Judith Levine

Judith Levine is an independent arbitrator with extensive dispute resolution experience in public international law, investment treaty, commercial contract, and sports cases. She brings valuable insight from her work in both private practice and at public institutions. Judith is listed as a Global Elite Thought Leader for Arbitration and in 2025 entered the Arbitrator “Hall of Fame” at the Australian ADR Awards, having won “Arbitrator of the Year” three times.

Judith has sat as presiding arbitrator, sole and co-arbitrator in disputes at the ICC, ICSID, PCA, SIAC, ACICA, DIAC, HKIAC, KCAB and CAS and as a privilege inspector in an investor-state case under the UNCITRAL Rules. Judith is the President of the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, an inaugural member of the National Sports Tribunal, a judge of the Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal, and a sessional member of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal. In June 2024, she was one of 10 individuals designated by the President of the World Bank to the ICSID Panel of Arbitrators.

Now based in Sydney, Judith worked for over a decade at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague where, as Senior Legal Counsel, she administered some of the world’s most complex disputes, including the South China Sea, Yukos and Bangladesh Accord arbitrations. Prior to joining the PCA in 2008, J...