Professional Contributions

Publications

2022

Marina Kofman 'No waiver of foreign State immunity from jurisdiction by New York Convention ratification: High Court of Australia on recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards; ICSID analogy rejected (CCDM Holdings LLC v The Republic of India)', LexisNexis, 28 May 2026

2022

'Australia: Blasket v Spain: Federal Court enforces intra-EU ICSID awards; sovereign immunity waived; Achmea and Komstroy objections rejected; assignment valid (Blasket v Spain)', LexisNexis, 5 November 2025

2019

Marina Kofman ‘Headnote: Venezuela US SRL v Venezuela, Interim Award on Jurisdiction (on the Respondent’s Objection to Jurisdiction Ratione Voluntatis, PCA Case No 2013-34; IIC 851 (2016), 26 July 2016’ Investment Claims, Oxford University Press (2019)
Marina Kofman ‘Report of the Rapporteur for the “Hot Topics” Panel’ in Jean Kalicki and Mohamed Abel Raouf (eds) Evolution and Adaptation: The Future of International Arbitration: ICCA Congress Series No. 20 (WoltersKluwer, 2019) 873
Andrew Battisson, Dylan McKimmie, Sherina Petit, Alfred Wu, Philip Nunn, Tamlyn Mills and Marina Kofman, ‘Challenges to awards: Recent jurisprudential and legislative developments’ Norton Rose Fulbright International Arbitration Report (Issue 13, September 2019)
Andrew Battisson, Katie Chung, Cara Dowling, Matthew Buckle, Tamlyn Mills and Marina Kofman ‘A Global round-up: Developments in international arbitration rules and law s’ Norton Rose Fulbright International Arbitration Report (Issue 13, September 2019)

2018

Max Bonnell, Stuart Blaxell and Marina Kofman ‘2018 International Arbitration Survey: The Evolution of International Arbitration’ The Australian Corporate Lawyer 28(3) Spring 2018, 10-12 (August 2018)
Max Bonnell, Alexander Rowe and Marina Kofman ‘2018 International Arbitration Survey: The Evolution of International Arbitration’ The ACICA Review 6(1) (June 2018)

2017

Marina Kofman ‘TDM IACL Case Report Eli Lilly v. Canada Award’ Transnational Dispute Management (Nov 2017)
Marina Kofman and Erika Williams ‘Australia: Coal and Wind Interests power ISDS threats’ IBA Arbitration News (2017) 22(1) (June 2017)
Marina Kofman ‘International Investment Arbitration and the Rule of Law’ Rule of Law Institute of Australia (Apr 2017)
Marina Kofman ‘TDM IACL Case Report CEAC Holdings v. Montenegro Award’ Transnational Dispute Management (Mar 2017)
Marina Kofman ‘TDM IACL Case Report Pac Rim Cayman LLC v. Republic of El Salvador Award’ Transnational Dispute Management (Jan 2017)

2016

Marina Kofman ‘UNCITRAL’s Progress on an International Mediation Instrument’ The ACICA Review 4(2) 2016 (Dec 2016)
Jane Ellis, Anurag Bana and Christian Decle ‘Blockchain Technology, is it building a brighter future?’ (Dec 2016) IBA Legal Policy & Research Unit (researcher)
Marina Kofman ‘Lord Goldsmith talks to ACICA audience about Brexit and Arbitration’ ILA Reporter (Nov 2016)
Marina Kofman ‘Case note: Internationalism in the Interpretation of the Commercial Arbitration Acts’ (2016) The CIArb Australia News 3 (1) 2016 (Oct 2016)
Marina Kofman ‘Business and human rights for the legal profession’ Lawyers Weekly (Oct 2016)
Marina Kofman ‘Diagnosing Corruption within Judicial Systems’ Rule of Law Institute of Australia (Aug 2016)
Marina Kofman ‘Uruguay’s Victory Against Big Tobacco’ Australian Outlook (Aug 2016)
Marina Kofman ‘TDM IACL Case Report Philip Morris v. Uruguay Decision on Jurisdiction’ Transnational Dispute Management (Jul 2016)
Deborah Tomkinson and Marina Kofman ‘Shifting Sands: Current Developments in the Global Dispute Resolution Landscape ’ (2016) 26(2) The Australian Corporate Lawyer (Jun 2016)
Marina Kofman ‘Tobacco: Investor-State Claim Up in Smoke’ Australian Outlook (Jun 2016)
Marina Kofman and Erika Williams ‘TDM IACL Case Report Philip Morris Asia Limited v. The Commonwealth of Australia’ Transnational Dispute Management (May 2016)
Marina Kofman ‘TDM IACL Case Report Crystallex International Corporation v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,’ Transnational Dispute Management (May 2016)
Marina Kofman, ‘Full Steam Ahead for Hague Conference Judgments Project’ NSW Young Lawyers Civil Litigation Committee Quarterly Newsletter (Mar 2016)

