Miriam Harwood

Nationality(ies): American

Practice Areas

  • Arbitration
  • Commercial Law
  • Construction - Engineering
  • Corporate Law
  • Energy - Natural Resources
  • Infrastructure
  • Insolvency
  • Intellectual Property
  • Investment - Concession agreements
  • Joint Ventures - Consortia - Cooperation
  • Oil - Gas - Mining

Bar Admission

COUNTRYSTATE / REGION
Bar Admission - Country and State:
Country: United States

Experience with arbitral institutions

  • Arbitration Institute (SCC)
  • International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA-ICDR)
  • International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
  • International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
  • London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA)
  • Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA)
  • Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC)

Education

Juris Doctor, Fordham University School of Law

Bachelor of Arts, Political Science and History, Barnard College - Columbia University 

Speaking Engagements

Ÿ  New York Arbitration Week, USCIB/ICC USA, Speaker, Shaping the Future of International Investment Contracts:  Current Challenges and Solutions.  New York, November 20, 2025

Ÿ  Juris Conference, 19th Annual Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference, Speaker, True or False:  Arbitrator Challenges that are based upon issue conflicts have gone off the rails?  Toronto, October 31, 2025

Ÿ  GAR Academy Live: Speaker, Advocacy Skills Workshop, New York, September 17, 2025.

Ÿ  51st Session of UNCITRAL Working Group III, Singapore Mission to the U.N., Speaker, Enforcement of Standing Mechanism Decisions in Domestic Courts.  New York, April 7, 2025

Ÿ  Columbia Law School, Columbia Arbitration Day, The Resilience of International Arbitration.  New York, January 31, 2025

Ÿ  New York Arbitration Week, Speaker, Emerging Standards and Expectations in International Arbitration.  New York, November 21, 2024

Ÿ  Columbia Law School, Center for International Commercial and Investment Arbitration, Speaker, Reform of Investor-State Arbitration: Where are We Headed?  New York, November 19, 2024

Ÿ  Juris Conference, 18th Annual Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference, Speaker, Douala and the IBA Rules on Conflicts.  New York, November 18, 2024

Ÿ  New York International Arbitration Center, Grand Central Forum, Speaker, This House Believes that Preliminary Dispositions are Essential.  New York, September 24, 2024

Ÿ  Global Arbitration Review, GAR Live North America Conference, Speaker, Impact of U.S. Elections on International Arbitration. New York, September 24, 2024

Ÿ  Ninth Annual Sarajevo Arbitration Day, Speaker, Should Western Balkan Countries Withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty?  Sarajevo, Bosnia, November 8, 2023

Ÿ  Juris Conference, 17th Annual Investment Treaty Arbitration Symposium, Speaker, Investor-state Mediation. Washington, D.C. October 12, 2023

Ÿ  Global Arbitration Review, GAR Live New York, Speaker, A new era of enforcement.  New York, September 19, 2023

Ÿ  Paris Arbitration Week, Speaker, News From Across the Pond:  Recent Vital Developments in US Arbitration.  Paris, March 30, 2023

Ÿ  Paris Arbitration Week, Speaker, NERA Symposium: Economic Harm:  Advanced Topics for Lost Profit and Lost Business Value.  Paris, March 29, 2023

Ÿ  Columbia Law School, International Arbitration Association, Navigating Third-Party Funding in International Arbitration.  New York, March 23, 2023

Ÿ  New York International Arbitration Center, Speaker, Damages and Quantum Experts in International Arbitration.  New York, January 18, 2023

Ÿ  Juris Conferences, 16th Annual Conference on Investment Treaty Arbitration, Speaker, UNCITRAL Working Group III Proposals.  Washington, D.C., October 14. 2022

Ÿ  10th Annual Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference, hosted by the Czech Republic Ministry of Finance, Speaker, Attribution of Harm Under International Law.  Prague, October 2020

Ÿ  Juris Conferences, 14th Annual Conference on Investment Treaty Arbitration, Speaker, Security for Costs.  Washington, D.C., June 2020

Ÿ  9th Annual Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference, hosted by the Czech Republic Ministry of Finance, Speaker, The Perennial Problem of Legitimate Expectations.  Prague, October 2019

Ÿ  Juris Conferences, 13th Annual Conference on Investment Treaty Arbitration, Speaker, Energy Charter Treaty Arbitrations after Achmea. Washington, D.C, May 2019

Ÿ  8th Annual Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference, hosted by the Czech Republic Ministry of Finance, Speaker, Issues Faced by Respondent States.  Prague, October 2018

Ÿ  7th Annual Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference, hosted by the Czech Republic Ministry of Finance, Speaker, New Trends in Expropriation.  Prague, October 2017

Ÿ  Global Arbitration Review, GAR Live, Speaker, The Year in Review: Developments in International Arbitration.  New York, September 2017

Ÿ  Columbia Law School, Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI), Speaker, International Investment Agreements: Treaty Protections and Domestic Law.  New York, February 2017

Ÿ  6th Annual Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference, hosted by the Czech Republic Ministry of Finance, Speaker, Role and Effects of Local Law and Court Decisions.  Prague, October 2016

Ÿ  Young ICCA, Speaker, Skills Training Workshop. Tirana, Albania, September 2016

