Robert Houston Email & Phone Number

Singapore

Supporting the K&L Gates-Singapore disputes team as an international arbitration associate in connection with international arbitration, cross-border litigation, high-profile international disputes, due diligence, and internal investigations for various state-owned and multinational private entities based in Asia and around the globe while also serving as the K&L Gates Pro Bono Coordinator for the Singapore office and working with the K&L Gates Pro Bono Committee on the development of a… Show more Supporting the K&L Gates-Singapore disputes team as an international arbitration associate in connection with international arbitration, cross-border litigation, high-profile international disputes, due diligence, and internal investigations for various state-owned and multinational private entities based in Asia and around the globe while also serving as the K&L Gates Pro Bono Coordinator for the Singapore office and working with the K&L Gates Pro Bono Committee on the development of a firm-wide initiative to combat human trafficking. Show less

Singapore

Researched international arbitration in Singapore as a model for resolution of public international law disputes among the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a 2014-2015 Fulbright U.S. Student program grantee, focusing on the annual transboundary haze issue as a case study.

Supervised a team of law students as a tutor in the Human Rights Clinic Program to develop the symposium "Public Interest / Private Dispute: The Future of the Public-Private Divide in International Arbitration" in partnership with White & Case LLP in Paris (a video of the event is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg1gk5c63eo). Distinguished panelists included Diego P. Fernández Arroyo (Professor of International Law, Co-director of the program Global Governance Studies… Show more Supervised a team of law students as a tutor in the Human Rights Clinic Program to develop the symposium "Public Interest / Private Dispute: The Future of the Public-Private Divide in International Arbitration" in partnership with White & Case LLP in Paris (a video of the event is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg1gk5c63eo). Distinguished panelists included Diego P. Fernández Arroyo (Professor of International Law, Co-director of the program Global Governance Studies, Sciences Po Law School), James Castello (Partner, King & Spalding-Paris and U.S. Delegate to the UNCITRAL Working Group on Arbitration during the drafting of the Transparency Rules for Treaty-based Investor-State Arbitration), David Gaukrodger (Senior Legal Adviser, OECD Investment Division), Michael Polkinghorne (Partner, Head of Paris Office International Arbitration Group, White & Case LLP), Eliana Maria Tornese (Counsel, ICC Court of Arbitration), keynote speaker Catherine Rogers (Professor of Ethics, Regulation & the Rule of Law and Co-Director of the Institute for Ethics & Regulation, Queen Mary/University of London; Professor of Law, Penn State Law), and moderator Horatia Muir Watt (Professor of International Law, Co-director of the program Global Governance Studies, Sciences Po Law School). Show less

Reisterstown, Maryland

Deployed in 2011-2012 as the S-6 Battalion Communications Officer with the 1-175 Infantry Battalion of the Maryland Army National Guard to Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt in support of the Multinational Force & Observers peacekeeping mission under the 1979 Israel-Egypt Treaty of Peace.

Paris, France

Supported Michael Polkinghorne's international arbitration team with legal research and writing, later supporting Aloke Ray's international arbitration team as an intern at White & Case in Singapore (June-August 2015).

Paris, France

Supported Jason Fry's international arbitration team with legal research and writing.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Provided legal research and writing support to the Antitrust Division, working with a team of attorneys on review of a merger valued in excess of 1.5 billion USD. Also worked with the Consumer Protection Branch conducting legal research and writing.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Provided legal research and writing for projects ranging from development of judicial training materials on the evidentiary value of forensic science to statutory and constitutional questions.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Provided legal research and writing for litigation group in a range of practice areas from securities (e.g., Second Circuit appeal of nearly $100 million late trading judgment) to a habeas corpus petition for a Guantanamo detainee.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Tracked cases and proceedings; researched and advised attorneys in regard to procedure and practice by jurisdiction; worked with merger filings (HSR) involving the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Deptartment of Justice; also filed papers with various courts and agencies from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Juris Doctor (J.D.), International Law

Activities and Societies: Willem C. Vis International Arbitration Moot Competition, Vienna, Austria Barrister's Council Study Abroad.

Master'S Degree, Economic Law / Global Governance Studies

Activities and Societies: Human Rights Clinic

Bachelor'S Degree, Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Simultaneous enrollment at Georgetown Law.

Bachelor'S Degree, History / Classics

Activities and Societies: Philodemic Society