"Incredibly deep PIL strength"
- Chambers Global 2009

"Public International Law: Band 1"
- Chambers Global 2008, 2009, 2010

Public international law is centrally important in today’s globalized economy. For years our firm has been ranked in the top tier by Chambers Global and other leading guides to the profession for its public international law expertise. White & Case has represented more than 60 sovereign states, international organizations, numerous state-owned entities, and many private and commercial parties in their dealings involving public international law matters. Our practice involves lawyers based in offices in the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

Our firm is internationally renowned for our "platinum" investor-state practice and has been recognized repeatedly for its unsurpassed capabilities acting as counsel in disputes arising under investment protection treaties. Our team has decades-long experience in the area that includes representing numerous states as well as private entities in disputes arising under international law and investment treaties, including bilateral investment treaties (BITs), the Energy Charter Treaty, the ASEAN Investment Agreement, the DR-CAFTA, and the NAFTA, in ICSID arbitrations and in arbitrations under the UNCITRAL rules.

White & Case's Public International Law group also has counseled clients and handled matters in regard to claims before numerous specialized international courts, commissions and tribunals, including:

• Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA)
• International Court of Justice (ICJ)
• European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)
• European Court of Justice
• Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission
• United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC)
• Iran-United States Claims Tribunal
• International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)
• Dispute Settlement Understanding of the World Trade Organization (WTO)
• Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)
• Extraordinary Chambers of the Cambodian Courts (ECC)

We advise and represent States, international organizations, multinational corporations, and other clients on contentious and non-contentious matters relating to:

• Trade, investment, and tax treaty negotiations
• Treaty accession
• State succession
• Extradition
• Expropriations
• Economic sanctions
• Territorial and boundary disputes
• Human rights
• Water resources
• Air and water rights
• Sovereign immunities
• International organizations
• Foreign corrupt practices
• International environmental law
• Sovereign debt
• International trade law and the WTO
• Transboundary pipelines
• Energy Charter Treaty
• State responsibility
• Project specific international agreements
• Diplomatic privileges and immunities
• Extra-territorial applications of national laws
• Oil and gas concessions
• Mining and natural resource concessions
• NAFTA
• DR-CAFTA
• ASEAN agreements
• BITs and investment protections
• Privatizations

We also advise our clients on a wide range of other issues.