Nudrat Piracha

Solicitor

Firm or Organisation
George Washington University

Present Position
SJD at George Washington University

Type of Practitioner
Arbitrator, Counsel, Lawyer, Mediator

Nationality
pakistani

Country of Residence
United States

Jurisdiction
Pakistan, United Kingdom

Legal System
Common Law, Islamic Law

Practice Areas
Arbitration, Commercial Law, Construction, Engineering, Corporate Law, DRB (Dispute resolution board), DAB (Dispute adjudication board), Infrastructure, Investment, Concession agreements, Joint Ventures, Consortia, Cooperation, ODR (Online dispute resolution), Public international Law, Trade, Industry

Experience
Construction law, WTO, PPP and International commercial and investment arbitration

Bar Admission
In Pakistan 2003 and In U.K. 2008

Education
SJD George Washington University (School of Law), LL.M from London School of Economics

Publications
Tethyan Copper Company Pty Limited v. the Islamic Republic of Pakistan – liability under a BIT despite domestic court’s findings of corruption and illegality, Blog, 2017 Updated all the cases and laws of Pakistan on the Kluwer website/ International Transnational Arbitration Website. The Award of the ICJ in the Kishan Ganga Dispute, Kluwer Blog, 2012. The Award in Riko Dik Case, Asia Pacific Forum, 2017. Case Reports on Pakistani case laws, Kluwer Arbitration, 2012. Reports on various arbitration and investment-related legislation of Pakistan, Kluwer Arbitration, 2012. Reports on various Bilateral Investment Treaties of Pakistan, Kluwer Arbitration, 2012. Dissertation on Toward Uniformly Accepted Principles for Interpreting MFN Clauses: Striking a Better Balance between State Sovereignty and the Protection of Investors

Teaching
Not available

Other Information
I am a Fulbright scholar, a Weinstein JAMS International Fellow for 2018 and the first lawyer from Pakistan to become a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UK (FCIArb). I am an alumna of the London School of Economics and Political Science. In a career stretching over seventeen years, I rose to partnership at the leading Pakistani firm, Samdani & Qureshi, before leaving for my SJD at George Washington in 2015. I have worked as counsel in the areas of International Commercial, Construction & and Investment Arbitrations before tribunals constituted under the rules of arbitration of International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), International Court of Arbitration–International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre (Dubai International Financial Centre), and Adhoc Tribunals. I am a Solicitor of England, and Wales besides being a Member of the High Court Bar of Pakistan. I am Country Reporter for Pakistan for Kluwer Arbitration International/Board of International Transnational Arbitration and OGMID. I served as a scholar in residence for six months in ICSID in 2016. I have been designated by the Government of Pakistan as an arbitrator on the panel of ICSID, for a term of 8 years. I worked for about a year with the Infrastructure Project Development Facility, Ministry of Finance, Pakistan, which is a focal point for establishing public-private partnerships for the development of the Infrastructure of Pakistan in the capacity of Legal Advisor. I also worked as a legal officer in the National Tariff Commission (NTC), the body in charge of regulating WTO laws relating to the anti-dumping and countervailing measures available in Pakistan. On 9 April 2020 I successfully defended my dissertation before my committee consisting of eminent scholars and jurists, including, Mr. Sean Murphy, Dean Rosa Celorio, Judge Charles Brower, and Mr. Alexandrov Stanimir, making me the first woman and fourth lawyer in Pakistan to qualify as an SJD.

CV
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Email
[email protected]