STRATOS PAHIS

Stratos Pahis is a Professor of Law and a Co-Director of the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law at Brooklyn Law School. He specializes in international economic law—including trade and investment—international arbitration, public international law, and contracts. His article, BITs and Bonds: The International Law and Economics of Sovereign Debt, was awarded the 2022 Francis Deák Prize by the American Journal of International Law for best article by a younger author. Before joining Brooklyn Law School, Pahis worked in private practice for almost eight years, including as Counsel in the international arbitration group of WilmerHale. He represented clients in dozens of international investment and commercial disputes involving a multitude of governing laws (including English, German, Japanese, Ecuadorian, Uruguayan, Peruvian, Brazilian, and New York), seated in a multitude of jurisdictions (including London, Paris, and New York), and pursuant to a multitude of procedural rules (including ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, ICDR, and JAMS). Pahis has taught and researched international law and trade throughout the Western Hemisphere. He was a John Sloan Dickey Research Fellow at la Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico; the Robert L. Bernstein Fellow at the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva; and a Visiting Researcher at the European University Institute in Florence. He has taught at la Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires, the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, and was on the faculty at Wake Forest University. Most recently, while on the faculty of Brooklyn Law School, he visited at Columbia Law School, where he taught international trade law. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, a Master’s in International Development from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and an A.B., summa cum laude, in Economics from Dartmouth College.