Dara Brown
Biography
Overview
Dara Brown is an associate in the Firm's International Arbitration Group. She represents and advises private parties and foreign sovereigns in the resolution of international disputes and serves as an Associate Leader for the Firm's Sovereigns and Public Sector Industry Group. Her practice focuses on investment treaty and commercial arbitration, as well as public international law.
Dara represents clients in arbitrations before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). She has experience in a wide range of industries, including mining, construction, energy, and real estate development.
Dara also advises clients on compliance with economic sanctions and export controls laws and regulations.
Dara has experience representing clients in a variety of pro-bono matters. She has successfully secured a settlement on behalf of a human trafficking victim and prepared arguments on behalf of recipients of non-unanimous jury verdicts before Louisiana's Fourteenth Judicial District Court (pro hac vice).
In addition, Dara serves as a Junior Board Member of the DC Volunteer Lawyers Project providing legal representation to domestic violence victims. She also serves on the Firm's Global Citizenship Committee for the D.C. office.
Dara graduated with honors from Cornell Law School where she was an editor for both the Journal of Law and Public Policy and LII Supreme Court Bulletin. She was awarded the Glushien Prize for her publication in the Cornell International Law Journal. Dara also received the Freeman Award for Civil-Human Rights for her work with Lawyers Without Borders in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Prior to joining White & Case as a Summer Associate, Dara interned at the White House for the Vice President and his counsel. Following graduation, Dara received the Berger International Fellowship where she traveled to France to further develop her international law skills.
Experience
Represented a Canadian mining company in a multi-billion-dollar ICSID arbitration under Romania's bilateral investment treaties BITs with Canada and the United Kingdom;
Represented the Republic of Bulgaria in two ICSID arbitrations under the Energy Charter Treaty concerning electricity regulations;
Defended the Republic of Bulgaria in an ICSID arbitration under the Bulgaria-Israel BIT relating to a real estate development project;
Represented a Kuwaiti logistic company in an ICSID arbitration under the Iraq-Kuwai BIT relating to a telecommunications license concession;
Represented an Italian construction company in an ICSID arbitration arising under the Italy-Panama BIT concerning the Panama Canal expansion project;
Advised several multi-national corporations on how to structure their investments for optimal investment treaty protections, particularly in the APAC market;
Represented Microsoft in the context of small and medium sized white-collar investigations; and
Appeared as an amicus curiae in a case before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals concerning officers' invalid execution of a no-knock warrant (pro-bono).
Washington Arbitration Week, International Arbitration in the Era of Climate Change: Renewable Energies, Geoengineering and the Critical Mineral Industry, Dec. 2023
Cornell Law School, International Arbitration Society, Introduction to International Arbitration, Oct. 2022
University of Chicago Law School, International Law Society, Careers in International Arbitration, Nov. 2020
Dara P. Brown, LGBT Rights are Human Rights: Conditioning Foreign Direct Investment on Domestic Policy Reform, 50 CORNELL INT'L L.J. 611 (2019)
Berger International Fellow, Paris, France
Recipient of the Berger Fellowship in International and Comparative Law.
Glushien Prize, Ithaca, NY
Awarded for the best student note or comment concerning current social problems published in Cornell International Law Journal.
Freeman Award for Civil-Human Rights, Ithaca, NY