Laura Yvonne Zielinski, LLM (Columbia)

Attorney-at-law (New York), Associated Partner

Arbitration
laura.zielinski@noerr.com
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Career

Studied law at Sciences Po in Paris (France) and Columbia Law School in New York City (USA)
Legal practice in the areas of international arbitration and public international law
Doctorate studies at the Institute for Air Law, Space Law, and Cyber Law at the University of Cologne
Admitted to the New York State Bar
Admitted to the Barreau de Paris
Authorized to practice law in Mexico
2026
Joined Noerr

Memberships

  • Vice Chair of the Space Law Committee of the International Bar Association
  • Founder of the Space Arbitration Association
  • Member of the International Institute of Space Law

Publications

  • Eight Reasons Why Space Disputes Will Become More Frequent
    Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 9 February 2026
  • Co-contributor to the Guidelines on Legal Aspects of AI in Space
    IISL, 27 January 2025 (https://iisl.space/iisl-publishes-report-of-iisl-working-group-on-legal-aspects-of-ai-in-space/)
  • Investment Protection in Outer Space
    Columbia FDI Perspective No. 399, December 2024
  • Orbiting Human Built Object: Managing and Resolving Satellite Disputes (with Jan Frohloff)
    GAR – The Guide to Aviation and Space Disputes, 2024
  • Space Arbitration and Harmful Interference Disputes
    Journal of Space Law, Volume 46.2, 2022
  • Space Mining Disputes on the Horizon?
    IBA Space Law Committee Newsletter, December 2022
  • The Rise of Satellite Arbitrations
    GAR – The Guide to Telecoms Arbitrations, 2022, 2023 und 2024
  • The Case for Space Arbitration: Can You Recover Damages Caused by Space Collisions?
    SpaceNews, 23 March 2022
  • Property Rights in Treaty Cases: Lessons for Investor-State Arbitration from Case A15 (II:A) of the Iran-US Claims Tribunal
    Kluwer Journal of International Arbitration, Volume 38, Issue 3 (2021), p. 394–414
  • Space Arbitration: Could Investor-State Dispute Settlement Help Mitigate the Creation of Space Debris?
    EJIL Talk!, 19 March 2021
  • "You Cannot Lose What You Never Had": The Law Applicable to Property Determinations in ICSID Arbitration
    The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 17 (2018), p. 271–285
  • 'Legitimate Expectations' in the Vattenfall case
    Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 10 January 2017
  • Chapter on Myanmar
    Investment Protection in Southeast Asia, L. Malintoppi und C. Tan (Hrsg.), Brill Nijhoff, 2016
  • Kiobel: A Narrower Ambit for the Alien Tort Statute (with W. Thomas and H. Haeri)
    GAR, 15 July 2013
  • Contributor to Oxford University Press' Investmentclaims.com on Procedure
    2014–2021

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