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David Weiss is in King & Spalding’s International Arbitration Group.
Mr. Weiss concentrates on investor-state arbitration and international commercial disputes. Mr. Weiss has significant experience in investment disputes, energy disputes, and disputes in Latin America. He has participated in proceedings before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague (PCA).
International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague (PCA).
In 2017, Mr. Weiss was named to Who’s Who Legal: Arbitration – Future Leaders 2017.
Mr. Weiss graduated from The University of Texas School of Law, with honors, where he was a member of the Texas International Law Journal and the International Arbitration Moot Court Team. Mr. Weiss spent one semester of law school at the Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo (USP) in São Paulo, Brazil. Before law school, Mr. Weiss graduated, with Phi Beta Kappa honors, from the University of Richmond with majors in Diplomacy and Political Science. He spent one semester of his undergraduate studies at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Publications
- Overview of Principles Reducing Damages, in Global Arbitration Review - The Guide to Damages in International Arbitration (John A. Trenor, ed., 2016) (co-author with Craig Miles);
- Systematic Advocacy: A Guide to Cross-Examination in International Arbitration, 13 Revista Brasiliera de Arbitragem, Issue 51, pp. 99-132 (2016) (co-author with Harry Burnett);
- Distorted Mirrors: Perceived Disagreements Obfuscate the General Principle of Law that a Heightened Standard of Proof Applies to Corruption Allegations in International Arbitration, in 9 Investment Treaty Arbitration and International Law 291 (Ian A. Laird, Borzu Sabahi, Frederic G. Sourgens, & Todd Weiler, eds., 2016).
Recent Speaking Engagements
- Applicable Law in Environmental Counterclaims, Third Annual Houston Conference on Oil and Gas Investment Arbitration, Houston, USA, September 2016.
- Medidas cautelares en el arbitraje de inversión (Interim Measures in Investment Arbitration), Segundo Congreso Centroamericano de Arbitraje de Inversión, San Salvador, El Salvador, February 2016.
- Burdens and Standards of Proof for Corruption – is the allegation of claimant corruption by a state a sufficient basis on which tribunals may deny an investment claim?, Ninth Annual Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference, Washington DC, USA, February 2015.
- La utilización de la cláusula de la nación más favorecida (Use of the Most-Favored-Nation Clause), Primero Congreso Centroamericano de Arbitraje de Inversión, San Salvador, El Salvador, January 2015.
- Papel das Instituições Arbitrais no Fomento ao Desenvolvimento da Arbitragem (The Role of Arbitral Institutions in Fostering the Development of Arbitration), Primeiro Congresso Pan-Americano de Arbitragem, São Paulo, Brasil, October 2014.
- Relevancia del derecho doméstico en la interpretación de los tratados bilaterales de inversión y su rol como ley aplicable en la solución de controversias inversor-Estado (The Relevance of Domestic Law in the Interpretation of Bilateral Investment Treaties and its Role as the applicable law in Investment Disputes), Segundo Seminario Internacional de Arbitraje de Inversión, Instituto Peruano de Arbitraje, Lima, Perú, October 2014.
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