Manuel Sánchez Miranda, from Mexico, is the founding partner of De Minimis Law in Geneva and a Fellow at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies' Centre for Trade and Economic Integration. With over fifteen years of experience in WTO law and dispute settlement, he is recognized for his deep expertise in international trade law and evidentiary issues in international adjudication.
He advises governments, multinational corporations, and dispute settlement panels on a wide range of high-level trade issues. He has extensive experience in international dispute resolution, having advised or represented clients in dozens of WTO disputes and numerous NAFTA Chapter XIX and USMCA proceedings. Previously, he led the WTO dispute settlement team at Mexico’s trade remedies authority (Mexico’s Unit of International Trade Practices), and has served as a dispute settlement lawyer with the World Trade Organization’s Legal Affairs Division and at a leading international law firm in Geneva.
He holds a Ph.D. in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, where his dissertation, Rules of Evidence in Public International Law: A Case Study of WTO Dispute Settlement, was awarded magna cum laude distinction. He also earned a Master of Laws and a Certificate in WTO Studies from Georgetown University, and a first law degree from the Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology (ITAM).
His research has been published in top-tier peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of International Economic Law and the Journal of World Trade. He is a frequent peer reviewer for leading publications such as the Asian Journal of International Law and the Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy. He also hosts The Hearsay Evidence Podcast, a legal podcast dedicated to evidentiary law and practice in international courts and tribunals.
Recent peer-reviewed academic publications:
- Manuel Sánchez Miranda, Jorge Miranda, Chronicle of a crisis foretold: how the WTO Appellate Body drove itself into a corner (2023), Journal of International Economic Law, Oxford University Press, Volume 26, Issue 2, United Kingdom.
- Manuel Sánchez Miranda, When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going: Advancing Development Through Governance Indicators at the WTO (2019), in Journal of World Trade, Kluwer Law International, Volume 53, Issue 2, pp. 229–241, The Netherlands.
- Manuel Sánchez Miranda, Liberalization at the Speed of Light: International Trade in Electricity and Interconnected Networks (2018), in Journal of International Economic Law, Oxford University Press, Volume 21, Issue 1, United Kingdom.