Alvarez Sanz, Borja

Categoría: Colaborador Asociado - Licenciado o Graduado de la Facultad de Derecho (ICADE), Centro de Innovación del Derecho (CID - ICADE)

Professor Borja Álvarez, LL.M., esq. teaches the MIEBL course on Commercial Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution. He practices in the international arbitration & litigation practice at Cuatrecasas, a firm he joined back in 2012. Between 2017-2018, he practiced arbitration in New York-based law firms and graduated from NYU Law (Class of 2017) with a Fulbright Scholarship and the Dean's Award. He graduated in law and political science, with honors, at Carlos III University of Madrid in 2011. Prof. Álvarez is admitted to practice in New York and Spain and is recommended by the Best Lawyers directory in Spain.

Formación académica

Licenciado en Ciencias Políticas y de la Administración, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Licenciado en Derecho, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Áreas de Investigación

Arbitraje Comercial Internacional.

Derecho Internacional Privado.

Arbitraje de Inversiones.

Otras actividades relevantes

Member of the Madrid Bar Association (2011) and admitted to the New York State Bar (2018).

Member of the Spanish Arbitration Club or CEA and of the New York State Bar Association or NYSBA (International Section and Spanish chapter).

Associate lecturer on international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution in the Master on International and European Business Law, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas–ICADE (Madrid).

Guest lecturer on international investment arbitration and litigation in the Master for Admission to the Practice of Law, Universdad de Alcalá (Madrid).

Research and teaching assistant at the New York University School of Law (2016 and 2017).

Author of several publications and articles on international investment arbitration.

Peer reviewer of the ICSID Review–Foreign Investment Law. Graduate editor of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics (2016-2017)..

Assistant editor of the European Journal of International Law (collaborating with Prof. Joseph HH Weiler, editor-in-chief) (2016-2017)..

Frequent participant as a guest arbitrator in moot court competitions.