Diana A. Arsanjani Reisman
Diana Reisman joined Friedman Kaplan in November 2025 to focus on complex commercial disputes with transnational or multijurisdictional components.
Prior to joining Friedman Kaplan, she was a clerk for the Honorable José A. Cabranes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the Honorable Colleen McMahon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Before that, Diana was an associate at King & Spalding LLP in New York, where she focused on international commercial and investment arbitration.
Outside the Office
Diana is a John C. Whitehead Fellow at the Foreign Policy Association.
Fast Facts
Practice Areas
Education
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D. (2021)
Sciences Po Paris, M.A. International Security (2017)
Yale University, B.A. with distinction (2014)
Bar Admissions
State of New York
U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
Clerkships
The Honorable Colleen McMahon, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
The Honorable José A. Cabranes, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Law Review and Publications
Editor-in-Chief, The Georgetown Journal of International Law
Procedural Issues: Remedies & Enforceability, The Research Handbook on International Claims Commissions 257 (Chiara Giorgetti, Hélène Ruiz Fabri & Patrick Pearsall eds., 2024) (co-authored with Aloysius Llamzon).
Who Thinks Treaties Are Like Contracts? Not John Marshall, 37 Am. U. Int’l Rev. 946 (2023) (co-authored with David P. Stewart).
Rebus sic stantibus as a Stabilizing Doctrine in the Climate Crisis, 11 Climate Law 211 (2022).
Apportioning Fault for Performance Corruption in Investment Arbitration, 37 Arbitration International 1 (2021).
Breaking Bad: Fail-Safes to the Hague Judgments Convention, 109 Geo. L.J. 879 (2021); reprinted in Revue de droit international d'Assas. N° 4 (2021).
The EU and FDI: What to Expect from the New Screening Regulation, Note de Recherche N°104, Institut de Recherche Stratégique de L'Ecole Militaire (2020).