SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

Overview

Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD)

Teaching Fellow

Name:

Ms Joanna Dingwall

Email address:

jd101@soas.ac.uk

Address:

SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Building:

Russell Square: College Buildings

Biography

Currently Joanna is an associate at Volterra Fietta, a dedicated public international law firm.

In this capacity, she advises and represents States, international organizations and private entities on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious public international law and international dispute resolution matters, including: the protection of international investments under bilateral and multilateral investment treaties, free trade agreements and concession contracts; the structuring of international investments to minimise political risk; treaty drafting and interpretation; State sovereignty over natural resources; land and maritime boundary delimitations; the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the deep seabed mining regime; drafting and negotiating natural resource concession agreements on behalf of international investors; sovereign immunity; Statehood and international legal personality; State succession; State responsibility; retroactivity issues; international environmental law; denial of justice and expropriation claims; self-determination; human rights; international humanitarian law; international criminal law; the use of force; legal aspects of the arms trade; the law and procedure of international organisations; recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards; international arbitration and litigation.  

Before joining Volterra Fietta, Joanna was an associate in the London office of Latham & Watkins from 2008 to 2011, where she was a member of the Public International Law and International Dispute Resolution Practice Groups.  Prior to this, Joanna was a solicitor for the Scottish Government Legal Directorate in Edinburgh, where she worked in the litigation department, assisting in the representation of the Scottish Ministers' interests in civil litigation in UK courts and tribunals. Casework ranged from judicial reviews of conditions of prisons to high profile and groundbreaking House of Lords cases defining the devolution settlement and its interaction with the European Convention on Human Rights, and addressing complex issues of European law.

During 2003 and 2005, Joanna worked for extended periods in the Offices of Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Court, both situated in The Hague.

She has previously worked with the Scottish Human Rights Centre and REDRESS on a voluntary basis, and also served as Secretary of the Darfur Training Committee throughout 2007.

Joanna has also tutored on various public international law issues at the University of Glasgow.