Blockchain, Metaverse, NFT, Paris Arbitration Week

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As part of the 2022 Paris Arbitration Week, Bird & Bird, with the support of ArbTech and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), held an event on “Blockchain, NFTs, and the metaverse: Is arbitration ready to verse into a new universe?”. Paris-based international arbitration partner Jalal El Ahdab (Partner, Bird & Bird) and IP partner…

Arbitration, Arbitration Agreements, Arbitration Industry, Arbitration Institutions and Rules, Investment Arbitration

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Over the last couple of decades, arbitration, its practical aspects, but also its very notion, have faced severe attacks from a variety of critics: politicians, members of civil society, users, etc. While arbitration practitioners are actively tackling many areas of reform, the majority of these denunciations appear, for the most part, biased and overly simplistic….