Isabella Uría is an associate in the Foley Hoag's International Litigation & Arbitration Practice in Washington D.C. Her practice centers on disputes in public international law, investor-State disputes and international commercial arbitrations.
Isabella has experience representing sovereign States and State entities before the International Court of Justice, as well as in commercial and investment arbitrations under the ICSID and UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and in arbitral award set-aside proceedings before U.S. courts. She has experience working on disputes or providing legal advice on matters relating to territorial delimitation, the law of the sea, construction projects, and renewable energy.
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Before arriving at Foley Hoag, Isabella was Assistant Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague. In this position, she worked on multiple bilingual investment arbitrations in English and Spanish, an Annex VII arbitration under the United Nations Convention for the Law of the Sea, and a commercial arbitration involving an intergovernmental organization, among other cases.
Furthermore, Isabella previously worked as a researcher for the Nuclear Risk Reduction Project at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, where she examined the risks associated with the nuclear programs of Russia, China, Pakistan and North Korea, and participated in diplomatic dialogues with nuclear experts from these countries regarding nuclear proliferation and terrorism.