Julie N. Bloch focuses her practice primarily on international investment treaty and commercial arbitration matters, serving both as assistant to the arbitral tribunal and counsel. She works under various institutions and rules, including the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the Dubai International Arbitration Centre (DIAC), the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce (SCC), the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
Before joining B. Cremades y Asociados, Julie focused on international human rights and public international law. She has experience in wrongful capital convictions and the post-conviction appeal process of foreign capital defendants.
Julie holds a J.D. from Cornell Law School with a specialization in International Legal Affairs and a concentration in Public Law. She also has an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from New York University School of Law and a Graduate Certificate in Business, International Relations and the Political Economy from The London School of Economics and Political Science.
While pursuing her J.D., Julie was a Notes Editor for the Cornell International Law Journal and a student advocate in the Cornell International Human Rights Clinic. She also clerked for the Magistrat de Liaison at the French Embassy in Washington, D.C., and worked with the Freedom of Information and Expression practice group of Open Society Justice Initiative. While completing her LL.M., Julie was a Transitional Justice Scholar, a Graduate Editor for the New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, a student advocate in the Global Justice Clinic, and a member of NYU’s Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court team
Professional Experience
Julie has worked on several investor-state and international commercial matters, including:
- Multibillion-dollar ad hoc arbitration concerning a territory dispute in Southeast Asia
- Julie has worked on several investor-state and international commercial matters, including:
- Comercializadora Mediterránea de Viviendas S.L. v. Kingdom of Morocco,ICSID Case No. ARB/22/17
- Heirs and Successors-in-interest to the Sultan of Sulu and Sabah v. Malaysia, Ad Hoc
- ICSID arbitration concerning real estate investments in an Eastern European state
- ICC arbitration concerning a major Central American infrastructure project
- ICSID arbitration concerning the building and maintenance of infrastructure in a South American state
- ICSID arbitration concerning banking investments in an Eastern European state
- CAS arbitration concerning sanctions imposed on a Western European wrestler following an anti-doping control
- ICSID arbitration concerning several Energy Charter Treaty claims arising out of the building of solar plants in a Western European state
- ICC arbitration concerning the construction of a hydroelectric plant in Southern Africa
- ICC arbitration relating to the development of a port terminal in South America
- SCC arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty concerning investments in natural gas in a Western European state
- DIAC arbitration relating to the construction of a resort in the Middle East
- DIAC arbitration concerning hotel and resort construction in the Middle East
- ICSID arbitration concerning banking investments in an Eastern European state
- ICSID arbitration concerning several Energy Charter Treaty claims arising out of the building of solar plants in a Western European state
- ICC arbitration involving an EPC contract for a major infrastructure project in Central Africa
- ICC arbitration relating to the development of an infrastructure project in South America
- ICC arbitration concerning a sale and purchase agreement of a bank’s share capital
- SCC arbitration under the Energy Charter Treaty concerning investments in natural gas in a Western European state
- DIAC arbitration relating to the construction of a resort
- DIAC arbitration relating to the construction and development of a hotel
Professional Associations
- Advisory Board, Institute for Transnational Arbitration
- Editorial Board, ITA in Review
- American Bar Association
- New York State Bar Association
- Young ICSID
- ICC Young Arbitrators Forum
- ICDR Young & International
- Young ICCA
Achievements
- Freeman Award for Civil-Human Rights
- CALI Excellence for the Future Award – International and Foreign Legal Research
- CALI Excellence for the Future Award – International Criminal Law
- CALI Excellence for the Future Award – Law and Social Change: Comparative Law in Africa
- Philip C. Jessup Team Award
- K. Robert and Mary Hahn Scholar
Publications
- Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest – A Recap of a Pragmatic Panel, ITA in Review (Vol. 3, Issue 1, 2021)
- Looking to the Gravamen of the Claim: The Commercial Activity Exception of the FSIA, New York University Journal of International Law and Politics (Issue 51.2, Winter 2019)