A U.S.-qualified lawyer, Noah Rubins is a member of the international arbitration and public international law groups in Paris. Noah is the head of Freshfields' worldwide Russia/CIS Dispute Resolution subgroup. He has advised and represented clients in arbitrations under the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), ICSID Additional Facility, LCIA, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), American Arbitration Association, Stockholm Arbitration Institute, and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) rules. He specialises in disputes in the former Soviet Union and investment treaty arbitration. In addition to advising clients, Noah has served as arbitrator in a range of disputes, conducted under the ICC, ICSID, LCIA, SCC and UNCITRAL rules.

Noah is widely published in the field of arbitration, and is a frequent conference speaker. He is a lecturer at the University of Dundee, Scotland, and has also served as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law Center in Washington, DC. His most recent publications include the monographs Investment Treaty Arbitration (with Dugan, Wallace and Sabahi), ICSID Decisions 2003-2007 (with Happ), and International Investment, Political Risk and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (with Kinsella).

Noah received a master's degree in dispute resolution and public international law from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Brown University. He speaks fluent English, French and Russian, and also speaks Spanish, Hebrew and some Turkish.

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