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Andrew P. Newcombe

Address: 

Faculty of Law, University of Victoria
PO Box 1700 STN CSC
Victoria, British Columbia V8S 4P3
Canada

Phone Number: 
250-721-8161
Fax Number: 
250-721-8146
Email: 
newcombe@uvic.ca
Born: 
1968, Summerside, PEI.
Languages: 
English
Nationalities: 
Canadian
Education: 
B.A. (Hons.), Political Science, University of King’s College, Canada, Graduated 1992
LL.B., University of Victoria, Canada, Graduated 1995
LL.M., University of Toronto, Canada, Graduated 1999
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
Law Society of British Columbia (1997 – present)
Present Position: 
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria
Professional Experience: 

Lawyer, International Arbitration and Public International Law Groups, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Paris, 1999 – 2002.

Articling Student and Barrister and Solicitor, Swinton & Company
(now Miller Thomson), Vancouver, 1996 – 1998.

Foreign Service Officer, Legal Operations Division and South Asia Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Ottawa, 1996.

Professional Associations: 

Associate Editor, ICSID Review—Foreign Investment Law Journal; Board of Directors, Canadian Council on International Law; Foreign Direct Investment International Moot Competition Advisory Board; Editorial Board, Journal of World Investment & Trade

Panels of Arbitrators: 

N/A

Arbitration Experience: 

Chair and party appointed arbitrator in investment treaty claims under UNCITRAL Rules; counsel in commercial and investment treaty arbitrations under ICC, ICSID, SCC and UNCITRAL Rules.

Areas of Specialization: 
Business Law
Contracts
Foreign Investment & Joint Ventures
Investment Treaty
Public International Law
Publications from JURIS: 
Publications: 

A. Newcombe & L. Paradell, Law and Practice of Investment Treaties: Standards of Treatment (Kluwer Law International, 2009).

 

“The Use of General Exceptions in IIAs: Increasing Legitimacy or Uncertainty” in A. De Mestral & C. Lévesque, eds, Improving International Investment Agreements (Routledge, 2012).

 

“Investor Misconduct:  Jurisdiction, Admissibility or Merits” in C. Brown and K. Miles, Evolution in Investment treaty Law and Arbitration (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

 

“The Boundaries of Regulatory Expropriation in International Law” (2005) 20(1) ICSID Rev 1.