On January 28, 2009 we launched the Kluwer Arbitration blog with the goal of featuring “posts of the highest possible quality” as an “interactive publication” that would render Kluwer’s arbitration offerings even more complete. As Roger Alford wrote in his first post in January 2009, “[g]iven the nature of international arbitration, it is astonishing that…
Gwen de Vries is Director of International Group Content & Market Development at Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory, U.S. (‘Wolters Kluwer’). She has decades of experience and expertise in information services, focusing on the international legal market, including international arbitration. Among other projects, Gwen leads the team behind Kluwer Arbitration, Wolters Kluwer’s development of content…
In June 2014, at the ITA Workshop in Dallas, I heard a passionate woman presenting her mission of increasing fairness, transparency, accountability, and diversity in the arbitrator selection process, and how she intended to do this. “I want to support this” is what I thought. Roger Alford was so kind to introduce me to this…
As announced in my earlier post we will interview Gary Born at the occasion of his new edition of International Commercial Arbitration. This second edition is an authoritative 4,500 page treatise, in three volumes, providing the most complete and up-to-date available commentary and analysis on all aspects of the international commercial arbitration process. We will…
As you may already know, Gary Born is about to finalize a new edition of his magnum opus, International Commercial Arbitration. With 4,500 pages soon to be published (April 2014) in three comprehensive volumes, this revised work will provide practitioners and academics with the most comprehensive and up-to-date commentary on international commercial arbitration. We are…
It is with great sadness that we at Kluwer received the news of Pieter Sanders’ death. As the founder and inaugural editor of the ICCA Publications, Piet has been crucial for Kluwer’s arbitration content. We will remember him as an inspiring person with many passions in life. To honor him, the general and managing editors…
Early last summer I discussed the idea for a blog on international commercial arbitration with Gary Born, one that would feature posts of the highest possible quality. Later that summer I bumped into Roger Alford at the annual ITA Workshop in Dallas and realised that he was considering the very same idea and had already…
