Jessica Crow

Jessica Crow is an independent arbitrator and international law consultant with Arbitra International and an academic at the University of Cambridge. She specialises in energy and natural resources, climate change and the environment, international dispute resolution and public international law.

Jessica has more than a decade of experience in international commercial and investment arbitration. She has served as sole arbitrator, co-arbitrator and counsel under most major arbitral institutions, numerous governing laws, and arbitral seats. She handles high-value, complex disputes across a range of industry sectors, including energy, construction, transportation, telecoms, fintech, joint ventures, insurance, agency, and general commercial disputes.

Jessica is an expert in the law and governance of the energy transition, climate change and environmental law. She is particularly sought out for matters that pertain to ESG and due diligence, renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure, carbon markets and emissions trading and the commercial and investment implications of decarbonisation. In the field of climate law and governance, she advises corporates, investors, governments and other key stakeholders in relation to ESG and climate dispute risk, international and domestic climate policy and energy transition regulations.

Jessica’s practice is also shaped by her role with leading research institutions. She is an affiliated lecturer at the University of Cambridge where she teaches climate law and environmental policy and a researcher in international climate litigation at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG), where she collaborates with world-leading experts in climate science, economics, and law.

Prior to becoming a full-time arbitrator and academic, Jessica worked in private practice at leading global firms in London and Paris where she acted as counsel for corporates, states and state-owned entities in international commercial and investment arbitration. She also has experience in the energy sector as in-house counsel to a prominent Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) company and in the public sector as a legislative assistant to the Government House Leader in the Parliament of Ontario, Canada.

Jessica is a member of ICC Canada, sits on the Advisory Board of the Young Canadian Arbitration Practitioners, and is a co-chair of Campaign for Greener Arbitrations, North America. She works in English and French and has knowledge of Spanish and Italian. She is qualified to practice in New York and England and Wales.

She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge and holds a BA Hons (McGill University), an LLB Hons, (University College London) and an LLM (QMUL Energy & Climate Change Institute). She has completed executive training on the impact of the climate emergency on global business at the University of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.