Camilla Gambarini

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Camilla is a Special Counsel at Withers. She is dual qualified as an Avvocato (Italy) and Solicitor Advocate (England & Wales), and specialises in public international law and international arbitration.

She advises companies on the protection of investments under international investment treaties and sanctions, and States on boundary disputes, cultural heritage, international humanitarian law, international investment law, law of the sea, natural resources, sovereign immunity, statehood issues and treaty law. Camilla regularly assists clients in pro bono human rights cases before constitutional courts, the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies and human rights courts. Recent public international law highlights include advising a State in the context of the Advisory Opinion on Climate Change before the International Court of Justice and drafting submissions for two NGOs in the context of the Advisory Opinion on Climate Emergency and Human Rights before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Camilla has represented Mauritius in the negotiations of a treaty with the UK in relation to the Chagos Archipelago.

In the international arbitration field, she assists clients from both civil and common law jurisdictions and has represented individuals, companies, States and State-owned entities in international arbitrations (commercial and investment treaty) across a range of sectors, including the apparel, aviation, construction energy, gambling, infrastructure, insurance, metal, oil & gas, and railway industries in different regions of the world, particularly Africa, CIS countries, MENA and Latin America. She has experience of international arbitrations under the auspices of the CAM, CIAC, ICC, ICSID, LCIA and UNCITRAL rules.

Camilla is involved in arbitration associations and editorial boards. She served as Co-Chair of Young ICCA (2018-2020) and as UK Coordinator of the Italian Arbitration Association AIA-Arbit below 40 (2020-2025). She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitration and is on the board of the American Review of International Arbitration at Columbia Law School, the Lexis PSL Arbitration Consulting Editorial Board, the Editorial Board of Brill Research Perspectives in International Investment Law and Arbitration. She is an Editor of Jus Mundi Wiki Notes on Investment Arbitration and is one of the Co-Chairs of the Annual Juris Conference on Investment Treaty Arbitration. She is fluent in Italian, English, French and Spanish.