I’m Kate, an Academic Fellow at Columbia Law School. My research concerns sovereign states’ contractual relationships, how those contracts are treated in international arbitration and domestic courts, and the role of such contracts in the international economic order. I am interested in sovereign states’ dual role as regulators of and participants in the market, and the limitations they face in unilaterally shaping the law that governs their contracts. Representative publications are listed below.

Prior to coming to Columbia, I worked at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, where I facilitated arbitrations involving sovereign states, state entities, and international organisations. I have a J.D. from Yale Law School, a DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford, and an A.B., summa cum laude, from Harvard College.