CURRICULUM VITAE - FDI Moot

CURRICULUM VITAE
DR. ANASTASIOS GOURGOURINIS
Lecturer in International Law (elected), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of
Law
Special Legal Advisor, Hellenic Ministry of Development, Competitiveness and Shipping,
General Secretariat for Strategic Investments
Research Fellow, Academy of Athens, Bureau of International and Constitutional Institutions
Attorney-at-Law, Member of the Athens Bar Association
Nationality:
Hellenic
Date of birth: 14/7/1979
Contact address:
40-42, Aigeos Str., 10446 - Athens
Telephone: (+30)6988712864
Email:
a.gourgourinis@gmail.com
a.gourgourinis@mnec.gr
EDUCATION
February 2010
Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.) in International Law
University College London, Faculty of Laws
Greek State Scholarship Foundation („IKY‟) Scholar in International Economic Law
Thesis topic: “The normative role of equity and equitable principles in the World Trade
Organization: a study on the fragmentation of international law”
November 2006
Master of Laws (LL.M.) with Distinction (First-class Honours)
University College London, Faculty of Laws
Greek State Scholarship Foundation („IKY‟) Scholar in International Economic Law
August 2005
Summer Course in Public International Law
Hague Academy of International Law
June 2005
Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Law, Upper second-class Honours (ranked 2 nd overall)
University of Athens, Faculty of Law
September 2003
Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Upper second-class Honours
University of Athens, Faculty of Law

PROFESSIONAL & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
August 2011 – present day
Special Legal Advisor, Hellenic Ministry of Development, Competitiveness and Shipping, General
Secretariat for Strategic Investments
January 2011 – June 2011
Special Legal Advisor, Hellenic Ministry of State and Strategic Investments
October 2010 – present day
Research Fellow, Bureau of International and Constitutional Institutions, Academy of Athens,
working under the supervision of Prof. Emmanuel Roucounas, Member and ancien Président of the
Institut de Droit International
March 2006 – present day
Attorney-at-Law, Member of the Athens Bar Association, practicing as an independent consultant
advising on issues of international economic law.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Academic Year 2011 – 2012
Lecturer in International Law (elected), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Faculty of
Law
Academic Year 2010 – 2011
Adjunct Lecturer in International Economic Law, Athens University of Economics and Business,
Department of International and European Economic Studies
Academic Year 2008 – 2009
LL.M. Tutor in the course “WTO and Trade Linkages in the WTO”
University College London, Faculty of Laws
SCHOLARSHIPS & ACADEMIC PRIZES
September 2005 – June 2009
Greek State Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y.) Scholarship awarded for postgraduate and doctoral
research studies in International Economic Law, awarded on a competitive basis (ranked 1 st ).
September 2005
Greek State Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y.) Prize awarded for the overall highest grade obtained in
the Master‟s dissertation for the LL.M. in International and European Law at the University of
Athens Faculty of Law.
SELECT ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
“Reviewing the Administration of Domestic Regulation in WTO and Investment Protection
Law: The International Minimum Standard of Treatment of Aliens as “One Standard to Rule
Them All”?”, Transnational Dispute Management – Special issue covering intersections between investment
treaty law and the WTO world (forthcoming 2011)

“The invocability of countermeasures as a circumstance precluding wrongfulness in the
settlement of international disputes between States and private parties”, in: S. Perrakis (ed.), States
in the 21 st century international community, Ant. N. Sakkoulas Publications (forthcoming 2011).
“The Unitary Character of the General/Particular International Law and Primary/ Secondary
Rules Terminology in a Fragmented International Legal System?”, 22 European Journal of
International Law (2011) (forthcoming)
“Lex Specialis in WTO and Investment Protection Law”, 53 German Yearbook of International Law
(2010), pp. 579-621.
“The Distinction between Interpretation and Application of Norms in International
Adjudication”, 2 Journal of International Dispute Settlement (2011), pp. 31-57.
“Editorial”, 12 International Community Law Review (2010), σελ. 395-396.
“Equity in International Law Revisited (with Special Reference to the Fragmentation of
International Law)”, 103 American Society of International Law Proceedings (2009), σελ. 79-82.
“Delineating the Normativity of Equity in International Law”, 11 International Community Law
Review (2009), σελ. 327–347.
Book review: Chad P. Bown, Self-Enforcing Trade: Developing Countries and WTO Dispute Settlement,
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2009, Extent: 282 pp. ISBN: 978–0815703235, in:
12 International Community Law Review (2010), pp. 291-293.
Book review: Robert MacCorquodale (ed.), Human rights, Aldershot [etc.]: Ashgate/Dartmouth,
2003. Extent: xxiv, 607 pp. ISBN: 0-7546-2159-6, in: Revue hellénique de droit international (2004).
SELECT CONFERENCE PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS
“The fragmenting effect of general secondary law on the implementation of shared
responsibility”, paper to be presented at the Conference on “Foundations of Shared Responsibility in
International Law”, organized by the University of Amsterdam & the Amsterdam Center for
International Law, Amsterdam, 17-18 November 2011.
“Reviewing the Administration of Domestic Regulation in WTO and Investment Protection
Law: The International Minimum Standard of Treatment of Aliens as “One Standard to Rule
Them All”?”, paper to be presented at the Conference on “The Interaction of international investment
law with Other Fields of Public International Law”, organized by the Grotius Centre for International
Legal Studies and the Institute of Public Law of Leiden University, Leiden, 8-9 April 2011.
“Lex Specialis in WTO and Investment Protection Law”, paper presented at the Second Biennial
Global Conference of the Society of International Economic Law, Barcelona, 8-10 July 2010.
“Equity in International Law Revisited (with Special Reference to the Fragmentation of
International Law)”, paper presented at the American Society of International Law 2009 Annual
Meeting ('New Voices Panel: Re-thinking the Sources of International Law'), Washington D.C.,
25-28 March 2009.
“The Legal Narrative of the Proposition of International Law as a 'System' in the Judicial
Settlement of International Disputes: an Analysis of the Normative Scope-type, Function-type
and Process-type Differentiations in the Realm of the International Legal System”, paper

presented at the University of Edinburgh School of Law Legal Theory Discussion Group, Edinburgh, 8
October 2008.
“Equity and Equitable Principles in the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement
Proceedings”, paper delivered at the Second International Graduate Legal Research Conference hosted by
King's College London School of Law, London, 9-10 June 2008.
“Normative attributes of the international legal system vis-à-vis the fragmentation of international
law”, paper delivered at the Research Students Seminars Series of the UCL Faculty of Laws, London, 15
May 2008.
“The Importance of the Distinction Between „Interpretation‟ and „Application‟ of Norms in the
Analysis on the Fragmentation of International Law”, paper delivered at the SOAS Post-Graduate
Colloquium on International Law hosted by the School of African and Oriental Studies Law Faculty,
London, 19-20 January 2008.
VARIA
Appointed and acted as Judge for the Shearman & Sterling International Rounds (Washington D.C.,
22-28 March 2009) as well as for the Dillard Memorial Contest of the 2009 Philip C. Jessup
International Law Moot Court Competition.
Member of the European Society of International Law
Member of the American Society of International Law
Member of the Society of International Economic Law
Member of the International Law Association (Hellenic Branch)
Member of the Hellenic Society of International Law and Internal Relations