Arbitration, Commercial Law, Corporate Law, Environment, Infrastructure, Public international Law
· ‘Enforcing Foreign Arbitral Awards in the Federal Court of Australia‘ (2024) 12(1) The ACICA Review 29
· ‘Institutional Approaches to Ethics in Arbitration‘ (2022) 41(1) The Arbitrator & Mediator 21
· ‘Due Process in a Virtual World‘ (2021) 9(1) The ACICA Review 29
· ‘Facebook (temporarily) Un-Friends Australia: Arbitration as a Tool in Online Media Regulation’, Kluwer Arbitration Blog (Blog Post, 26 March 2021)
· ‘Foreign Investors’ Increasing Awareness of Investor-State Arbitration – view from Australia‘ (2020) 39 Australian Resources and Energy Law Journal 35
· ‘Federal Court of Australia enforces ICSID Awards against Kingdom of Spain’ (2020) 8(1) The ACICA Review 32
· ‘A change in Investment Treaty Climate: Infrastructure Services Luxembourg S.A.R.L. v Kingdom of Spain’ (2019) 7(2) The ACICA Review 39
· ‘The Non-Responsive Respondent: Taking an Arbitration Forward and How’ (2019) 85(1) The International Journal of Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Management 65
· ‘Arbitrating Down Under: Highlights and lessons learned from 2018 to 2019‘ (2019) 15(2) Asian International Arbitration Journal 133
· ‘The ‘Bones’ Arbitration: An American Cautionary-Tale for Australian Practitioners’ (2019) 7(1) The ACICA Review 37
· ‘Arb-med-arb: Follow the rules or face the costs: Ku-ring-gai Council v Ichor Constructions Pty Ltd‘ (2019) 38(1) The Arbitrator & Mediator 108
· ‘Out in the cold: WA Court of Appeal upholds freezing order against Spanish-owned construction company involved in arbitration‘ (2019) 38(1) The Arbitrator & Mediator 112
· ‘Internationalising the International Arbitration Act‘ (2019) 38(1) The Arbitrator & Mediator 122
· ‘Apply to Set Aside, or Appeal Against an Award?’ (2018) 38(8) Proctor 14
· ‘Due process paranoia and its role in the future of international commercial arbitration‘ 37(1) The Arbitrator & Mediator 43
· ‘Indemnity cost orders for overzealous applicants: John Holland Pty Ltd v Adani Abbot Point Terminal Pty Ltd‘ 37(1) The Arbitrator & Mediator 99
· ‘Director’s fury over road block to litigation: Mad Max arbitration to be heard in Hollywood’ (2018) 6(1) The ACICA Review 25
· ‘International Arbitration Australia: 2018 Year in Review’ McCullough Robertson Publication
· ‘Australia Signs the Mauritius Convention: How Investor-State Arbitration Might Look With More Transparency‘ (2017) 5(2) The ACICA Review 40
· ‘The Rinehart Saga Continues… in private‘ (2017) 4(1) The CIArb Australia News 103
· ‘International Commercial Arbitration 101’ (2017) 37(11) Proctor 16
· ‘Turbines tussle may test free trade agreement‘ (2017) 37(5) Proctor 20
· ‘Australia: coal and wind interests power ISDS threats‘ (2017) 22(1) International Bar Association Arbitration News 16
· ‘Australian Courts’ Approach to Multi-Party and Multi-Contract Arbitration’ (2016) 4(2) The ACICA Review 29
· ‘Court Slams Sino Dragon’s Attempt to Set Aside Arbitral Award‘ (2016) 3(2) The CIArb Australia News 51
· ‘The Saga of Ye v Zeng‘ (2016) 35(1) The Arbitrator & Mediator 105
Erika Williams established an independent arbitration practice in 2021 after 15 years in international and national firms acting for parties in some of the largest international and domestic commercial, construction and investor-state disputes resolved through arbitration.
Since then, Erika has sat as sole and presiding arbitrator in arbitrations under institutional rules such as ICC, SIAC, Resolution Institute and ad hoc and served as tribunal secretary in high-value complex cases. Erika was also engaged as Counsel at ACICA from 2021 to 2024 and has consulted to a number of firms on arbitration related matters in her independent capacity.
Erika has been recognised in Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) for arbitration in 2024 and 2025. She has also been listed as a leading arbitration lawyer in Australia in Doyles Guide for the last four years and was recognised as the Arbitration Practitioner of the Year at the Australian ADR Awards 2021.
