Norah Gallagher

Director, Investment Treaty Forum and Senior Research Fellow


Norah Gallagher took over the role of Director of the Investment Treaty Forum at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in January 2008. Before joining the Institute, she worked in the International Arbitration Group of Herbert Smith where she advised on a wide range of issues relating to international arbitration (under all of the main institutional rules; ICC, LCIA, AAA ICDR, Stockholm and ICSID) from drafting valid arbitration agreements (including bifurcated, multi-tiered and multiparty arrangements) procedural issues, interim relief to enforcement of awards. She also advised on investment treaty arbitrations under relevant BITs and multilateral treaties. Previously, she was a Research Fellow of the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge for several years working exclusively on international dispute resolution, including land and maritime boundary disputes, investment disputes under NAFTA, bilateral investment treaties and the Energy Charter Treaty. Norah is also a part-time lecturer on the International Trade and Investment Dispute Settlement course at Queen Mary, University of London.

Publications

  • ICSID Arbitration: A practitioner's guide to form and procedures (PENDING - Co-authors Loukas Mistelis and Silvina Gonzalez Napolitano, Autumn 2008)
  • Chinese Investment Treaties: Law Policy and Practice (PENDING Co-author Wenhua Shan, OUP Summer 2008)
  • Arbitration in the United Kingdom in Getting the Deal Through - Arbitration 2007, (Global Arbitration Review, May 2007) (co-author Larry Shore)
  • The Requirement for Substantive Nationality BIICL Investment Treaty Forum Series 2005 (BIICL, Summer 2007)
  • Impartiality of Arbitrators - English and Irish Law Contrasted (co-author Gearoid Carey)[2006] Int ALR
  • Interest on arbitral Awards: English and Irish Law compared(co-authors Laurence Shore Gearoid Carey) 13 (4) Commercial Law Practitioner April 2006 (Roundhall Press)
  • Parallel Proceedings: res judicata and lis pendens in Contemporary Problems in International Arbitration, Lew & Mistelis (Eds) (Kluwer,2006)
  • Bilateral Investment Treaties: Options and Drawbacks (co-author, Laurence Shore) [2004] Int ALR 49

Presentations

  • Procedural Irregularity: Limits and Lessons Learned BIICL Annual Review of the Arbitration Act January 2008
  • Energy Security and the ECT (Herbert Smith, client Seminar)
    Parallel Proceedings in Investment Arbitration (School of International Arbitration, 20th Anniversary Seminar)
  • The Requirement for Substantive Nationality (BIICL, Investment Treaty Forum)
  • The Legality of the War in Iraq (Herbert Smith)
  • International Sanctions: the Effectiveness of the UN Regime (UCL)
  • International Sanctions Regime: a New Era (International Law of Natural Resources, (UCL/SOAS)
  • US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Provisions and Application (LSE)
  • The Just War Concept: does it exist today? (University of Tilberg, The Netherlands)

Education

  • BCL (University of Dublin)
  • Diploma In European Law (University of Dublin)
  • LLM Comparative European Law (University of Dublin)
  • MA International Law and Human Rights (University of Padua, Italy)
  • Admitted as a Solicitor in Ireland and England

Membership of professional bodies:

  • Visiting Senior Fellow, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London
  • Solicitor, Law Society of Ireland and Law Society of England
  • Member, ICC
  • Member, London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
  • Member, International Law Association (ILA)
  • Irish Government International Election Monitoring and Rapid Response Registers

Contact n.gallagher@biicl.org