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Stanimir
A.
Alexandrov
Partner
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STANIMIR A. ALEXANDROV is the co-chair of the firm's International Arbitration practice. Mr. Alexandrov focuses his practice in the areas of international dispute resolution, including investor-state arbitration and international commercial arbitration, and resolution of trade disputes before the World Trade Organization (WTO).
He has represented private parties and governments in arbitration before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), as well as in ICC, UNCITRAL, and AAA international arbitrations. He has also represented governments in WTO disputes. Mr. Alexandrov has been appointed to the ICSID’s Panel of Arbitrators and Panel of Conciliators and serves as an arbitrator in a number of cases under the arbitration rules of ICSID, the ICC, the London Court of International Arbitration and UNCITRAL. He has appeared as an expert witness in international arbitration on investment treaty interpretation. Mr. Alexandrov’s current and recent international arbitration cases include representations of global investors, such as Vivendi, Tate & Lyle, Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co., GE, Bechtel, Impregilo S.p.A., and Cargill, and of sovereigns including Costa Rica, Turkey and Peru. He is listed in Chambers Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2005-2009; Chambers Global World’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2007; Chambers Latin America, 2009; The Legal 500: United States, 2007-2009; The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers (Arbitration) 2005-2009; Practical Law Company’s Cross-Border Handbook on Dispute Resolution 2007/08 and 2008/09; and Who’s Who Legal’s Commercial Arbitration 2010.
Mr. Alexandrov was Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, where he managed Bulgaria’s relations with the European Union, the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and NATO and was responsible for all legal work of the Foreign Service. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of Bulgaria in Washington, D.C., where he negotiated trade and investment agreements and worked with the World Bank and the IMF.
He is a professor at the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., where he teaches courses on international law and dispute settlement.
Mr. Alexandrov’s publications have been cited by parties to disputes before the International Court of Justice and by Judges of the Court.
In addition to English and Bulgarian, he is fluent in French, Russian and Spanish.
Publications
Books
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International Human Rights in a Nutshell, Sofia, 1997, with Judge Thomas Buergenthal (in Bulgarian)
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Self-Defense Against the Use of Force in International Law, Kluwer, 1996
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Reservations in Unilateral Declarations Accepting the Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, Martinus Nijhoff, 1995
Articles
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“Breach of Treaty Claims and Breach of Contract Claims: Is It Still Unknown Territory?” in Arbitration under International Investment Agreements: A Guide to the Key Issues (Katia Yannaca-Small ed., Oxford 2010);
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“Wider Prospects for ICSID Arbitration Under China’s BITs,” in The Asia-Pacific Arbitration Review (2010), with Marinn Carlson, Jennifer Haworth McCandless and Geoffrey D. Antell.
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“Enforcement of ICSID Awards: Articles 53 and 54 of the ICSID Convention” in International Investment Law for the 21st Century: Essays in Honour of Christoph Schreuer (Oxford, 2009);
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“Proximate Causation in International Investment Disputes” in Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy (Karl Sauvant, ed.) (2009), with Joshua M. Robbins;
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“Vivendi (Compañía de Aguas del Aconquija) v. Argentina Case” in Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (2008);
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“Canada—Measures Affecting the Export of Civilian Aircraft” and “Brazil — Export Financing Programme for Aircraft” in The Case-Law of the WTO (Brigitte Stern and Hèléne Ruiz Fabri, eds.) (2007);
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“The Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice: How Compulsory Is It?” 5(1) Chinese Journal of International Law 29 (2006);
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“The ‘Baby Boom’ of Treaty-Based Arbitrations and the Jurisdiction of ICSID Tribunals: Shareholders as ‘Investors’ and Jurisdiction Ratione Temporis,” 4 The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals 19 (2005);
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“Breaches of Contract and Breaches of Treaty: The Jurisdiction of Treaty-Based Arbitration Tribunals to Decide Breach of Contract Claims in SGS v. Pakistan and SGS v. Philippines,” in 5(4) Journal of World Investment and Trade 555 (2004);
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“The Vivendi Annulment Decision and the Lessons for Future ICSID Arbitrations - The Applicants’ Perspective,” in Annulment of ICSID Awards (Gaillard and Banifatemi, eds.) (2004);
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“Inducing Compliance in WTO Dispute Settlement,” in The Political Economy of International Trade: Essays in Honor of Robert E. Hudec, Cambridge University Press (Kennedy and Southwick, eds.) (2002), with David Palmeter;
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“Accepting the Compulsory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice with Reservations: An Overview of Practice with a Focus on Recent Trends and Cases,” 14 Leiden Journal of International Law 89, (2001);
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“Paving the Way for Bulgaria’s Accession to the European Union,” 21 Fordham International Law Journal 587 (1998);
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“Further European Integration is Inevitable,” in European Integration and American Interests: What the New Europe Really Means For the United States (Jeffrey Gedmin, ed.) (1997);
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“Non-Appearance before the International Court of Justice,” 33 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 41 (1995); and
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“Delimitation of the Continental Shelf in an Enclosed Sea,” Hague Yearbook of International Law 3 (1992)
- Institut de Droit International
- American Bar Association
- American Society of International Law
- London Court of International Arbitration
