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Christina G. Hioureas
Adjunct Associate Professor of Law

Fordham University School of Law
140 West 62nd Street
New York, NY 10023 		Email: CHioureas@chadbourne.com

Teaching

  • First-Year Legal Writing, Fordham University School of Law, 2012-present

Experience

Advises and represents States, international organizations and private entities on an extensive range of contentious and non-contentious public international law and international dispute resolution matters.  These matters include: the protection of international investments under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties, free trade agreements and concession contracts; the structuring of international investments to minimize political risk; treaty drafting and interpretation; sovereign immunity; denial of justice and expropriation claims; international environmental law; international human rights law; Alien Tort Statute / Torture Victim Protection Act claims; recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards; international arbitration and litigation.
  • Senior Associate, Latham & Watkins, Public International Law practice group, 2009-present
  • Associate, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, 2007-2009

Education

  • University of California, Berkeley School of Law, J.D. 2007
         Managing/Associate Editor, Berkeley Journal of International Law
         Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot
  • University of California, B.A. 2004, High Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa

Publications

  • Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum: Is Corporate Liability Under The Alien Tort Statute On Its Way Out?, BERKELEY J. INT’L L. PUBLICIST (2011)
  • Transatlantic Environmental Regulation-Making: Strengthening Cooperation between California and the European Union, (with Bruce E. Cain), EDWARD ELGAR PUBLICATIONS (2010)
  • Glamis Gold, Ltd. v. United States: A Case Study on Disclosure Procedure in International Arbitration (with Véronique Camerer), 2 WORLD ARB. & MEDIATION REV. 3 (2008)
  • US Discovery in Aid of International Legal Proceedings: Developments since the Intel Decision under Section 1782, (with Peter C. Thomas), 4 DEUTSCH-AMERIKANISCHE JURISTEN-VEREINIGUNG 177 (2006)
  • Note, Behind the Scenes of Protocol No. 14: Politics in Reforming the European Court of Human Rights, 24 BERKELEY J. INT’L L. 718 (2006)

Affiliations

Admitted
  • U.S. Supreme Court (2012)
  • Solicitor, England & Wales (2012)
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit (2008)
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (2008)
  • State Bar of California (2007)

Memberships

  • American Bar Association
  • American Society of International Law (ASIL)
  • European Society of International Law (ESIL)
  • Northern California International Arbitration Club
  • British Institute of International and Comparative Law
  • First Generation Law Student Mentor, UC Berkeley School of Law