Albertson’s services in this area combine both the legal and technical expertise required to support states in the determination of disputed land or maritime boundaries as well as their ongoing management. We provide examinations of boundary and resource agreements, counsel on treaty negotiations and drafting, explorations of the mechanisms to settle border disputes and legal advisory on the management of transboundary natural resources.

We offer representation, legal advice and technical assistance to clients seeking to navigate the proliferation of sanctions regimes, including coercive measures enacted by the UN Security Council and regional organisations, unilateral sanctions as well as comprehensive and sector-specific embargoes and targeted measures. Our team evaluates the legal, policy, and business implications of the implementation of sanctions regimes, in order to assesses their legality and critically evaluate countermeasures which best promote client interests.

Our services allow clients to effectively and confidently traverse the complex diplomatic terrain, through our expertise in the interpretation and application of diplomatic law and the contemporary practice of diplomacy. We advise on the establishment of diplomatic relations, immunity from civil and criminal jurisdiction, bilateral and multilateral diplomatic ties and the law and policy of international organisations. We also support clients in the settlement of disputes as well as the exercise and maximisation of targeted influence in bilateral and multilateral negotiations.

Albertson advises on the protection and realisation of all forms of human rights and international justice, with particular expertise in International Humanitarian Law and Criminal Law, as well as integrated counsel on matters of trafficking, counter-terrorism, anti-corruption, and money laundering.