AssociateLONDON
Augusto Garcia Sanjur is an Associate at Zeiler Floyd Zadkovich (London office).
Augusto focuses his practice on investment and commercial arbitrations and litigation. Augusto has a growing practice in the maritime and international trade sectors. Augusto has acted for both States and private companies in arbitrations under leading institutional and ad hoc rules, including ICSID, ICC, and UNCITRAL.
He is a prominent scholar and has won two world writing competitions: the UNIDROIT Writing Competition 2020 and the Young ITA Writing Competition 2022-2023. His articles have been published in peer-reviewed legal journals across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, in publications such as the Uniform Law Review published by Oxford University Press. Augusto regularly lectures on dispute resolution and public speaking in renowned universities and forums. Augusto also assisted in the Restatement of the Law, The U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration.
Augusto works in English (fluent) and Spanish (native).
Professional Experience
Education
Augusto Garcia Sanjur wrote the article Gathering Cross-Border Evidence in Support of Arbitration After ZF Automotive (5(2) ITA in Rev (2023)) together with Michael Arada Greenop.
The article won the 2022-2023 “New Voices in International Arbitration” Young ITA Writing Competition.
The article Full Protection and Security of the Digital Economy co-written by Augusto Garcia Sanjur with Aram Aghababyan was published in the AIADR Journal of International Alternative Dispute Resolution Forum (2022, Volume 2, Issue 9).
Augusto Garcia Sanjur wrote the article UNIDROIT Principles and the COVID-19 Economy, 26(4) Uniform L. Rev. (2021).
The article won the 2020 UNIDROIT COVID-19 Essay Competition.
Augusto Garcia Sanjur’s article The Panama Canal Expansion: Adaptation of Contracts is published in the Arbitration Law Review (Volume 11, Issue 1) of his university, Penn State Law.