Josefa Sicard-Mirabal has vast experience in international arbitration and international business transactions. Her multifaceted career spans across legal systems, cultures, and languages. Ms. Sicard-Mirabal is an independent arbitrator and party counsel in arbitrations under international and regional institutional rules and ad hoc arbitrations under a variety of national laws. She is also a trained mediator. She commenced her legal career as a judge in the Dominican Republic and continued her legal practice in the United States. Ms. Sicard-Mirabal is co-author of the book, Introduction to Investor-State Arbitration, with Yves Derains, Kluwer Law
International, 2018. She is an adjunct professor of law at Fordham University School of Law in New York City teaching International Business Transactions, LL.M. International Arbitration Practicum, and Introduction to Investor-State Arbitration.
Ms. Sicard-Mirabal is a dual-qualified lawyer in New York State and the Dominican
Republic. She is fully bilingual English/Spanish; speaks French, has working
knowledge of Italian and Portuguese and basic Turkish.