Zeineb Bouraoui

About/Bio

Zeineb Bouraoui is an incoming international arbitration & public international law associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. She recently earned her LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School, where she notably advocated for the rights of wrongfully detained Yemeni activists through Harvard International Human Rights Clinic’s collaboration with Human Rights Watch. Before that, Zeineb was a junior policy analyst at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Investment Division, where she worked on investment treaty policy and contributed to the OECD’s Freedom of Investment Roundtable, an intergovernmental forum hosted by the OECD Investment Committee, which brings together some 54 governments from around the world to exchange information and experiences on investment policies. Her publications include: References to Fair and Equitable Treatment in International Investment Agreements: A Survey of Treaty Provisions (co-authored with Joachim Pohl), OECD Working Papers on International Investment (Forthcoming). Zeineb earned her undergraduate degree and her first degree in law from Sciences Po Paris.

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UNCITRAL and ISDS Reforms: Concerns about Costs, Transparency, Third Party Funding and Counterclaims

As explained in a previous post, we have put together four posts that compile the most relevant quotes from the first two meetings of the UNCITRAL Working Group sessions on states’ concerns about investor-state dispute settlement. To facilitate discussions about the desirability of reforms and their potential nature, we have organized these quotes into key themes that…

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UNCITRAL and ISDS Reforms: Concerns about Arbitral Appointments, Incentives and Legitimacy

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UNCITRAL and ISDS Reforms: Concerns about Consistency, Predictability and Correctness

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