Andrei Popovici

Andrei is an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of White & Case in the firm's International Arbitration Group.  He has experience representing corporate and sovereign State clients in investment treaty arbitrations before ICSID pursuant to bilateral investment treaties and the Energy Charter Treaty, in cases that have involved the energy, mining, real estate, and telecommunications industry sectors.  In addition, he advises corporate clients on criminal matters.

Andrei also has experience representing pro bono clients in both civil and criminal matters in state and federal courts, and advising non-profit clients on issues of public international law.  He recently argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on behalf of prisoners challenging the constitutionality of their conditions of solitary confinement.

Before joining White & Case, Andrei clerked for Judge Thomas Johnston on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.  He graduated from Yale University with a degree in Economics and Literature, and received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was an editor on the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. 

During law school, Andrei also worked with Professor George Bermann on researching and drafting the Restatement of the Law, The U.S. Law of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration and interned at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and for Judge Shira Scheindlin on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.