2017 Year-in-Review: Top 5 in International Arbitration
2017 was a busy year for international arbitration. Taking a walk down memory lane, we saw new players and new industries entering the game, institutions adopting new rules, and we…
2017 was a busy year for international arbitration. Taking a walk down memory lane, we saw new players and new industries entering the game, institutions adopting new rules, and we…
…Mark Backer, Getting a Better Balance on International Arbitration Tribunals, 28 Arbitration INTERNATIONAL 653, 661 at n. 42 (2012). Therein lies the diversity paradox. The key to resolving this paradox…
…of arbitration. One such example is the LCIA’s General Guidelines for the Parties Legal Representatives (2014). The LCIA Guidelines are binding on any counsel who appears in an arbitration administered…
…established, as well as to new voices in the arbitration community. We believe that the Blog reflects the arbitration world, a diverse and unique community, which brings together professionals from…
Issue 34/6 ARTICLES SECTION Mauro Rubino Sammartano, A Second (Quasi-Perfect?) Storm Also in Arbitration? Abstract: Many users of international arbitration, particularly in-house counsel, have repeatedly expressed concern about the lack…
…topics”, such as the separability of the arbitration agreement and competence-competence, are now slightly relegated to the past. One of such controversial circumstances is the recent interest that arbitration has…
…enforcement of an ICSID Award in Spain under the new, reformed, legal framework that encompasses the Civil Procedure Law (LEC) and the Spanish Arbitration Act (SAA). The Current Legal Framework…
…for New York 2013), in Yearbook Commercial Arbitration XXXVIII (2013), at 537-541. ↑4 See for an analysis of the case, M.Paulsson, The 1958 New York Convention in Action (2016 Kluwer),…
…default’. Consequently, disputes arose between the parties, and Satyam invoked the arbitration clause that provided for LCIA arbitration, with laws of State Michigan, United States, as the governing law of…
…which does not have to follow certain arbitration rules. The Opinion allows arbitration in certain locations, with certain arbitration rules and by certain persons, in which certain arbitration rules reflect…
…accepted the DIFC-LCIA Arbitration Centre Award for execution pursuant to Article 7(2) of the Judicial Authority Law (Dubai Law no. 12 of 2004 as amended by Law No., 16 of…
…practitioners often consider when choosing arbitration places are known to be a pro-arbitration legal regime and arbitration-friendly courts. In Korea, The Arbitration Act, which closely modeled the UNCITRAL Model Law,…
…the area was not caused by the Investor’s conduct because its conduct was repeatedly endorsed by governmental authorities. Having found that Decree 032 had an economic impact on the investment,…
…on Legal Assistance and Legal Relations in Civil, Family and Criminal Matters (Minks, 1993). The regional conventions regulate and provide rules on various aspects of legal cooperation on the matters…
…instated clear provisions on relevant topics such as interim measures, the effects of arbitration agreements contained in a company’s bylaws before its shareholders, and arbitration involving public entities. In addition,…
…their dispute to arbitration subject to the rules of the Common Court of Justice and Arbitration (“CCJA”). The CCJA fixed the arbitrators’ fees at €61,000, however, after over a year…
…Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission Hong Kong Arbitration Center (CIETAC) released its Guidelines on Third Party Funding in Arbitration. These guidelines set out certain principles of practice and conduct which…
…dispute settlement mechanism. In negotiating the envisaged Convention, the EC will have to safeguard that the new instrument is compatible with the legal order of the European Union. While there…
…spanned through several rooms, examined various topics: Transparency, privacy and confidentiality in international arbitration, Party selection of arbitrators versus institutional selection in international arbitration, The “Americanization” of international arbitration? Discovery?…
…and negatively affect the funding calculus.1)See Chapter 3: “Litigation Funding in International Arbitration”, in Jonas von Goeler, Third-Party Funding in International Arbitration and its Impact on Procedure, International Arbitration Law…
…Ireland’s Mediation Act 2017”, Sabine Walsh provides a detailed review of Ireland’s new Mediation Act which was signed into law on 2nd October 2017. Sabine examines the provisions which could…
…a new publisher: Wolters Kluwer. We are very excited about our new cooperation, which we consider fits well with our aim to be a first-class journal on international arbitration in…
…in residential land. Specifically, the new government proposes to add residential housing to New Zealand’s foreign investment screening regime. Presumably, it is treating residential housing as a new class of…
…also provide comfort to a party compelled to litigate in a foreign court, perhaps due to a pathological arbitration clause or no arbitration clause at all, that a favorable judgment…