The DOJ - Office of Alternative Dispute Resolution of the Philippines invited Foreign Associate Anjo David to be a resource speaker for its first ever pre-moot training series. The OADR and supporting organizations joined forces for this initiative with the aim of introducing future Filipino lawyers to the practice of international arbitration.
Jose Angelo David is a foreign associate with GST LLP where he practices international commercial and investment treaty arbitration. He is licensed to practice law in the Philippines, pending admission to the New York State Bar. He is not engaged in the practice of law in the District of Columbia.
Prior to joining GST LLP, Mr. David was an associate solicitor at the Office of the Solicitor General of the Republic of the Philippines. He represented agencies in the banking, transportation, energy, and public works sectors in domestic and international arbitration proceedings, as well as in constitutional and civil litigation proceedings before the Philippine Supreme Court and trial and appellate courts. He began his legal career as an associate in the litigation and dispute resolution department of the largest law firm in the Philippines – Angara Abello Concepcion Regala & Cruz Law Offices.
Mr. David holds a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School. While at HLS, he rendered pro bono advice to the US Department of Commerce, through the HLS Law and International Development Society, on the institutional rules of the Maldives International Arbitration Centre. He was also a researcher at the HLS Environmental and Energy Law Program and an editor for the Harvard Law and Policy Review. Upon graduation, he joined the International Postgraduate Research Program of HLS as a part-time researcher under the supervision of former ICSID Secretary-General Ko-Yung Tung where his research involved reforms in the investor-state dispute settlement system.
He obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree from San Beda University where he graduated top of his class and was the recipient of the Dean’s Award and the Judge Agustin P. Montesa Memorial Award for the Most Outstanding Law Graduate. He was also the editor-in-chief of the San Beda Law Journal. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science cum laude from the University of the Philippines and a Diploma in Spanish Law from the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía in Málaga, Spain.
Mr. David is a law lecturer in addition to his international arbitration practice. He teaches international investment and arbitration law at the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía and is a bar review lecturer in several bar review programs in the Philippines where he teaches Constitutional Law, Private International Law, and Public International Law. He is currently on leave as a professor of law at San Beda University and Far Eastern University in the Philippines.
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Author, The Art of Constitutional Litigation Today: An Examination and Critique of Prevailing Jurisprudence on the Power of Judicial Review, San Beda Law Journal (March 2019) and recipient of the 2019 Office of the Solicitor General Award for Legal Literature.
Author, Encouraging alternative dispute resolution: The use of interim measures of protection in arbitration, Business World (October 2015).
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Representing Guatemala, GST LLP applied to annul an ICSID award on the basis of Bulgarian arbitrator Stanimir Alexandrov's alleged failure to disclose ties with an expert witness – a year after Spain successfully annulled an award based on similar allegations. The state also argues there are contradictions in the decision and it violates the res judicata of a previous award issued in the same dispute.
Represented by GST LLP, Guatemala has lodged a counterclaim in a US$350 million DR-CAFTA dispute with third-party funded mining investors, seeking damages for alleged misrepresentation and a failure to meet environmental commitments. The state alleges that when obtaining their license, Kappes and KCA (the investors that hold licenses for the gold and silver mining projects) “omitted key information” in their environmental impact assessment (EIA), which did not meet international standards and failed to show the effect the projects would have on local water resources.
On December 5th, Jose Angelo David spoke about legal education in the Philippines and the practice of international law and arbitration at the "Law School Forum." Organized by The Ateneo Lex of the Ateneo De Manila University Loyola Schools in the Philippines, the panel was attended by prospective law students. Other speakers included Sorsogon Province Governor Francis Escudero and De La Salle University School of Law Dean Jose Manuel Diokno.
On November 24th, Jose Angelo David presented a virtual conference entitled "Arbitration 101: Fundamentals of Domestic and International Arbitration." He discussed theory, practice, and contemporary issues in domestic and international arbitration. Organized by The Center for Arbitration of the University of Makati School of Law in the Philippines, the event and was attended by Filipino law students and private law firm practitioners.
