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Courtney Furner

Associate

Admission

Australia, 2012
Zurich (foreign lawyer), 2022

Nationality

Australian, Polish

Languages

English , German

Zurich

Stampfenbachplatz 4
P.O. Box 212
8042 Zurich
Switzerland

Contact

+ 41 58 105 2100

Courtney Furner joined LALIVE in 2017. Her main areas of practice are international commercial and investment arbitration with a focus on complex disputes involving infrastructure projects.  She has acted as counsel, tribunal secretary and arbitrator in arbitration proceedings under various rules (ICC, Swiss, ICSID, UNCITRAL, LCIA and CIETAC Rules).  She has also sat as tribunal secretary and arbitrator.

Courtney Furner is an active member of numerous arbitration associations including Young ICCA, ACICA45, ASA below 40, DIS40, and ArbitralWomen.  She is presently Co-Director of the Young ICCA Mentoring Programme and an international representative of ACICA45’s Steering Committee.

Before joining LALIVE, Courtney Furner worked as Associate to the Honourable Justice Robert Mazza of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, Court of Appeal (2015-2016) and in the dispute resolution team of Norton Rose Fulbright (2010-2014) in Perth, Australia.  She has also tutored on civil procedure at the University of Western Australia, volunteered as a Humanitarian Observer with the Australian Red Cross, and interned at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

Courtney Furner holds a Bachelor of Laws/Arts from the University of Western Australia (2011) and an LL.M. in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS) from Geneva Law School and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (2017, MIDS-Young ICCA Scholar).  She has also undertaken legal studies at various universities and academic institutions in Germany, Austria, and The Netherlands.

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ASAbelow40 Seminar

29/09/2023 Bern Courtney Furner Speaker, Practical Session: "Effective and efficient witness preparation in international arbitration"

ICC Young Arbitrators’ Forum (YAF) Conference

28/06/2023 Frankfurt, Germany Courtney Furner Speaker: ‘Illegality – The Set-Aside Court Perspective’

MIDS

2nd Annual Alumni Event

18/11/2022 Geneva Courtney Furner Moderator: State Liability for Environmental, Social and Governance Measures

DIS40 Munich

Webinar

05/11/2020 Courtney Furner Speaker: Respondent’s non-participation in international arbitration

For more information, see the programme.

Young ICCA (together with Equity, Kinstellar & Jurvenshservice)

Young ICCA Skills Training Workshop on Advocacy in International Arbitration

11/10/2019 Kyiv Courtney Furner Speaker: Practical exercise – preparing Requests and Answers in ICC arbitration

For more information, see the programme.