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Practice
Lizabeth L. Burrell is counsel in the Firm’s International Corporate Department. With twenty-five years of experience as a lawyer in New York City, Ms. Burrell’s expertise in maritime litigation and arbitration and commercial maritime matters includes charter disputes, Carriage of Goods by Sea Act, drafting charter agreements for specialized trades, arrest and attachment of vessels, cargo, bunkers and bank accounts, marine insurance, supplier claims, shipyard disputes, foreclosure of ship mortgages and drafting bills of lading.
Other areas of Ms. Burrell’s practice are in state and federal appellate litigation, commercial litigation, arbitration and advice concerning international and domestic sales and purchase agreements, particularly oil trading. She has experience in dispute resolution involving the Uniform Commercial Code, the Federal Arbitration Act, the Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, and RICO.
Ms. Burrell is the first woman to hold the position of President of the Maritime Law Association of the United States. She is admitted to practice in the state of New York and before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
Education
J.D., New York University School of Law, 1980
M. Phil., with distinction, Columbia University, 1976
M.A., with honors, Columbia University, 1974
B.A., cum laude, Swarthmore College, 1973
Associations
Maritime Law Association of the United States
- President (2006-2008)
- First Vice President (2004-2006)
- Second Vice President (2002-2004)
- Secretary (1996-2002)
- Membership Secretary (1994-1996)
- Board of Directors (1992-Present)
- Chairperson, Committee on Uniformity of U.S. Maritime Law (1988-1994)
- Steering Committee, Committee on Carriage of Goods (1991-1996)
- Secretary, Committee on Uniformity of U.S. Maritime Law (1985-1988)
- MLA delegate to Paris, Bordeaux and Vancouver meetings of the Comité Martime International (1990, 2003, 2004)
Comité Maritime International
- Audit Committee Chair
- Titulary Member (2000-Present)
American Bar Association (Member, Litigation and International Sections)
Torts and Insurance Practice Section (Admiralty Committee Vice Chair (1996-2004)
Associate Editor, AMERICAN MARITIME CASES (1999-Present)
Associate Editor, BENEDICT’S MARITIME BULLETIN (2003-Present)
Tulane University Admiralty Law Institute National Advisory Board (2000-Present)
Advisory Committee, Seamen’s Church Institute Center for Seafarers’ Rights (1997-2005)
Board of Advisors, University of San Francisco Maritime Law Journal (1994-Present)
Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (elected 1992)
Fellow of the New York Bar Foundation (elected 2005)
International Bar Association (Member, Section on Business Law, Maritime Law Committee); New York State Bar Association (Member; International Section, Admiralty Committee; Commercial and Federal Litigation Section); Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member; Admiralty Committee (1986-1989); Arbitration Committee (1991-1994)); New York Women’s Bar Association (1997-Present) (Member, International Law Committee (1992-present)); Association of Average Adjusters of the United States (Associate Member (1995-present))
Recent Lectures and Publications
Seeking Uniform Rules for Global Commerce: The UNCITRAL Draft Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea, Panel Chair, New York State Bar Association International Law and Practice Section Meeting, Stockholm, Sweden (September 2008)
Regulatory Review: What Will the Beltway Focus on Next?, Lecture at the Maritime Security Council’s 2008 International Conference on International Security (April 2008)
The Draft UNCITRAL Draft Convention on Contracts for the International Carriage of Goods Wholly or Partly by Sea: The Most Promising Solution for Wasteful Conflicts, Lecture at Texas International Law Journal Symposium on Transport Law for the 21st Century: The New UNCITRAL Convention (March 2008)
Burrell on Yamaha: Expert Commentary, LexisNexis Expert Commentaries, Yamaha v. Calhoun, 516 U.S. 199 (Matthew Bender & Company, Inc. 1996) (December 2007)
The Elusive Goal of International Uniformity, Lecture to Iberoamerican Institute of Maritime Law XII International Congress (November 2007)
The Mischief that Results When the Supreme Court Uses Broad Language to Answer Narrow Questions, Lecture to Southeastern Admiralty Law Institute (June 2007)
Plus Ça Change: The Protean World of the Maritime Specialist, keynote speech at Tulane Admiralty Law Institute, 81 TUL. L. REV. (March 2007)
New Directions Update: An American Perspective, New Directions in Maritime Law, Eastern Admiralty Law Association and Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society (June 2006)
Tulane Admiralty Law Institute, Panelist, Maritime Transportation (March 2005)
John W. Sims Distinguished Admiralty Practitioner in Residence, Tulane University (April 2000)
Uniformity of Maritime Law and the Supreme Court: Till Death Do Us Part, delivered at ABA Annual Meeting, August 1998, 25 TUL. MAR. L.J. 153 (2000)
Application of State Law to Maritime Claims: Is There a Better Guide than Southern Pacific v. Jensen?, Fifteenth New Orleans Maritime Seminar sponsored by Tulane University, 21 TUL. MAR. L.J. 153 (1996)
Forum Non Conveniens, 29 MOORE’S FEDERAL PRACTICE 704.05 (3d ed.)
The U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Allocating Responsibility among Settling and Non-Settling Maritime Defendants (1994), 1 INTERNATIONAL MARITIME LAW (4 July 1994)
Problems in Enforcement of International Arbitration Awards, American Conference Institute Continuing Legal Education Program on International Commercial Disputes (May 1993)
Current Problems in Maritime Uniformity, 5 U.S.F. MAR. L.J. 67 (1992), also delivered as lecture for Pacific Admiralty Seminar (September 1992)
The Preparation and Trial of a Commercial Arbitration, New York State Bar Association Continuing Legal Education Seminar (1990)
Drafted, with J.C. Smith, Comparative Aspects of Commonwealth and U.S. Law Since the Collision Convention, 57 TUL. L. REV. 1092 (1983)
Selected by Maritime Law Association of the United States to author amicus curiae briefs accepted by the United States Supreme Court in Argentine Republic v. Amerada Hess Shipping Corp., No. 87-1372 (October Term 1987), The United Kingdom Mutual Steamship Assurance Association (Bermuda) Limited v. State Establishment for Agricultural Product Trading, No. 88-115 (October Term 1988), Guangzhou Maritime Transport Bureau of China v. Hughes Drilling Fluids, No. 88-777 (October Term 1988), Texaco Refining and Marketing Inc. v. Dau Van Tran, No. 89-1754 (October Term 1989), American Dredging Company v. Miller, No. 91-1950 (October Term 1991 and October Term 1992), Holmes v. Taylor, No. 92-1107 (October Term 1992), involving issues such as forum non conveniens, maritime jurisdiction, and forum selection clauses (1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993)
Lectures on maritime arbitration (Young Lawyers’ Division, Admiralty Committee of the August 1993 ABA meeting) and laytime calculations (Society of Maritime Arbitrators 1991)
Leadership and Recognition
Listed as one of The World’s Leading Shipping and Maritime Lawyers in Legal Media Group Expert Guide to the World’s Leading Shipping and Maritime Lawyers (2008)
Listed as one of The World’s Leading Lawyers in Chambers Global (2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, 2006, 2007)
Listed as one of America’s Leading Business Lawyers in Chambers USA (2003-2004, 2004-2008)
Listed in New York Magazine’s Best Lawyers in New York and New York Super Lawyers (2005, 2006, 2007)
Professional Activities
Judge for Elliott B. Nixon Prize awarded by the American Maritime Law Foundation, Inc. (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000)
Brief Judge of the Judge John R. Brown Admiralty Moot Court Competition (1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006)
Oral Argument Judge of the Judge John R. Brown Admiralty Moot Court Competition (2001, 2005, 2007)
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