She has experience representing clients before the International Court of Justice, as well as in commercial and investment arbitrations under the ICSID and UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules and in arbitral award set-aside proceedings before U.S. courts.
Before arriving at Foley Hoag, Isabella was Assistant Legal Counsel at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, working on bilingual investment arbitrations in English and Spanish and on an Annex VII arbitration under the United Nations Convention for the Law of the Sea, among other cases. She previously worked as a researcher for the Nuclear Risk Reduction Project at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, where she examined the risks associated with the nuclear programs of Russia, China, Pakistan and North Korea, and participated in diplomatic dialogues with nuclear experts from these countries regarding nuclear proliferation and terrorism.
