Gary J. Shaw

Before joining Pillsbury, Gary clerked for a federal judge in the Southern District of Florida. Prior to that, he worked in offices at the Justice Department and the State Department. He has published extensively in the fields of international arbitration and international law, with works featured in the ICSID Review, the George Washington International Law Review, and Global Arbitration Review (GAR).

• Counsel to the Governments of Pakistan, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and Moldova in various arbitrations and court proceedings.
• Counsel to victims of terrorism in judgment enforcement proceedings under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) and the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA).
• Counsel to transgender individuals in a federal civil rights trial involving denial of Medicaid benefits.
• Counsel to a foreign ministry in an enforcement action before the Southern District of Mississippi.
• Counsel to a Brazilian subfranchisee in an AAA arbitration filed by the subfranchisor.

• External Publications (cont'd)
  • Circuit Split: Is the New York Convention Enforceable in the United States, Lexology (March 2024)
  • Pursuing Claims Against Foreign State-Owned Companies in the United States, ABA Litigation Journal (November 2023)
  • Book Review: ICSID Rules and Regulations 2022: Article-by-Article Commentary, ICSID Review (June 2023)
  • Can Embassies be Sued by Their Employees?, Washington Lawyer (June 2023)
  • Exercising Governmental Authority to Claim Section 1782 Assistance: What Does It Mean?, Journal of International Arbitration (December 2022)
  • A Look at ICSID’s New Transparency Rules, GAR (July 2022)
  • The 2022 ICSID Rules: A Leap Towards Greater Transparency in Investment Arbitration, ICSID Review (June 2022)
  • The Sultan of Sulu Award: Is it Enforceable in the U.S. Under the New York Convention? The Institute for Transnational Arbitration (May 2022)
  • Looking in on Transparency: A 2020 Review of States’ Reactions to the UNCITRAL Rules on Transparency and the Mauritius Convention, 2020 Oxford Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy (November 2021)
  • Overcoming the Tight Window to Vacate Arbitration Awards, Washington Lawyer Magazine (September 2021)
  • Opening the Umbrella: How the Argentine Economic Crisis Shaped the Modern Umbrella Clause, Arbitration in Argentina (Kluwer 2020)
  • Third-Party Funding in Investment Arbitration: How Non-Disclosure Can Cause Harm for the Sake of Profit, Arbitration International, 33 Arb. Int’l 109 (2017)
  • Convicting Inhumanity in Absentia: Holding Trials in Absentia at the International Criminal Court, The George Washington International Law Review (2012) (cited by the International Criminal Court)
• Speaking Engagements
  • At Pillsbury, Gary has hosted events and panel discussions related to international arbitration and sovereign representation. He has also led seminars for young professionals on the topic of investment.