United States

Arbitration Act, United States

(Conway & Partners)/ /4 Comments

This year, the State of Florida, with significant help from the many international practitioners working in Florida, proposed and passed a bill changing the Florida Arbitration Act to substantially match the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration (“Model Law”). On May 12, 2010, Governor Crist signed into law Bill CS/HB 821 modifying Florida Statutes…

Arbitration Agreements, Arbitration Institutions and Rules, Arbitration Proceedings, Costs in arbitral proceedings, Disclosure, Domestic Courts, United States

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As is well known, Section 1782(a) provides that a “the district court of the district in which a person resides or is found may order him to give his testimony or statement or to produce a document or other thing for use in a proceeding in a foreign or international tribunal”. The applicability of 28…

Arbitration Proceedings, Commercial Arbitration, Enforcement of an arbitration clause, National Arbitration Laws, United States

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WilmerHale

Recent legislative developments in Oklahoma, and a few other U.S. states, reflect a growing mistrust of international and foreign law and legal systems. These proposed statutes and constitutional amendments are one aspect of parochial backlash in the United States and elsewhere against developments in international law and dispute resolution over the past decades. There are…

BIT, Investment protection, United States

(University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law)/ /1 Comment
Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA)

By the end of the second round of negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in San Francisco June 14-18 some observers were concerned that the lack of inter-agency consensus on the protection of foreign investment risks slowing the negotiation of investment issues in the TPP context. If there is no internal U.S. agreement by the…