Ÿ  University of Houston Law Center, Third Annual Houston Conference on Oil and Gas Investment, Speaker, Transnational Law on Environmental Liability.  Houston, Texas, September 2016

Ÿ  Juris Conferences, Fifth Annual Conference on Damages in International Arbitration, Speaker, Law and Finance in Investment Arbitration Awards.  Washington, D.C., September 2016

Ÿ  Global Arbitration Review, GAR Live, Speaker, Post-Brexit Opportunities for International Arbitration.  New York, September 2016

Ÿ  5th Annual Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference, hosted by the Czech Republic Ministry of Finance, Speaker, Damages Workshop: Legal and Economic Principles for Quantification of Damages.  Prague, October 2015

Ÿ  Juris Conferences, Third Annual Conference on Damages in International Arbitration, Speaker, Burden of Proof and Evidentiary Standards for Damages.  New York, October 2014

Ÿ  4th Annual Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference, hosted by the Czech Republic Ministry of Finance, Speaker.  Prague, October 2014

Ÿ  Global Arbitration Review, GAR Live, Speaker, The Year in Review:  Developments in International Arbitration.  New York, September 2014

Ÿ  Institute for Transnational Arbitration, ITA-IEL Joint Winter Forum, International Energy Arbitration, Speaker, Energy Arbitrations with State Enterprises.  Houston, Texas, February 2014

Ÿ  International Law Institute, Faculty, Expropriation and Compensation in International Arbitration.  Washington, D.C., December 2013

Ÿ  Juris Conferences, Second Annual Conference on Damages in International Arbitration, Speaker, Perspectives on Advocacy. Washington, D.C, November 2013

Ÿ  3rd Annual Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference, hosted by the Czech Republic Ministry of Finance, Speaker.  Prague, October 2013

Ÿ  Juris Conferences, 7th Annual Conference on Investment Treaty Arbitration, Speaker, Calculating Damages in Energy Disputes. Washington, D.C., April 2013

Ÿ  Global Arbitration Review, GAR Live, Speaker, Third-Party Funding in International Arbitration.  London, November 2012

Ÿ  Juris Conferences, Damages in International Arbitration, Speaker, Legal Principles and Burden of Proof for Damages. New York, October 2012

Ÿ  2nd Annual Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference, hosted by the Czech Republic Ministry of Finance, Speaker, Fair and Equitable Treatment Standards under Bilateral Investment Treaties. Prague, October 2012

Ÿ  ABA Third Annual Conference on the Resolution of CIS-Related Business Disputes, Speaker, States and State Entities as Parties to Arbitration.  Moscow, Russia, September 2011

Ÿ  Juris Conferences, 5th Annual Conference on Investment Treaty Arbitration, Speaker, The Future of ICSID Arbitrations.  Washington, D.C., April 2011

Ÿ  Columbia Law School, Speaker, Foreign Investors vs. Host States: Shifting Trends in Investment Arbitration.  November 2010

Ÿ  American University Washington College of Law, Seventh Annual Seminar on International Commercial Arbitration: Speaker, How to Handle Competition Issues.  Washington, D.C., October 2010

Teaching Experience

Ÿ  New York International Arbitration Center, Advocacy Academy, Mock Tribunal President, January 27 and 29, 2026.

Ÿ  Guest lecturer on international arbitration, Columbia University Law School, April 2024.

Ÿ  Faculty, Global Arbitration Review “GAR Academy” training program on advocacy in international arbitration, 2024-2025.

Ÿ  Faculty, Columbia University Law School Executive Training Program for Government Officials on International Arbitration and Investment Treaties: taught courses on international law and arbitration, investment treaties, and quantification of damages, 2017-2020.  

Ÿ  Faculty, International Law Institute, Washington, D.C.: taught courses for government officials on expropriation, damages and international standards of liability under investment treaties, 2011-2015

Firm Name

Harwood Arbitration

Address

17 Mohegan Rd10538 - LARCHMONT - New York
United States

Professional Phone

Mobile Phone

19144393144
Published elsewhere

Advisory Board, Manual on Universal Citation in International Arbitration (Global Arbitration Review, 2018)

Investment Treaty Arbitration and International Law, Volume 14 (Meriam N. Al-Rashid, Kabir Duggal, Miriam Harwood, Todd J. Weiler and Rekha Rangachari) (Papers and Proceedings of the 14th Annual Juris Conference on Investment Treaty Arbitration) (2021)

Investment Treaty Arbitration and International Law, Volume 12 (Meriam N. Al-Rashid, Kabir Duggal, Miriam Harwood, Todd J. Weiler) (Papers and Proceedings of the 12th Annual Juris Conference on Investment Treaty Arbitration) (2019)

Conflicts of Interest, Handbook on Third-Party Funding in International Arbitration (Nikolaus Pitkowitz, ed., November 2018)

Third-Party Funding in Investment Disputes, Chapter 16, Business Guide to Trade and Investment, Vol 2 (October 2018) 

Third-Party Funding: Security for Costs and Other Key Issues, in The Investment Treaty Arbitration Review (Bart Legum ed., 2nd Edition, 2017) (co-author)

Firm Name
Harwood Arbitration
English
Native Fluency
Conduct DR proceedings, Represent clients as an advocate in DR proceedings, Testify orally, Draft opinions, reports, agreements, decisions, orders or awards, Understand written documents