Policy submissions

2017

Law Society of NSW (Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee) ‘Consultation Paper 18 – Dispute Resolution Model Provisions’ Submission to the NSW Law Reform Commission’ (Apr 2017)(contribution as a member of the Law Society ADR Committee)

2016

Marina Kofman ‘Impacts of the Proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership on Australia’ Submission to Senate Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee Inquiry on the Proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (Nov 2016)
Marina Kofman ‘Technological Innovations and New Business Systems’ Submission to the Future of Law and Innovation in the Profession Commission of Inquiry, Law Society of NSW (Oct 2016)

Presentations

2019

‘Investor State Arbitration: A Force for Good?’ Debate Speaker (CIArb Australia Young Members Group, Australian Arbitration Week, Brisbane, 19 November 2019)
‘Future of Trade, Investment & International Commercial Arbitration Disputes’ Panel Chair (International Law Association & NSW Young Lawyers Conference, ‘The Future of International Dispute Settlement’, Sydney, 27 June 2019)

2018

‘Current Issues in International Arbitration: third party funding, expedited proceedings and investor-state dispute settlement reform’ Panellist (AFIA Symposium, Australian Arbitration Week, Melbourne, 18 Oct 2018)
‘Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Challenges and Reforms’ Presentation on ‘Current Challenges in International Dispute Settlement’ Panellist (78^th Biennial International Law Association Conference, Sydney, 20 August 2018)
‘Current developments in investor-state dispute settlement’ Panellist (4^th Annual May Seminar, UNCITRAL National Coordination Committee for Australia, Canberra, 25 May 2018)

2017

‘Arbitration, UNCITRAL and Australia’ Presentation (University of Queensland & UNCITRAL Trade Law Forum: ‘50 Years of UNCITRAL’, Brisbane, 2 Dec 2016)

Professional Memberships

Asia-Pacific Forum for International Arbitration Australasia Representative (Jan 2019 – present); ACICA Representative & Publications sub-Committee (Sept 2016 – Jan 2019)
ARIAS (Asia) (Insurance and Reinsurance Arbitration Society) Head of Arbitrator Panel (Mar 2017 – Jun 2021) and Regional Head of Australia (Mar 2017 – Present)
Law Society of NSW Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee Member (2022, 2020, 2019 and 2017); ADR Policy sub-Committee (2017)
Law Society of NSW Litigation Law and Practice Committee Member (2021)
UNCITRAL National Coordination Committee for Australia Fellow (Oct 2016-2020)
Australian Professional Indemnity Group NSW Steering Committee Member (Oct 2015 – April 2016)
NSW Young Lawyers International Law Committee

Vice Chair (May 2015 – April 2017)
Program Convenor, International Negotiation and Dispute Resolution Series (Jan 2016 – Oct 2016)
Australian Institute of International Affairs Coordinator (Feb 2013 – Jun 2015)

Editorial roles

Utrecht Journal of International and European Law Specialist Editor (June 2017– Present)
International Law Association (Australian Branch) Assistant Editor, ILA Reporter (Sept 2016 – Dec 2017)

Treaty negotiations

UNCITRAL Working Group III (Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform) Delegate, resumed 38^th session, Vienna (Jan 2020); Delegate, 38^th session, Vienna (Oct 2019); Delegate, 36^th session, Vienna (Oct 2018); 35^th Session, New York (April 2018); 34^th session, Vienna (Nov 2017)
Hague Conference on Private International Law Assistant to the Permanent Bureau, Special Commission on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, The Hague (Feb 2017)
UNCITRAL Working Group II (Dispute Settlement) Delegate, 67^th session, Vienna (Oct 2017), 66^th Session, New York (Feb 2017), 65^th Session, Vienna (Sept 2016)

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