Supritha Suresh

Senior Lecturer

Biography

Supritha Suresh is a Senior Lecturer specializing in international dispute resolution. Before joining JSW Law, she worked with the Kingdom of Bahrain in designing the policy architecture and management plan for the Bahrain International Commercial Court, as well as Bahrain’s strategic efforts to establish itself as a regional dispute resolution hub. In this capacity, she liaised closely with sovereign as well as private entities to negotiate and draft governing legal frameworks, including treaties, legislation, partnership agreements, and MoUs. She also authored Bahrain’s official contributions on dispute settlement and investor-State reform to international bodies such as the OECD and UNCITRAL, impacting global policy discourse.

Her broader professional experience includes advising States and private corporations in commercial and investment treaty arbitrations with Three Crowns in their Bahrain and Washington D.C. offices. She has also served as a strategy consultant for TERES, a leading AI company developing customized technology solutions for international disputes. Earlier in her career, she trained at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID, World Bank Group).

She has published widely on international arbitration, co-authoring numerous book chapters and articles, and serving as assistant editor to the treatise Arbitration in India, whose editors included Martin Hunter and Fali Nariman.

Supritha is licensed to practice law in New York. She is a trained mediator, a certified business practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and a Member of the Advisory Board for the Centre for Online Resolution of Disputes.

She regularly acts as tribunal secretary to Prof. Jan Paulsson and accepts independent mandates as an arbitrator or mediator.

Areas of Interest

– Mediation
– Negotiation
– Investor-State Dispute Resolution
– International Commercial Arbitration

Publications

– AI: The Modern Tribunal Assistant – Impact on Enforceability of Arbitral Awards under the New York Convention, Jus Mundi Arbitration Review, Volume 1, Issue 1, (Jus Mundi, 2024) [co-author with Marike Paulsson]
– The VCLT as a Cure for the New York Convention’s Bottlenecks: Interpretative Tools as the Ultimate Medicine for the Next Sixty Years?, in The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties in Investor-State Disputes: History, Evolution, and Future, E Shirlow and K Gore (eds.), (Kluwer, 2022) [co-author with Marike Paulsson]
– Enforcement of Awards, Modules on Articles III, IV and V(1)(a) of the New York Convention, in Practical Insights Module, Kluwer Arbitration Practice Plus, (Kluwer Practice Plus, 2022) [co-author with Marike Paulsson]
– Enforcement of Awards, Modules on Articles V(1)(c) and V(1)(d) of the New York Convention, in Practical Insights Module, Kluwer Arbitration Practice Plus, (Kluwer Practice Plus, 2021) [co-author with Marike Paulsson and Ashutosh Ray]
– The India Resolutions for the 1958 Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Awards, in Arbitration in India, D Dave et al., (eds.), (Kluwer, 2021) [co-author with Fali Nariman and Marike Paulsson]
– Ongoing Efforts Towards Reforming the ISDS System: An Aide-Memoire of the System’s Need Amidst Calls for Iconoclasm, in Arbitration in India, D Dave et al., (eds.), (Kluwer, 2021) [co-author with Marike Paulsson and George Pothan]
– National Report for the Kingdom of Bahrain, in ICCA Hearings Project, (ICCA, 2021) [co-author with Aysha Mutaywea]
– The New York Convention’s 60th Anniversary: A Restatement for the New York Convention?, in 60 Years of the New York Convention: Key Issues and Future Challenges, K Gomez and A Rodriguez (eds.), (Kluwer, 2019) [co-author with Marike Paulsson]
– Authored and presented a paper on Dispute Settlement in the ASEAN in the Asian Society of International Law Youth Forum organized in conjunction with the 5th Biennial Conference of the Asian SIL held in Bangkok (November 2015)

Courses

– International Commercial Dispute Resolution
– Treaty Law, Negotiation and Diplomacy
– Appropriate Dispute Resolution Clinic

Education History

– LL.M. in International Arbitration, University of Miami School of Law
– B.A. LL.B. (International Trade and Investment Law honors), National Law University Jodhpur (India)