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David A. Gantz

Address: 

University of Arizona, Rogers College of Law
1201 E. Speedway Blvd.
Tucson, Arizona 85721-0176
USA

Phone Number: 
520-490-3004
Fax Number: 
520-621-9140
Email: 
gantz@law.arizona.edu
Born: 
Columbus, Ohio; 1942
Languages: 
English Spanish
Nationalities: 
USA
Education: 
Stanford Law School, JSM, 1970; JD, 1967; Harvard College, AB, 1964
Bar Admission or Professional License: 
Ohio, 1967
Present Position: 
Samuel M. Fegtly Professor of Law and Co-Director, Int’l Trade and Business Law Program
Associated Faculty, Department of Latin American Studies (1993-present)
Professional Experience: 

Attorney, Washington, D.C., 1977-1993; Attorney-Adviser and Asst. Legal Adviser, U.S. Dept. of State, 1970-1977; Law clerk, Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, 1969-1970; USAID Law Project, Costa Rica, 1967-1969.

Professional Associations: 

American Society of International Law; International Economic Law Interest Group.

Panels of Arbitrators: 

ICSID

Arbitration Experience: 

Feldman Karpa v. Mexico (NAFTA, ch. 11; 2002-2003; party-appointed; claimant asserted violations of national treatment and indirect expropriation arising out of a cigarette exporting business), available at http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/16639.pdf.

Cross Border Trucking Services and Investment (NAFTA, ch. 20; 2000-2001; appointed by the governments of Mexico and the United States; Mexico asserted violations of NAFTA, chapters 11 and 12; Mexico prevailed on national treatment and MFN treatment claims regarding both services and investment; available at http://www.sice.oas.org/dispute/nafta/english/U98081ae.asp.

Various proceedings as a binational panelist under US-Canada FTA and NAFTA chapter 19 relating to antidumping and countervailing duty disputes, 1989-1999; appointed by NAFTA governments; affirmed or remanded.

Areas of Specialization: 
Foreign Investment & Joint Ventures
Investment Treaty
Public International Law
Trade
Publications from JURIS: 
Publications: 
Challenges for the United States in Negotiating a Bit with China: Reconciling Reciprocal Investment Protection with Policy Concerns, accepted for publication in the Arizona J. Int’l & Comp. Law (2014), also available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2383919.
 
Resolution of Investor-State Controversies in Developing Countries, 5 Law and Development Review 83 (2012), available at http://www.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1153&context=ldr&z=13....
 
Contrasting Key Investment Provisions of the NAFTA with the United States - Chile FTA, in Investment Law and Arbitration: Past Issues, Current Practice, Future Prospects (Todd Weiler, ed., Transnational Publ.) (2004).
 
Pope & Talbot, Inc. v. Canada [Int’l Decisions], 97 Am. J. Int’l L. 937 (2003).
 
Reconciling Environmental Protection and Investor Rights under Chapter 11 of NAFTA, 31 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. L. Inst.) 10646 (2001).
 
Settlement of Disputes Under the Central American – Dominican Republic – United States Free Trade Agreement, 30 B.C. Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 331 (2007).
 
An Appellate Mechanism for Review of Arbitral Decisions in Investor-State Disputes: Prospects and Challenges, 39 Vanderbilt J. Transnat’l L. 39 (2006).
 
The Evolution of U.S. Views on Investment Protection: From NAFTA to the United States Chile Free Trade Agreement, 19 Am. U. Int’l L. Rev. 679 (2004).