Joshua Kelly

Practice Areas

Joshua is a Senior Associate in Freshfields’ international arbitration group and public international law practice in London. He has previously spent time in our Paris office. Joshua acts in commercial, investor-state and inter-State arbitration and litigation, representing and advising a broad range of clients (including States and State-owned entities) with a focus on Africa, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and offshore jurisdictions. He has experience in disputes across the mining and metals, oil and gas, telecoms and technology, life sciences, insurance/reinsurance and defence sectors.

Joshua has particular expertise in:

• investments in high-risk jurisdictions

• tax disputes involving issues of international law

• UNCLOS and the law of the sea (including sea-level rise and the arrest and detention of vessels)

• international organizations

• immunities under international law

• land and maritime boundary disputes

• anti-corruption laws, sanctions and international criminal law, and

• international humanitarian law and human rights, including before the European Court of Human Rights.

Prior to joining Freshfields, Joshua worked as a government lawyer in Australia providing legal advice to senior government officials on issues of international law and public law.

Personal

Joshua graduated from the Australian National University with a Master of Laws specialising in international law (with the Dean's Prize).

He also holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of Technology, Sydney (where he ranked 2nd in his graduating year and received subject prizes for torts, succession, industrial law and for best oral advocate in various mooting competitions).