Occupation, panel, American Society of International Law annual meeting, Washington, DC, April 2025

  • The 2024 ICJ Advisory Opinion, panel, University of Maryland, Carey School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland, April 2025

  • An International Law Perspective on Palestine, panel, Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina, April 2025

  • Inviolability and War, American Association of Law Schools annual conference, San Francisco, California, January 2025

  • Palestine’s Land and Its Fate: Post-U.S. Election Perspectives, panel, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, November 2024

  • From Crémieux to Gerezim: Performative and constitutive citizenship, Middle East Studies Association annual meeting, virtual, October 2024

  • The International Court of Justice on Occupation and Self-Determination, panel, New York University School of Law, New York, New York, October 2024

  • Inviolability and War, American Society of International Law international criminal law section conference, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, June 2024

  • Demystifying UNRWA, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 2024