2023 was a bustling year for the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and the field of international arbitration worldwide, marked by significant legal developments and institutional reforms. Reflecting on these strides, today’s post provides a retrospective of some of the most relevant updates from the 2023 ICCA Handbook – a multi-jurisdictional collection of commentary…
It was with deep sadness and a profound sense of loss that we learned of the death of one of the world’s leading arbitrators, Van Vechten Veeder QC – more widely known as V.V. or Johnny Veeder – on 8 March 2020. For nearly three decades, Johnny Veeder lent his unique voice to ICCA’s publications,…
I first met Piet in 2008 when I started working on the ICCA publications. Visiting his house in Schiedam — having been warned that anything you touch might be a piece of art — I made my way very carefully up the stairs (elbows firmly pressed to my sides) to a study filled with books,…
