Georgetown Law

Professor Cox Alomar is admitted to the practice of law in the District of Columbia, the State of New York and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Prior to joining the law faculty, Professor Cox Alomar practiced law in some of the most prestigious international law firms in Washington, D.C., acting on behalf of clients on a wide array of dispute resolution and transactional matters. More specifically, he has acted as counsel on eight international arbitrations before the World Bank’s International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) representing, among others, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Republic of Chile, the Republic of the Philippines and Électricité de France.

Scholarly Agenda
Professor Cox Alomar’s scholarly interests range widely, from the constitutional aspects of decolonization in the peripheral jurisdictions of the British, French and Dutch Empires in the postwar period, to the juridical penumbras of bilateral investment treaty interpretation within the framework of investor-state international arbitration.

Books
2021, Oxford U.P. (forthcoming) The Puerto Rico Constitution
2015, Ediciones Callejón En La Encrucijada
2009, Ian Randle Publishers Revisiting the Transatlantic Triangle: The Constitutional Decolonization of the Eastern Caribbean

Articles
La problemática de la cláusula sombrilla en los Acuerdos Cubanos de Promoción y Protección Recíproca de Inversiones, Foreign Investment Law Journal (2019)
Cuba’s Constitutional Moment, Texas Hisp. J. L. & Pol’y (2017)
Investment Treaty Arbitration in Cuba, 48 U. Miami Inter-Am. L. Rev. 1 (2017)
The Reparation Question in the Context of Unlawful Expropriations, Journal of Damages in International Arbitration, Vol. 3 No. 1 (2016)
La Nación en la encrucijada, 84 Rev. Jur. U.P.R. (2015)
Estudio jurídico-normativo sobre la reconstitución del sistema de justicia juvenil de Puerto Rico, 49 Rev. Jur. Univ. Inter. (2015)

Book Chapters
Harvard U.P. (2015) The Ideological Decolonization of Puerto Rico’s Autonomist Movement, in Reconsidering the Insular Cases: The Past and Future of the American Empire (Gerald L. Neuman and Tomiko Brown-Nagin eds.)
Juris Publishing (2015) The Reparation Question in the Context of Unlawful Expropriations, in Investor Treaty Arbitration and Natural Resources

Amici Briefs
Fitisemanu v. United States, et. al.

Academic Presentations
February 26, 2019, George Washington Law School (International Law and Self-Determination)
January 25, 2019, Unión Nacional de Juristas, Cuba (American Conflict of Laws)
December 6, 2018 Universidad del Este, Puerto Rico (The Unincorporated Territories of the Unites States)
November 9, 2018 Université de Bordeaux, France (The Legal Decolonization of Subaltern Peripheries)
October 23, 2018 U.S. Congress (The Contributions of Chancellor Jaime Benítez)
October 18-19, 2018 University of Cartagena, Colombia (Investment Treaty Arbitration)
September 19, 2018 George Washington Law School (What Kavanaugh Means for Civil Rights)
July 12, 2018 Casa de América, Madrid (Puerto Rico’s Constitutional Crisis)
April 13, 2018 Rutgers Law School (The Crisis in Puerto Rico: Citizenship)
February 26, 2018 Georgetown University Law Center (Third Party Funding in International Arbitration)
February 21, 2018 David A Clarke School of Law (UDC) (A Conversation with ICSID’s Under Secretary General)
December 4, 2017 Tulane University Law School (Cuban Constitutionalism in Comparative Context)
November 14, 2017 American University Law School (International Arbitration in the Americas)
November 9, 2017 David A Clarke School of Law (Cuba, Race and Culture)
October 27, 2017 Harvard Law School (An Unsettled Century of U.S. – Puerto Rico Relations)
October 20, 2017 Princeton University (Bankruptcy and Citizenship: Puerto Rico a 21st Century Colony?)
Sept. 29, 2017 Cornell Law School, Ithaca NY (Cuba’s Constitutional Moment)
August 23, 2017 University of Cartagena, Colombia (Comparative Constitutional Law)
June 1, 2017 Institut des Amériques (Paris) (U.S. and E.U. Territories: A Study in Contrasts)
May 12, 2017 Hunter College (CUNY) (Puerto Rico’s Status and Plebiscite)
April 26, 2017 ABA Section of International Law (Puerto Rico’s Status under International Law)
April 6, 2017 National Council of La Raza (100th Anniversary of the Jones Act)
March 3, 2017 Harvard Law School (Cuba’s and Puerto Rico’s Constitutional Moment)
January 30, 2017 Columbia Law School (Cuba’s New Foreign Investment Law)
October 18, 2016 University of Havana (Investment Treaty Arbitration in Cuba)
August 1, 2015 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Conference
February 26, 2015 Juris’ Ninth Annual Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference
September 12, 2014 Cornell University, Latin American Studies Program
February 19, 2014 Harvard Law School