Marinn Carlson

Practice Areas

MARINN CARLSON, co-leader of the firm’s Global Arbitration, Trade and Advocacy practice, focuses her practice in international investment disputes, with an emphasis on investor-state arbitration. She represents both cross-border investors as well as respondent governments in ICSID and UNCITRAL arbitrations under investment treaties (BITs) and free trade agreements, including NAFTA/USMCA and the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), and has served as arbitrator. She counsels clients in sectors ranging from financial services to energy to infrastructure development on the implications of international trade and investment rules for their global operations, and has served as arbitrator. She also represents corporate clients from around the world in a wide range of institutional and ad hoc international commercial arbitrations, including under ICC and SCC rules among others, and has represented clients in U.S. litigation with international ramifications before the United States Supreme Court and various courts of appeal.

Marinn is an Adjunct Professor at both George Washington University Law School and American University’s Washington College of Law teaching investment treaty arbitration, and has spoken at conferences and taught workshops and seminars on a wide range of topics, including investor-state arbitration case law and practice as well as arbitration advocacy skills. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy (FIAA) and a past Vice President of the American Society of International Law (ASIL), and she recently completed nine years’ service on the Board of Directors of the CAIR Coalition, a Washington, D.C. legal services organization focused on immigrants’ rights.