Biography: 

Lotta Lampela joined the firm’s transactional team in September 2025.

After almost two decades in senior government positions in national security and diplomacy in Europe, Lotta began her legal journey in the United States with an LL.M. from Syracuse University College of Law. Prior to joining Sheehey, she served the Vermont Superior Court as a judicial law clerk in Orange and Washington Counties.

Originally trained as a lawyer in her native Finland, Lotta is working towards eligibility to sit for the Vermont Bar exam, supervised by members of the Vermont Bar.

Publications:

• Russian Mass Destruction of the Natural Environment in Ukraine. Volume I: Individual Responsibility, with Mia Bonardi et al., Global Accountability Network, August 2023
• A “Combined Arms” Response to Disinformation, with James E. Baker, Latvijas intereses Eiropas Savienībā (Journal of the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) 2023/1 (June 2023)
• The International Criminal Court’s Jurisdiction over Extraordinary Renditions from the Territory of States Parties, with David Crane et al., Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce (May 2023)
• Prosecuting the Crime of Aggression: Russia and Beyond – Reflections on an ILW 2022 Panel (March 6, 2023), blog post, American Branch of the International Law Association
• Proposal for a Resolution by the United Nations General Assembly & Accompanying Proposal for a Statute of a Special Tribunal for Ukraine on the Crime of Aggression, with Hans Corell, David M. Crane, and Irwin Cotler, Global Accountability Network, September 2022
• Considerations for the Setting Up of the Special Tribunal for Ukraine on the Crime of Aggression, with David M. Crane, Kanalya Arivalagan, and Rohan Bhattacharjee, Global Accountability Network, July 2022